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Christmas finds no house on the whole plantation dressed up finer than the gentle room where Old Mauma was born and died. Fresh newspapers bought with newlaid eggs from the crossroads store are pasted on the side walls and cut into scallops to cover the high, narrow mantle-shelf, fringed and sewed on barrel hoops they swing from the dark rafters like great unlighted lanterns. When the last holly wreaths and branches are hung, tin cans holding red paper blossoms are put on the mantel shelf, the floor is swept clean for the last time, and the children hurry home to dress for the "school breaking" (246).

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