“God rest ye, merry gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay,
For Jesus Christ our Saviour
Was born upon this day.”
Betty did not hear the next verse, because her eyes were shut and she
was fast asleep.
When she waked up in the morning, the first thing she heard was another
Christmas carol.
She slid down the side of the bed and ran to the window.
It was a lovely Christmas morning. The trees and ground and walks were
covered with snow. How it glistened in the sunshine!
The singers were standing in a row under the window. There were seven
of them, and they were all children from the village whom Betty had
seen when she was driving with her mother.
How they were bundled up, and their cheeks were as red as roses!