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About the book
This American fiction is a story of a poor girl thirteen-year-old girl called Janet. The story begins with Janet telling a woman how she got the pretty stockings she was wearing. She explained how the Bishop asked her to come to the church on Christmas night and when she did go there, he gifted her a beautiful pair of stockings. Each stocking had a silver dollar in the toe and was filled with candy, tied around the top with a blue ribbon to keep the candy inside. She told them that while giving her the stockings, the Bishop said, «Remember, keep yourself pure and clean to your life's end.» Janet has a tough time interpreting what the Bishop meant by that. The rest of the story circles the events that follow. This is a well-written story by Louise Élise Gibbons, who has done an incredible job describing the miseries of slums.