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"…What are you looking for?"

"Presents. Five of them." She explained, talking very fast, that no Ray ever came home from a visit without bringing presents. "It's an old family custom," she said.

"Hallelujah!" he exclaimed, shutting the book. "That'll be fun, picking out five presents. I hope you have a brother. There's a corking jack-knife here."

—from Heaven to Betsy by Maud Hart Lovelace

Our "Betsy" came home from her trip yesterday with presents for everyone, in the grand Ray tradition...