A royal treat, exactly—in the 1860s, Almanzo Wilder got an orange in his stocking in “Farmer Boy,” by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1933): “He pulled out an orange and he pulled out a little package of dried figs. And he thought that was all. He thought no boy had ever had a better Christmas.”
A royal treat, exactly—in the 1860s, Almanzo Wilder got an orange in his stocking in “Farmer Boy,” by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1933): “He pulled out an orange and he pulled out a little package of dried figs. And he thought that was all. He thought no boy had ever had a better Christmas.”