Yassuh brought her a delicious Crumb; it was wrapped in a sticky paper
covered with his finger-prints, but inside the paper was one of
Avrillia's exquisite napkins of embroidered mist. The First Gunkus,
remembering how she had loved the mountain, brought her a little live
Laugh. He had climbed the mountain and trapped it for her, and made
her a little cage to take it home with. It was very funny to hear it
tittering about inside. The rest of the Gunki had clubbed together and
bought her a gold-headed tuning-fork, so that she might be sure their
answers were in tune. The Snimmy's wife brought her three large onions,
neatly hemmed and tied in a bouquet with purple ribbon; the Snimmy
himself a striped paper bag full of gum-drops. And the Snoodle's
present was too cunning for anything! It was a little silver
plum-extractor. With it a child could extract all the fattest raisins
from her piece of mince-pie or portion of rice pudding without having
to bother with the uninteresting remainder and being reprimanded; for
the ingenious little instrument was invisible to adults. All the other
presents were marked "For Sara, with our congratulations, because she
is older than the Snoodle." But this one was marked, in a round,
childish hand, "For my dear Sara--because she is older than me.
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