Object: A tree ornament

Good morning, boys and girls. I brought this ornament from my Christmas tree to set a proper mood for a little story I would like to tell you. It is about a very poor family who always looked forward to having a Christmas tree. But one year their father lost his job and there simply was no money to buy a tree. The children were most disappointed. Their father tried to ease their disappointment by taking a long piece of wood and drilling some holes in it. There was a neighbor who had planted some beautiful evergreen trees in three even rows on each side of his hous…