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A young princess wakes her nanny and demands to see her Christmas presents, but there is only one, a small locked bag. Suddenly, the princess sees the Christmas angel, who tells the princess how to open the bag. They fly through the air and talk about the true meaning of Christmas. They stop outside a small cottage, where a small boy tells his mother he is cold and hungry, and she tells him to give thanks for what they do have. The princess asks to go home to ask her father to help this family. The Christmas angel says the princess can help them herself, and suddenly her small bag is opened just a little, exposing some gold coins, which she throws through the window to the mother and boy. The princess and the Christmas angel stop at a high attic room, where children of all ages crowd around a young woman who spends her free time teaching them to read because they are too poor to go to school. Suddenly the princess's bag is opened a bit more, exposing more gold coins. She wonders if she could spend the money on a new necklace for herself, and the bag closes again. When she decides to give the money to the children, the bag opens again, and she throws the money through the window, and the children talk about how to spend it. The princess decides she wants to give all the remaining money to others, but when she looks in her bag, all she sees is a beautiful pearl necklace, and she decides to break the necklace and drop the pearls down to earth, for others to find.

Concludes with a message from Regina Burke: let's not forget that our neighbors are just like us.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

WNYC archives id: 69641
Municipal archives id: LT530