Then Aunt Cyrilla rose to the occasion . `` I 've got some emergency rations here , '' she announced . `` There 's plenty for all and we 'll have our Christmas dinner , although a cold one . Breakfast first thing . There 's a sandwich apiece left and we must fill up on what is left of the cookies and doughnuts and save the rest for a real good spread at dinner time . The only thing is , I have n't any bread . '' `` I 've a box of soda crackers , '' said the little mother eagerly . Nobody in that car will ever forget that Christmas . To begin with , after breakfast they had a concert . The khaki boy gave two recitations , sang three songs , and gave a whistling solo . Lucy Rose gave three recitations and the minister a comic reading . The pale shop girl sang two songs . It was agreed that the khaki boy 's whistling solo was the best number , and Aunt Cyrilla gave him the bouquet of everlastings as a reward of merit . Then the conductor came in with the cheerful news that the storm was almost over and he thought the track would be cleared in a few hours . `` If we can get to the next station we 'll be all right , '' he said . `` The branch joins the main line there and the tracks will be clear . '' At noon they had dinner . The train hands were invited in to share it . The minister carved the chicken with the brakeman 's jack-knife and the khaki boy cut up the tongue and the mince pies , while the sealskin lady mixed the raspberry vinegar with its due proportion of water . Bits of paper served as plates .
The train furnished a couple of glasses , a tin pint cup was discovered and given to the children , Aunt Cyrilla and Lucy Rose and the sealskin lady drank , turn about , from the latter 's graduated medicine glass , the shop girl and the little mother shared one XXXXX the empty bottles , and the khaki boy , the minister , and the train men drank out of the other bottle .
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