The Children Singing Silent Night

"We actually visited this old, skinny lady in the hospital," she says. "She was lying on her back with her eyes closed, and there was the smell of aser in the air." The children came and stood around her bed and stood back; they were saying nothing. Their eyes were wide a and i said, sing to her, sing away in the manger. And at first their voices were all very, very quiet. But the farther they went on singing that odessa wns. Miss odessa's eyes hopped pen and she started looking around  and the children sang louder and louder.