10 "Useful" Presents According to Dylan Thomas in A Child's Chistmas in Wales

There were the Useful Presents:

1. engulfing mufflers of the old coach days,
2. and mittens made for giant sloths;
3. zebra scarfs of a substance like silky gum that could be tug-o'-warred down to the galoshes;
4. blinding tam-o'-shanters like patchwork tea cozies
5. and bunny-suited busbies
6. and balaclavas for victims of head-shrinking tribes;
7. from aunts who always wore wool next to the skin there were mustached and rasping vests that made you wonder why the aunts had any skin left at all;
8. and once I had a little crocheted nose bag from an aunt now, alas, no longer whinnying with us.
9. And pictureless books in which small boys, though warned with quotations not to, would skate on Farmer Giles's pond and did and drowned;
10. and books that told me everything about the wasp, except why.