The Wilsons were having dinner. The food was left from their Thanksgiving dinner two days before: turkey soup and turkey meat mixed with potatoes. Eleven-year-old Angelina asked, "Are we having turkey ice cream, too?" Herfatherreplied, "Angelina, have you forgotten that I had no job for a whole year? Now I haveworkagain. You should be verythankful." "I'm sorry I said that about the turkey! But unless I get a new dress, I will not look good for the ChristmasFestival." Angelina murmured.
The Festival was the winter holiday celebration of a group she belonged to: the Avalon Girls' ServiceClub. They wrote cheerful cards for hospital patients. They cooked meals for the homeless. But the Christmas Festival was different. The girls wore party clothes and many people came to see them perform. Angelina had only a plain gray dress that she had worn to the event last year. And now it was a little too short. Angelina appealed to her parents to buy one for her, a beautiful red dress in Forbes' Store. Her mother sighed, “Well, we cannot buy it. We have to be careful. You never know when I might lose my job.”
All hope was not gone. There was a sign in the Forbes store window that said "layaway (分期付款)" . Angelina pulled ten worn dollarbillsfrom her coat pocket. She ran to the store and begged the salesperson, Mrs. Harding, to hold 'her' dress for her. "Ok. But you must come back in two weeks to pay therest." Angelina felt like jumping into the air. She was so happy that she told Mrs.Hardingabout the Avalon Service Club's work and its Christmas party.
Then, Angelina shook and suffered in the cold wind looking for work. Finally, Angelina got a job making new clothing for dolls. Angelina was excellent atsewing. Sure enough, the dolls' dresses turned out beautiful. She got twenty dollars. Still, she was far from having enough money for her dress. She felt helpless as the final payment date arrived.
She returned sadly to Forbes' Store, "I don't have enough money for the dress." Then she saw Mrs. Harding's eyes were red. She looked like she had been crying. She said the store was closing and she was losing her job.
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Suddenly, Mrs. Harding said she would pay the rest of the money so Angelina could have it.
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Outside, Angelina saw a man who looked like Santa Claus was asking people for money to help poor people.
