`` We must get up some Santa Claus for these youngsters , '' said the khaki boy . `` Let 's hang their stockings on the wall and fill 'em up as best we can . I 've nothing about me but some hard cash and a jack-knife . I 'll give each of 'em a quarter and the boy can have the knife . '' `` I 've nothing but money either , '' said the sealskin lady regretfully . Aunt Cyrilla glanced at the little mother . She had fallen asleep with her head against the seat-back . `` I 've got a basket over there , '' said Aunt Cyrilla firmly , `` and I 've some presents in it that I was taking to my nephew 's children . I 'm going to give 'em to these . As for the money , I think the mother is the one for it to go to . She 's been telling me her story , and a pitiful one it is . Let 's make up a little purse among us for a Christmas present . '' The idea met with favour . The khaki boy passed his cap and everybody contributed . The sealskin lady put in a crumpled note . When Aunt Cyrilla straightened it out she saw that it was for twenty dollars . Meanwhile , Lucy Rose had brought the basket . She smiled at Aunt Cyrilla as she lugged it down the aisle and Aunt Cyrilla smiled back . Lucy Rose had never touched that basket of her own accord before . Ray 's boat went to Jacky , and Daisy 's doll to his oldest sister , the twins ' lace handkerchiefs to the two smaller girls and the hood to the baby .
Then the stockings were filled up with doughnuts and jelly cookies and the money was put XXXXX an envelope and pinned to the little mother 's jacket .
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