The Story Girl also got a present from the Awkward Man -- a little , shabby , worn volume with a great many marks on the leaves . `` Why , it is n't new -- it 's an old book ! '' exclaimed Felicity . `` I did n't think the Awkward Man was mean , whatever else he was . '' `` Oh , you do n't understand , Felicity , '' said the Story Girl patiently . `` And I do n't suppose I can make you understand . But I 'll try . I 'd ten times rather have this than a new book . It 's one of his own , do n't you see -- one that he has read a hundred times and loved and made a friend of . A new book , just out of a shop , would n't be the same thing at all . It would n't MEAN anything . I consider it a great compliment that he has given me this book . I 'm prouder of it than of anything else I 've got . '' `` Well , you 're welcome to it , '' said Felicity . `` I do n't understand and I do n't want to . I would n't give anybody a Christmas present that was n't new , and I would n't thank anybody who gave me one . '' Peter was in the seventh heaven because Felicity had given him a present -- and , moreover , one that she had made herself . It was a bookmark of perforated cardboard , with a gorgeous red and yellow worsted goblet worked on it , and below , in green letters , the solemn warning , `` Touch Not The Cup . '' As Peter was not addicted to habits of intemperance , not even to looking on dandelion wine when it was pale yellow , we did not exactly see why Felicity should have selected such a device . But Peter was perfectly satisfied , so nobody cast any blight on his happiness by carping criticism .
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