[Grimne-law] Re and true, with lofty thoughts and high ambitions,

[Braga]

N having finished dressing herself, unfastened the door and hurried out
to see what the Christmas angels had left in the old wooden shoe. The
white snow covered everything--trees, stumps, roads, and pastures--until
the whole world looked like fairy land. Gretchen climbed up on a large
stone which was beneath the window and carefully lifted down the wooden
shoe. The snow tumbled off of it in a shower over the little girl's
hands, but she did not heed that; she ran hurriedly back into the house,
putting her hand into the toe of the shoe as she ran. "Oh, Granny,
Granny!" she exclaimed; "you did not believe the Christmas angels would
think about us, but see, they have, they have! Here is a dear little
bird nestled down in the toe of your shoe! Oh, isn't he beautiful?"
Granny came forward and looked at what the child was holding lovingly in
her hand. There she saw a tiny chick-a-dee, whose wing was evidently
broken by the rough and boisterous winds of the night before, and who
had taken shelter in the safe, dry toe of the old wooden shoe. She
gently took the little bird out of Gretchen's hands, and skilfully bound
his broken wing to his side, so that he need not hurt himself trying to
fly with it. Then she showed Gretchen how to make a nice warm nest for
the little stranger, close beside the fire and when their 
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