Two weeks before Christmas，two little girls were walking down the street hey saw old Harry，who was on his knees pulling weeds from around a tree. He wore a pair of worn gloves．His fingers were sticking out the ends，blue from the cold. They stopped to talk to him.
Harry told them he （get) the yard in shape as a Christmas gift for his mother，who had died several years before.“My mother was all I had. She loved her yard and trees，so I do this for her every Christmas."
His -words touched the girls and soon they（join) him，pulling weeds. When they finished，Harry pressed a coin into each of their hands.“I wish I could pay you more，but that's all rve got right now，”he said.
The girls had often passed his house，and they remembered that it had always been poor condition. No decorations to add cheeriness were anywhere in sight.
As they walked on，the coin in one little girl's hand seemed to burn a hole of （guilty）．The next day she called her friends．they agreed to put their coins in a jar marked“Harry's Christmas Gift"．Then they began to seek out small jobs to earn more．Every coin they earned went into the jar.
Finally，they had enough （buy）new gloves. Christmas Eve found them on Harry's doorstep singing carols. They presented him with the gloves. With（tremble）hands，he held the gloves to his face and wept. No doubt he once again feltlove of others as the girls reached out to him.