Hiram's Gift

Hiram builds fires to heat the two-room schoolhouse and earns dimes for his trouble. With aheart full of hope, he saves his money in a sock and thumbs through a catalog looking at ashiny fiddle, a maple fiddle, the kind of fiddle he dreamed of playing. Tragedy strikes. Hiramuses the dimes to help his family and sets his hopes on a gift from the Christmas elves thatsend a present to every child in school. Hiram delights in the simple presents hereceives and those gifts change the course of his life.