Mrs Jones longs for a little girl – so much so that this year she has bought and decorated a tiny tree, defying her husband's gentle mockery. The third strand in the story belongs to Mr and Mrs Jones, a policeman and his wife in attractive, redheaded middle age, who have no children. Then Holly and Ivy see each other through the shop window. Appalled, Holly wishes strenuously to be purchased – but no one comes to buy her, and it's already closing time on Christmas Eve.
If the toys are not sold today, Abracadabra threatens, they will be "put into storage" – a dark, cobwebby prospect overseen by the predatory bird himself. Meanwhile, Holly, a pearly-toothed, brown-eyed porcelain beauty in a scarlet party dress, makes her debut in Mr Blossom's toyshop, under the minatory eye of Abracadabra the owl.
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