about
seven P.M.
Says he was stung on the first one , and he 's going to get his money back before he goes in any deeper . It goes down about fifty cents a year in price , and last year Jim Reebe almost bought it at four dollars and seventy-five cents for Selma Snood . We have hopes of him this year -- unless he and Selma quarrel or get married , either of which will be fatal . No , we have our troubles , same as you do , and Homeburg is full , on the day before Christmas , of worried fathers who duck into the stores about seven P.M. and try to buy enough stuff to eat up a ten dollar bill before the doors close . But that 's a minor detail . What makes me love our Christmas is its communism . Christmas is n't a family rite in Homeburg .