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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/28125-h.zip b/28125-h.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..8bd697a --- /dev/null +++ b/28125-h.zip diff --git a/28125-h/28125-h.htm b/28125-h/28125-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d2ebea --- /dev/null +++ b/28125-h/28125-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1606 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> + +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> + <head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> + <title> + Dear Santa Claus—Charming Holiday Stories for Boys and Girls, by Fannie E. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Dear Santa Claus + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28125] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEAR SANTA CLAUS *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards, Claudine Corbasson and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net +(This file was produced from images generously made +available by Florida's Publication of Archival, Library +& Museum Materials (PALMM)) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + <!-- page 01 --> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full" /> +<p> </p> + +<p class="illustration"><a name="cover" id="cover"></a> +<img class="img2" src="images/cover.jpg" alt="COVER" width="377" height="550" /></p> + +<p class="illustration"><a name="frontis00" id="frontis00"></a> +<img class="img1" src="images/frontis00.png" alt="" width="287" height="400" /></p> + +<h1>Dear Santa Claus</h1> + +<h3>Charming Holiday Stories<br /> +for Boys and Girls</h3> + +<p class="illustration"><a name="frontis01" id="frontis01"></a> +<img src="images/frontis01.png" alt="" width="300" height="217" /></p> + +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<hr class="tiny" /> + +<h4>HANDSOMELY ILLUSTRATED</h4> + +<hr class="tiny" /> + +<div class="center">Copyright, 1901, by W. B. Conkey Company</div> + +<p> </p> +<hr class="tiny" /> + +<div class="center">CHICAGO<br /> +W. B. CONKEY COMPANY<br /> +PUBLISHERS</div> + +<p> </p> +<hr class="mid" /> + +<div class="maintext"> + +<br /> +<br /> + +<p class="illustration"><a name="page00" id="page00"></a> +<img src="images/page00.jpg" alt="" width="328" height="450" /></p> + +<br /> +<br /> + +<p class="illustration"><a name="page01a" id="page01a"></a> +<img src="images/page01a.png" alt="" width="399" height="60" /></p> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img src="images/page01b.png" alt="" width="287" height="358" /> +</td> +<td> +<p class="cap">'TWAS the night before Christmas, and all through the house,</p> +<p class="hang">Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.</p> +<p class="hang">The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,</p> +<p class="hang">In the hope that St. Nicholas soon would be there.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td class="verse"> +<p>The children were nestled all snug in their beds,</p> +<p>While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.</p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page01c.png" alt="" width="170" height="293" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + <!-- page 02 --> +<p> </p> +<p class="illustration"><a name="page02" id="page02"></a> +<img class="img1" src="images/page02.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="416" /></p> + + <!-- page 03 --> +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img src="images/page03a.png" alt="" width="343" height="231" /> +</td> +<td class="verse"> +<p>And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap,</p> +<p>Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap;</p> +<p>When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,</p> +<p>I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td class="verse"> +<p>Away to the window I flew like a flash,</p> +<p>Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.</p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page03b.png" alt="" width="182" height="260" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + + <!-- page 04 --> +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img src="images/page04a.png" alt="" width="280" height="260" /> +</td> +<td class="verse"> +<p>The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow</p> +<p>Gave the lustre of midday to objects below—</p> +<p>When what to my wondering eyes should appear</p> +<p>But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer,</p> +<p>With a little old driver so lively and quick,</p> +<p>I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td class="verse"> +<p>More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,</p> +<p>And he whistled and shouted and called them by name—</p> +<p>"Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer! Now, Vixen!</p> +<p>On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Dunder and Blixen!</p> +<p>To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall!</p> +<p>Now, dash away! Dash away! Dash away! All!"</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td class="verse"> +<p>As dry leaves before the wild hurricane fly,</p> +<p>When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,</p> +<p>So up to the house-top the coursers they flew</p> +<p>With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas, too.</p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page04b.png" alt="" width="286" height="169" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + <!-- page 05 --> +<p> </p> +<p class="illustration"><a name="page05" id="page05"></a> +<img class="img1" src="images/page05.png" alt="" width="270" height="391" /></p> + + <!-- page 06 --> +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td class="verse"> +<p>And then in a twinkling I heard on the roof</p> +<p>The prancing and pawing of each tiny hoof.</p> +<p>As I drew in my head, and was turning around,</p> +<p>Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.</p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page06.png" alt="" width="346" height="430" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + + <!-- page 07 --> +<p> </p> +<p class="illustration"><a name="page07" id="page07"></a> +<img class="img1" src="images/page07.png" alt="" width="245" height="400" /></p> + <!-- page 08 --> +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img src="images/page08a.png" alt="" width="285" height="294" /> +</td> +<td class="verse"> +<p>He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot,</p> +<p>And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;</p> +<p>A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,</p> +<p>And he looked like a pedlar just opening his pack.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td class="verse"> +<p>His eyes—how they twinkled! His dimples, how merry!</p> +<p>His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry;</p> +<p>His droll little mouth was drawn up in a bow,</p> +<p>And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td class="verse"> +<p>He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,</p> +<p>And filled all the stockings—then turned with a jerk,</p> +<p>And laying his finger aside of his nose,</p> +<p>And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.</p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page08b.png" alt="" width="341" height="258" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + <!-- page 09 --> +<p> </p> +<p class="illustration"><a name="page09" id="page09"></a> +<img class="img1" src="images/page09.png" alt="" width="251" height="400" /></p> + + <!-- page 10 --> +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td class="verse"> +<p>He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,</p> +<p>And away they all flew, like the down of a thistle;</p> +<p>But I heard him exclaim ere he drove out of sight,</p> +<p>"Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"</p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page10.png" alt="" width="347" height="235" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + + <!-- page 11 --> +<br /> +<br /> +<p class="illustration"><a name="page011a" id="page011a"></a> +<img src="images/page11a.png" alt="" width="360" height="56" /></p> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p class="cap">'TWAS the night after Christmas, and all through the house</p> +<p class="hang">Not a creature was stirring—excepting a mouse.</p> +<p class="hang">The stockings were flung in haste over the chair,</p> +<p class="hang">For hopes of St. Nicholas were no longer there.</p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page11b.png" alt="" width="450" height="315" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td class="verse"> +<p>The children were restlessly tossing in bed,</p> +<p>For the pie and the candy were heavy as lead;</p> +<p>While mamma in her kerchief, and I in my gown,</p> +<p>Had just made up our minds that we would not lie down,</p> +<p>When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,</p> +<p>I sprang from my chair to see what was the matter.</p> +<p>Away to the window I went with a dash,</p> +<p>Flung open the shutter, and threw up the sash.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + + <!-- page 12 --> +<p> </p> +<p class="illustration"><a name="page12" id="page12"></a> +<img class="img1" src="images/page12.jpg" alt="" width="295" height="400" /></p> + + <!-- page 13 --> +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img class="img" src="images/page13a.png" alt="" width="417" height="194" /> +</td> +<td class="verse"> +<p>The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,</p> +<p>Gave the lustre of noon-day to objects below,</p> +<p>When what to my long anxious eyes should appear</p> +<p>But a horse and a sleigh, both old-fashioned and queer;</p> +<p>With a little old driver, so solemn and slow,</p> +<p>I knew at a glance it must be Dr. Brough.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td class="verse"> +<p>I drew in my head, and was turning around,</p> +<p>When upstairs came the Doctor, with scarcely a sound.</p> +<p>He wore a thick overcoat, made long ago,</p> +<p>And the beard on his chin was white with the snow.</p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page13b.png" alt="" width="283" height="370" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + <!-- page 14 --> +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td class="verse"> +<p>He spoke a few words, and went straight to his work;</p> +<p>He felt all the pulses,—then turned with a jerk,</p> +<p>And laying his finger aside of his nose,</p> +<p>With a nod of his head to the chimney he goes:—</p> +<p>"A spoonful of oil, ma'am, if you have it handy;</p> +<p>No nuts and no raisins, no pies and no candy.</p> +<p>These tender young stomachs cannot well digest</p> +<p>All the sweets that they get; toys and books are the best.</p> +<p>But I know my advice will not find many friends,</p> +<p>For the custom of Christmas the other way tends.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td class="verse"> +<p>The fathers and mothers, and Santa Claus, too,</p> +<p>Are exceedingly blind. Well, a good-night to you!"</p> +<p>And I heard him exclaim, as he drove out of sight:</p> +<p>"These feastings and candies make Doctors' bills right!"</p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page14.png" alt="" width="244" height="350" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<br /> +<br /> + <!-- page 15 --> +<p class="illustration"><a name="page15a" id="page15a"></a> +<img src="images/page15a.png" alt="" width="359" height="76" /></p> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p class="cap">ONE summer, Nelly's auntie, who lived in the country, asked her to come +and make a good, long visit, and you may be sure Nelly was very glad +to go.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img src="images/page15b.png" alt="" width="236" height="125" /> +</td> +<td> +<p>She had always lived in the city, and she thought it great fun to feed +the hens and chickens and calves, and to watch all the animals and +talk to them.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p>Cousin Fred was about her own age, so it was very pleasant for them to +play together. Fred took her around the farm and told her about all +the pets, and they soon knew her as well as though she had always +lived there.</p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page15c.png" alt="" width="228" height="279" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p>Milly, one of the horses, would eat out of a spoon, and Nelly and her <!-- page 16 --> +cousin took turns feeding her. When they went away, she whinnied for +them to come back again, but Nelly said, "You shall have some more +to-morrow; you mustn't be a piggy-wiggy."</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img src="images/page16a.png" alt="" width="217" height="119" /> +</td> +<td> +<p>One day Fred and Nelly gathered flowers in the woods, and Nelly made a +wreath to put upon her cousin's head.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p>"It seems just like fairyland out here," she said. "Let's play it is +fairyland, and I'm a fairy and you're a brownie."</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p>Fred thought that a very good game indeed, and they played that they +lived in the flowers and could change themselves into birds, or +squirrels, or people, whenever they wished.</p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page16b.png" alt="" width="188" height="163" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p>But bye and bye they got hungry, and they couldn't live on the honey +from the flowers, as real fairies might; so they spread out the lunch +which they had brought and decided to be children again. It seemed as +though they had never tasted anything quite so good as that lunch.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img src="images/page16c.png" alt="" width="137" height="114" /> +</td> +<td> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page16d.png" alt="" width="217" height="110" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + + <!-- page 17 --> +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p>One day Speckle, the big hen, made a great fuss because her brood of +ducklings went into the water. She flew about here and there on the +bank of the stream, and called to them to come back, but the ducklings +were having great fun and paid no attention at all to her.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img src="images/page17a.png" alt="" width="152" height="153" /> +</td> +<td> +<p>Chanticleer seemed to think they were not very well behaved and needed +a good scolding; so he began to strut about and talk at the top of his +voice; but the ducklings had their swim and came out as happy as could +be.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p>Nelly thought the little chicks were prettier.</p> + +<p>Shep, the dog, could hunt eggs as well as they could, and he always +helped them. After he had found a nest, he took each egg carefully in +his mouth, and laid it in the basket which the children had brought; +and he never broke one.</p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page17b.png" alt="" width="292" height="269" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"><!-- page 18 --> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p>"I believe he could count them if he tried," said Nelly.</p> + +<p>"Of course he can count," said Fred. "When we send him after the cows, +he never leaves one behind, nor the sheep either. If one strays away, +he hunts for it until he finds it. But he wouldn't hurt one of them +for anything, no matter how hard he had to work to bring them in."</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> <!-- page 18 --> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img src="images/page18.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="350" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p>They watched the milking, and drank all the warm milk they wanted; and +one day they helped churn.</p> + +<p>"I believe I could make butter, too," said Nelly.</p> + +<p>"Of course you could, dear," said her auntie; "it wouldn't take long +for you to learn, either."</p> + +<p>Nelly was delighted with this, and wanted to begin right away.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + <!-- page 19 --> +<br /> +<br /> + +<p class="illustration"><a name="page19a" id="page19a"></a> +<img src="images/page19a.png" alt="" width="432" height="104" /></p> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p class="cap">LAURA, Eva, and Susy are three sisters who are very fond of fairy +stories, as most little girls are.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img src="images/page19b.png" alt="" width="250" height="166" /> +</td> +<td> +<p>Laura is the oldest, and reads the +stories aloud to the others, while Humpty-Dumpty, the kitten, sits +near and listen—or, at least, he seems to be listening.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p>But sometimes he gets tired of sitting still and jumps right up on +Laura's book, so she has to stop. Then they all have a great frolic, +and very often little brother Harry comes in to join in the fun, and +they play until they are tired out.</p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page19c.png" alt="" width="232" height="307" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + <!-- page 20 --> +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p>One story which they like very much is about a little girl who was +lost in the woods and wandered about for a long, long time, until she +was so tired that she fell asleep on the ground, with the flowers all +around her and the birds singing.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img src="images/page20a.png" alt="" width="350" height="157" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p>But the birds were really fairies and were watching over her to see +that she was not harmed, and they sang to her on purpose to lull her +to sleep, for they knew how tired she was.</p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page20b.png" alt="" width="248" height="170" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img src="images/page20c.png" alt="" width="265" height="189" /> +</td> +<td> +<p>And when she wakened, she understood what they said to her and knew +they were fairies, and they led her out of the forest and all the way +to her home. They asked her to come and visit them again, too, and <!-- page 21 --> +promised to take good care of her.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img src="images/page21a.png" alt="" width="270" height="183" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img src="images/page21b.png" alt="" width="127" height="74" /> +</td> +<td> +<p>Another of their favorite stories is about the flower fairies who +come and dance and sing for little children in the forest when it is +very still and the sun is shining brightly.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p>Laura says she thinks she has almost heard them sometimes, talking to +the birds; and they often sit very quiet indeed, with their dollies +hugged tightly in their arms, and listen and watch.</p> + +<p>Once Eva went to sleep when she was watching like this, out in the +grove back of her home, and she dreamed that a fairy came and danced +for her and sang the sweetest songs you ever heard.</p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page21c.png" alt="" width="276" height="354" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p>"She was just like a little girl, too," said Eva. "She was bare-footed<!-- page 22 --> +and hadn't any hat on her head, and she wanted me to come and dance +with her."</p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page22a.png" alt="" width="334" height="307" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img src="images/page22b.png" alt="" width="101" height="186" /> +</td> +<td> +<p>"Did you?" asked little Susy, breathlessly.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +"Of course!" said Eva. "We danced and danced and had just a lovely +time together, and then I had to go and wake up." +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page22c.png" alt="" width="334" height="250" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p>"Oh, oh, oh, I wish I could have a dream like that!" cried little Susy;<!-- page 23 --> + and she went and lay down on the couch right away, to see if she +couldn't go to sleep and dream about fairies, too.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img src="images/page23a.png" alt="" width="381" height="165" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<img src="images/page23b.png" alt="" width="178" height="100" /> +</td> +<td> +<p>But when she wakened, she said that all she could dream about was just +a lot of little frogs sitting up very straight on the bank of a brook, +with a great, big frog on a great, big log talking to them.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<table summary="text and illustration"> +<tbody><tr> +<td> +<p>"I think that was a lovely dream," said Laura; and then little Susy +was happy.</p> + +<p>"Now let's read some more stories," said Eva, and perhaps next time +we'll see some really-truly fairies.</p> +</td> +<td> +<img src="images/page23c.png" alt="" width="219" height="304" /> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +<p class="right"><i>—Fannie E. Ostrander.</i></p> + +<br /> +<br /> + <!-- page 24 --> +<p class="illustration"><a name="page24" id="page24"></a> +<img class="img1" src="images/page24.jpg" alt="" width="370" height="400" /></p> + + <!-- page 25 --> +<p> </p> +<img class="floatl" src="images/page04a.png" alt="" width="280" height="260" /> + +<p>Kate and Dick had a good many pets. There were Frisk and Ponto and +Fuss and another little dog called Fly. There was the pony, Fleet, and +the newest pet of all was a dear little colt that Kate's papa had +given to her for her very own because the pony she rode really +belonged to Dick.</p> + +<p>This colt she had named Fairy, and she took great care of it. Fly and +Fairy were good friends, and they had a funny way of looking at each +other that made the children laugh.</p> + +<p>Then the baby that they all loved lived here. Her name was May, and +she was Kate's sister. She was a sweet little thing, just beginning to +walk and to talk. She could say "chicky" quite plainly, and she liked +to toddle out and watch the little girls feed the chickens.</p> + +<p>But I can't begin to tell you all the good times the children had that +summer. They were happy all the time, and grandma said they were so +good that it was really no trouble at all to have them there.</p> + + <!-- page 26 --> +<p> </p> +<img class="floatl" src="images/page06.png" alt="" width="346" height="430" /> + +<p>But at last one Saturday evening, papa, who always came out from the +city to spend Sunday with them, said they must start for home the next +Monday.</p> + +<p>They did want to stay longer, but papa laughed and said, "Christmas is +coming now, you know, and Santa Claus couldn't bring things way out +here as easy as he could get them to you in town."</p> + +<p>Then the children began to think of Christmas and to tease grandpa and +grandma to come and spend it with them, and of course papa and mamma +teased too; so at last they promised, and the children said good-by to +their pets and to Kate and May and Dick and went away shouting?</p> + +<p>"Good-by, grandma. Now remember you promised!"</p> + <!-- page 27 --> + + <!-- page 28 --> +<p> </p> +<p>After the children reached home they talked of grandma's nearly all +the time when they were not talking of Christmas, and Bessie wrote a +letter to Santa Claus asking him to be sure and bring a pair of his +nicest gold-bowed spectacles for grandma because she had lost her old +ones, and not to forget a gold-headed cane for grandpa.</p> +<p> </p> + +<p class="illustration"><a name="page27" id="page27"></a> +<img class="img" src="images/page27.jpg" alt="" width="309" height="400" /></p> + + +<p> </p> +<img class="floatr" src="images/page28.png" alt="" width="284" height="293" /> + +<p>At last Christmas Eve came, and grandma and grandpa were there, and +the children hung up their stockings, and Bessie said that grandma and +grandpa must be sure and hang up theirs too; then, after they had gone +to bed, the smaller children whispered for a long time about Santa +Claus and listened to hear his sleigh bells on the roof.</p> + +<p>"I don't see how he can get down the chimney," whispered Bessie. "You +know he's so fat in all his pictures."</p> + +<p>"Maybe he takes off his coat," whispered Clara, "then he wouldn't be +quite so big." But she didn't see how he could get down the chimney, +either.</p> + +<p>Once or twice they were sure they heard him on the roof, and they<!-- page 29 --> +covered up their heads so he wouldn't think they were peeping, and at +last they went to sleep before they knew it.</p> + +<p>Willie and Tom were just as anxious as the little girls, and whispered +just as much, and they all dreamed of Santa Claus.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="illustration"><a name="page29" id="page29"></a> +<img src="images/page08b.png" alt="" width="341" height="258" /></p> + +<p>Bessie and Clara were the first ones up. They shouted with delight +when they looked in their stockings. There was a dear little dolly in +each stocking—a dolly with real hair and eyes that opened and shut, +and the dollies were dressed very prettily. They were too large to go +into the stockings, so they just stood in them, looking as though they +were ready to jump down.</p> + +<p>Willie found the funniest jumping-jack in his stocking, and Tom pulled +a flute out of his. He had everybody awake in no time after that.</p> + +<p>Grace was happy when she looked in her stocking. There was a little<!-- page 30 --> +plush box in it, and in the box was a lovely gold watch; while Harry +found just what he wanted too—a pair of skates.</p> + +<p>But grandma and grandpa were surprised when they discovered the +spectacles and the cane.</p> + +<p>"Who in the world could have told Santa what we wanted most?" said +grandma.</p> + +<p>Grandpa said he couldn't understand it either, and then Bessie had to +tell the secret.</p> + +<p>She ran up to each of them and whispered, "I wrote to him myself!"</p> + +<p>Then how they kissed her.</p> + +<p>All day long the library was kept closed; not a child was allowed to +peep in. But what fun they had all day, and what a Christmas dinner, +with a plum pudding as big as a pumpkin.</p> + +<p>In the evening the library door was opened, and there was the +prettiest Christmas tree, all blazing with candles and hung with +pretty things; while piled around it were books and toys and +everything that everybody wanted most.</p> + +<p>And just think of it! There, lying in front of the tree and looking as +happy as the children themselves, was a great, big, noble dog, who got +up and came to meet them as they trooped in.</p> + +<p>"Ooo! Ooo! Ooo!" cried Bessie, bending to pat his head. "What's your<!-- page 31 --> +name, you great, big darling? Ooo! Ooo! Whose is he, papa?"</p> + +<p>"Ask Santa Claus," said papa; and sure enough, Santa Claus stepped out +from behind the tree.</p> + +<p>"His name is on his collar," said Santa Claus. Then the children all +rushed for him for they knew it was grandpa dressed up like Santa Claus.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="illustration"><a name="page31" id="page31"></a> +<img src="images/page10.png" alt="" width="350" height="234" /></p> + +<p>Afterwards Bessie spelled out the dog's name, "C-a-r-l-o," on his +collar, and her own name on a card which was tied to it, and she was +the happiest little girl in the world.</p> + +<p>But everyone else was happy too, and they all said it was the very +merriest Christmas they had ever seen, and Clara and Bessie dreamed +that Santa Claus told them he himself had never had so much fun before.</p> + +<p class="right"><i>—Fannie E. Ostrander.</i></p> + <!-- page 32 --> +<br /> +<br /> +<p class="illustration"><a name="page32a" id="page32a"></a> +<img src="images/page32a.png" alt="" width="436" height="68" /></p> + +<br /> +<p class="cap">ONE summer Alma and her brother Philip spent their vacation with their +auntie, who lived in a beautiful village, so near the pretty country +that they could take a ride out into it on their wheels, at any time +they wished.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="illustration"><a name="page32b" id="page32b"></a> +<img src="images/page32b.png" alt="" width="421" height="258" /></p> + +<p>They both rode very well indeed, and they were always finding pretty +little spots along the road-side, where they played camp out; for +auntie let them take a lunch if they wanted to, and the air was so +fresh and pure that they were hungry almost all the time.</p> + + <!-- page 33 --> +<p> </p> +<img class="floatl" src="images/page33a.png" alt="" width="119" height="103" /> + +<p>One morning they started off quite early with their wheels and their +lunch, and they rode out into the country on a pretty road where they +had never been before.</p> + +<p> </p> +<img class="floatr" src="images/page33b.png" alt="" width="195" height="101" /> + +<p>It had great trees along the side and a little river winding along +with it, and they saw the cattle and horses in the fields, and the +hens and chickens and turkeys and geese along the road-side, and once +they got off their wheels to talk to a pretty bossy and her calf that +were very near the fence.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="illustration"><a name="page33c" id="page33c"></a> +<img src="images/page33c.png" alt="" width="344" height="149" /></p> + +<p>The bossy was a little afraid they might hurt her baby, so she wasn't +quite friendly. But she didn't try to drive them away.</p> + +<p> </p> +<img class="floatr" src="images/page33d.png" alt="" width="167" height="94" /> + + <!-- page 34 --> +<p>At one side of a farm-house near, a big dog was lying in his kennel, +and a great black cat came up to him very slyly and tapped him on the +nose with one paw. It was funny to see the dog jump up.</p> + +<p> </p> +<img class="floatl" src="images/page34a.png" alt="" width="169" height="160" /> + +<p>The birds sang, and the hens and chickens talked to each other, and +once or twice they stopped to let a flock of geese cross the road in +front of them.</p> + +<p> </p> +<img class="floatr" src="images/page34b.png" alt="" width="144" height="112" /> + +<p>Then they came upon a big flock of turkeys, and the gobbler put on +airs and pretended he was going to stop them; but they flew past and +laughed at him.</p> + +<p> </p> +<img class="floatl" src="images/page34c.png" alt="" width="126" height="107" /> + +<p>By the side of the road in one place, a big, fat, clean-looking pig +was standing, sunning himself; but when he saw them, he ran away, +squealing.</p> + +<p> </p> +<img class="floatr" src="images/page34d.png" alt="" width="172" height="100" /> + +<p>"You needn't run from us," Philip called after him; "we don't want any +pork to-day—we've got chicken for our lunch."</p> + +<p> </p> +<img class="floatl" src="images/page34e.png" alt="" width="120" height="109" /> + +<p>"Yes," said Alma, "and nice, fresh strawberries, and everything good."</p> + +<p> </p> +<img class="floatr" src="images/page35a.png" alt="" width="137" height="121" /><!-- page 35 --> + +<p>They saw a big dog lying near a chicken-coop, with the chickens +running over him just as they pleased, and Philip called out again,"Be +careful, you little fellows, or you might happen to run down his +throat."</p> + +<p> </p> +<img class="floatl" src="images/page35b.png" alt="" width="161" height="99" /> + +<p>They got off their wheels and walked for a little while just for fun; +and all at once, as they were passing a barn, Alma cried, "Look! Did +you see that cat after the mouse?"</p> + +<p>Philip said he didn't; but pretty soon Mrs Pussy came out.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="illustration"><a name="page35c" id="page35c"></a> +<img src="images/page35c.png" alt="" width="353" height="167" /></p> + +<p>"You didn't get it, did you?" said Alma. "Well, you're fat enough now; +you don't need to catch mice."</p> + +<p>They stopped to eat their lunch under a clump of trees not very far +from a pleasant farm-house. There was a cunning little fat dog lying +in front of the house, and as they watched him, up came a bee and lit +on his nose.</p> + +<p> </p> +<img class="floatr" src="images/page36a.png" alt="" width="179" height="126" /><!-- page 36 --> +<p>The little doggy jumped up and barked at the bee; then he sat down and +put up his nose in a friendly way, to see what it was.</p> + +<p> </p> +<img class="floatl" src="images/page36b.png" alt="" width="216" height="129" /> + +<p>"Look out, sir!" cried Philip. "You'll get hurt!"</p> + +<p> </p> +<img class="floatr" src="images/page36c.png" alt="" width="157" height="168" /> + +<p>But he spoke just a little too late, for puppy-dog found out his +mistake, and the next minute he was running away and yelping at the +top of his voice.</p> + +<p> </p> +<img class="floatl" src="images/page36d.png" alt="" width="188" height="125" /> + +<p>"The poor little thing!" said Alma. "Wasn't that too bad?"</p> + +<p> </p> +<img class="floatr" src="images/page36e.png" alt="" width="136" height="91" /> + +<p>"Yes," said Philip, "but he'll get over it pretty quick, and I can't +help laughing, it did look so funny."</p> + +<p>When they went back to their auntie's, they told her that was the best +bicycle ride they had ever had.</p> + +<p class="right"><i>—Fannie E. Ostrander.</i></p> + +<br /> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p class="illustration"><a name="page37" id="page37"></a> +<img src="images/page37.jpg" alt="" width="389" height="500" /></p> + +<br /> +<br /> +</div> + +<p> </p> +<hr class="full" /> +<p> </p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Dear Santa Claus, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEAR SANTA CLAUS *** + +***** This file should be named 28125-h.htm or 28125-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/1/2/28125/ + +Produced by David Edwards, Claudine Corbasson and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net +(This file was produced from images generously made +available by Florida's Publication of Archival, Library +& Museum Materials (PALMM)) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Dear Santa Claus + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28125] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEAR SANTA CLAUS *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards, Claudine Corbasson and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net +(This file was produced from images generously made +available by Florida's Publication of Archival, Library +& Museum Materials (PALMM)) + + + + + + + + + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +Dear Santa Claus + +Charming Holiday Stories +for Boys and Girls + +[Illustration] + +HANDSOMELY ILLUSTRATED + +Copyright, 1901, by W. B. Conkey Company + +Chicago +W. B. CONKEY COMPANY +PUBLISHERS + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +_The Night Before Christmas._ + + + [Illustration] + + [Illustration] + + 'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, + Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. + The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, + In the hope that St. Nicholas soon would be there. + The children were nestled all snug in their beds, + While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads. + + [Illustration] + + [Illustration] + + [Illustration] + + And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, + Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap; + When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, + I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. + Away to the window I flew like a flash, + Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. + The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow + Gave the lustre of midday to objects below-- + When what to my wondering eyes should appear + But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, + With a little old driver so lively and quick, + I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick. + + [Illustration] + + [Illustration] + + More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, + And he whistled and shouted and called them by name-- + "Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer! Now, Vixen! + On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Dunder and Blixen! + To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall! + Now, dash away! Dash away! Dash away! All!" + As dry leaves before the wild hurricane fly, + When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, + So up to the house-top the coursers they flew + With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas, too. + + [Illustration] + + [Illustration] + + And then in a twinkling I heard on the roof + The prancing and pawing of each tiny hoof. + As I drew in my head, and was turning around, + Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. + + [Illustration] + + [Illustration] + + [Illustration] + + He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, + And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; + A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, + And he looked like a pedlar just opening his pack. + His eyes--how they twinkled! His dimples, how merry! + His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry; + His droll little mouth was drawn up in a bow, + And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow. + + [Illustration] + + He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, + And filled all the stockings--then turned with a jerk, + And laying his finger aside of his nose, + And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose. + He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, + And away they all flew, like the down of a thistle; + But I heard him exclaim ere he drove out of sight, + "Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!" + + [Illustration] + + + + +_The Night After Christmas._ + + + [Illustration] + + 'Twas the night after Christmas, and all through the house + Not a creature was stirring--excepting a mouse. + The stockings were flung in haste over the chair, + For hopes of St. Nicholas were no longer there. + The children were restlessly tossing in bed, + For the pie and the candy were heavy as lead; + While mamma in her kerchief, and I in my gown, + Had just made up our minds that we would not lie down, + When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, + I sprang from my chair to see what was the matter. + Away to the window I went with a dash, + Flung open the shutter, and threw up the sash. + The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow, + Gave the lustre of noon-day to objects below, + I knew at a glance it must be Dr. Brough. + I drew in my head, and was turning around, + When upstairs came the Doctor, with scarcely a sound. + + [Illustration] + + [Illustration] + + [Illustration] + + He wore a thick overcoat, made long ago, + And the beard on his chin was white with the snow. + He spoke a few words, and went straight to his work; + He felt all the pulses,--then turned with a jerk, + And laying his finger aside of his nose, + With a nod of his head to the chimney he goes:-- + "A spoonful of oil, ma'am, if you have it handy; + No nuts and no raisins, no pies and no candy. + These tender young stomachs cannot well digest + All the sweets that they get; toys and books are the best. + But I know my advice will not find many friends, + For the custom of Christmas the other way tends. + The fathers and mothers, and Santa Claus, too, + Are exceedingly blind. Well, a good-night to you!" + And I heard him exclaim, as he drove out of sight: + "These feastings and candies make Doctors' bills right!" + + [Illustration] + + + + +NELLY'S VISIT + + +One summer, Nelly's auntie, who lived in the country, asked her to +come and make a good, long visit, and you may be sure Nelly was very +glad to go. + +[Illustration] + +She had always lived in the city, and she thought it great fun to feed +the hens and chickens and calves, and to watch all the animals and +talk to them. + +[Illustration] + +Cousin Fred was about her own age, so it was very pleasant for them to +play together. Fred took her around the farm and told her about all +the pets, and they soon knew her as well as though she had always +lived there. + +Milly, one of the horses, would eat out of a spoon, and Nelly and her +cousin took turns feeding her. When they went away, she whinnied for +them to come back again, but Nelly said, "You shall have some more +to-morrow; you mustn't be a piggy-wiggy." + +[Illustration] + +One day Fred and Nelly gathered flowers in the woods, and Nelly made a +wreath to put upon her cousin's head. + +"It seems just like fairyland out here," she said. "Let's play it is +fairyland, and I'm a fairy and you're a brownie." + +[Illustration] + +Fred thought that a very good game indeed, and they played that they +lived in the flowers and could change themselves into birds, or +squirrels, or people, whenever they wished. + +But bye and bye they got hungry, and they couldn't live on the honey +from the flowers, as real fairies might; so they spread out the lunch +which they had brought and decided to be children again. It seemed as +though they had never tasted anything quite so good as that lunch. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +One day Speckle, the big hen, made a great fuss because her brood of +ducklings went into the water. She flew about here and there on the +bank of the stream, and called to them to come back, but the ducklings +were having great fun and paid no attention at all to her. + +[Illustration] + +Chanticleer seemed to think they were not very well behaved and needed +a good scolding; so he began to strut about and talk at the top of his +voice; but the ducklings had their swim and came out as happy as could +be. + +Nelly thought the little chicks were prettier. + +[Illustration] + +Shep, the dog, could hunt eggs as well as they could, and he always +helped them. After he had found a nest, he took each egg carefully in +his mouth, and laid it in the basket which the children had brought; +and he never broke one. + +"I believe he could count them if he tried," said Nelly. + +"Of course he can count," said Fred. "When we send him after the cows, +he never leaves one behind, nor the sheep either. If one strays away, +he hunts for it until he finds it. But he wouldn't hurt one of them +for anything, no matter how hard he had to work to bring them in." + +[Illustration] + +They watched the milking, and drank all the warm milk they wanted; and +one day they helped churn. + +"I believe I could make butter, too," said Nelly. + +"Of course you could, dear," said her auntie; "it wouldn't take long +for you to learn, either." + +Nelly was delighted with this, and wanted to begin right away. + + + + +FAIRY STORIES + + +Laura, Eva, and Susy are three sisters who are very fond of fairy +stories, as most little girls are. Laura is the oldest, and reads the +stories aloud to the others, while Humpty-Dumpty, the kitten, sits +near and listen--or, at least, he seems to be listening. + +[Illustration] + +But sometimes he gets tired of sitting still and jumps right up on +Laura's book, so she has to stop. Then they all have a great frolic, +and very often little brother Harry comes in to join in the fun, and +they play until they are tired out. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +One story which they like very much is about a little girl who was +lost in the woods and wandered about for a long, long time, until she +was so tired that she fell asleep on the ground, with the flowers all +around her and the birds singing. + +[Illustration] + +But the birds were really fairies and were watching over her to see +that she was not harmed, and they sang to her on purpose to lull her +to sleep, for they knew how tired she was. + +[Illustration] + +And when she wakened, she understood what they said to her and knew +they were fairies, and they led her out of the forest and all the way +to her home. They asked her to come and visit them again, too, and +promised to take good care of her. + +[Illustration] + +Another of their favorite stories is about the flower fairies who come +and dance and sing for little children in the forest when it is very +still and the sun is shining brightly. + +[Illustration] + +Laura says she thinks she has almost heard them sometimes, talking to +the birds; and they often sit very quiet indeed, with their dollies +hugged tightly in their arms, and listen and watch. + +[Illustration] + +Once Eva went to sleep when she was watching like this, out in the +grove back of her home, and she dreamed that a fairy came and danced +for her and sang the sweetest songs you ever heard. + +[Illustration] + +"She was just like a little girl, too," said Eva. "She was bare-footed +and hadn't any hat on her head, and she wanted me to come and dance +with her." + +[Illustration] + +"Did you?" asked little Susy, breathlessly. + +[Illustration] + +"Of course!" said Eva. "We danced and danced and had just a lovely +time together, and then I had to go and wake up." + +"Oh, oh, oh, I wish I could have a dream like that!" cried little Susy; + and she went and lay down on the couch right away, to see if she +couldn't go to sleep and dream about fairies, too. + +[Illustration] + +But when she wakened, she said that all she could dream about was just +a lot of little frogs sitting up very straight on the bank of a brook, +with a great, big frog on a great, big log talking to them. + +[Illustration] + +"I think that was a lovely dream," said Laura; and then little Susy +was happy. + +[Illustration] + +"Now let's read some more stories," said Eva, and perhaps next time +we'll see some really-truly fairies. + + + _--Fannie E. Ostrander._ + + + + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Kate and Dick had a good many pets. There were Frisk and Ponto and +Fuss and another little dog called Fly. There was the pony, Fleet, and +the newest pet of all was a dear little colt that Kate's papa had +given to her for her very own because the pony she rode really +belonged to Dick. + +This colt she had named Fairy, and she took great care of it. Fly and +Fairy were good friends, and they had a funny way of looking at each +other that made the children laugh. + +Then the baby that they all loved lived here. Her name was May, and +she was Kate's sister. She was a sweet little thing, just beginning to +walk and to talk. She could say "chicky" quite plainly, and she liked +to toddle out and watch the little girls feed the chickens. + +But I can't begin to tell you all the good times the children had that +summer. They were happy all the time, and grandma said they were so +good that it was really no trouble at all to have them there. + +[Illustration] + +But at last one Saturday evening, papa, who always came out from the +city to spend Sunday with them, said they must start for home the next +Monday. + +They did want to stay longer, but papa laughed and said, "Christmas is +coming now, you know, and Santa Claus couldn't bring things way out +here as easy as he could get them to you in town." + +Then the children began to think of Christmas and to tease grandpa and +grandma to come and spend it with them, and of course papa and mamma +teased too; so at last they promised, and the children said good-by to +their pets and to Kate and May and Dick and went away shouting? + +"Good-by, grandma. Now remember you promised!" + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +After the children reached home they talked of grandma's nearly all +the time when they were not talking of Christmas, and Bessie wrote a +letter to Santa Claus asking him to be sure and bring a pair of his +nicest gold-bowed spectacles for grandma because she had lost her old +ones, and not to forget a gold-headed cane for grandpa. + +At last Christmas Eve came, and grandma and grandpa were there, and +the children hung up their stockings, and Bessie said that grandma and +grandpa must be sure and hang up theirs too; then, after they had gone +to bed, the smaller children whispered for a long time about Santa +Claus and listened to hear his sleigh bells on the roof. + +"I don't see how he can get down the chimney," whispered Bessie. "You +know he's so fat in all his pictures." + +"Maybe he takes off his coat," whispered Clara, "then he wouldn't be +quite so big." But she didn't see how he could get down the chimney, +either. + +Once or twice they were sure they heard him on the roof, and they +covered up their heads so he wouldn't think they were peeping, and at +last they went to sleep before they knew it. + +Willie and Tom were just as anxious as the little girls, and whispered +just as much, and they all dreamed of Santa Claus. + +[Illustration] + +Bessie and Clara were the first ones up. They shouted with delight +when they looked in their stockings. There was a dear little dolly in +each stocking--a dolly with real hair and eyes that opened and shut, +and the dollies were dressed very prettily. They were too large to go +into the stockings, so they just stood in them, looking as though they +were ready to jump down. + +Willie found the funniest jumping-jack in his stocking, and Tom pulled +a flute out of his. He had everybody awake in no time after that. + +Grace was happy when she looked in her stocking. There was a little +plush box in it, and in the box was a lovely gold watch; while Harry +found just what he wanted too--a pair of skates. + +But grandma and grandpa were surprised when they discovered the +spectacles and the cane. + +"Who in the world could have told Santa what we wanted most?" said +grandma. + +Grandpa said he couldn't understand it either, and then Bessie had to +tell the secret. + +She ran up to each of them and whispered, "I wrote to him myself!" + +Then how they kissed her. + +All day long the library was kept closed; not a child was allowed to +peep in. But what fun they had all day, and what a Christmas dinner, +with a plum pudding as big as a pumpkin. + +In the evening the library door was opened, and there was the +prettiest Christmas tree, all blazing with candles and hung with +pretty things; while piled around it were books and toys and +everything that everybody wanted most. + +And just think of it! There, lying in front of the tree and looking as +happy as the children themselves, was a great, big, noble dog, who got +up and came to meet them as they trooped in. + +"Ooo! Ooo! Ooo!" cried Bessie, bending to pat his head. "What's your +name, you great, big darling? Ooo! Ooo! Whose is he, papa?" + +"Ask Santa Claus," said papa; and sure enough, Santa Claus stepped out +from behind the tree. + +"His name is on his collar," said Santa Claus. Then the children all +rushed for him for they knew it was grandpa dressed up like Santa Claus. + +[Illustration] + +Afterwards Bessie spelled out the dog's name, "C-a-r-l-o," on his +collar, and her own name on a card which was tied to it, and she was +the happiest little girl in the world. + +But everyone else was happy too, and they all said it was the very +merriest Christmas they had ever seen, and Clara and Bessie dreamed +that Santa Claus told them he himself had never had so much fun before. + + _Fannie E. Ostrander._ + + + + +OFF ON THE WHEELS + + +One summer Alma and her brother Philip spent their vacation with their +auntie, who lived in a beautiful village, so near the pretty country +that they could take a ride out into it on their wheels, at any time +they wished. + +[Illustration] + +They both rode very well indeed, and they were always finding pretty +little spots along the road-side, where they played camp out; for +auntie let them take a lunch if they wanted to, and the air was so +fresh and pure that they were hungry almost all the time. + +[Illustration] + +One morning they started off quite early with their wheels and their +lunch, and they rode out into the country on a pretty road where they +had never been before. + +[Illustration] + +It had great trees along the side and a little river winding along +with it, and they saw the cattle and horses in the fields, and the +hens and chickens and turkeys and geese along the road-side, and once +they got off their wheels to talk to a pretty bossy and her calf that +were very near the fence. + +[Illustration] + +The bossy was a little afraid they might hurt her baby, so she wasn't +quite friendly. But she didn't try to drive them away. + +[Illustration] + +At one side of a farm-house near, a big dog was lying in his kennel, +and a great black cat came up to him very slyly and tapped him on the +nose with one paw. It was funny to see the dog jump up. + +[Illustration] + +The birds sang, and the hens and chickens talked to each other, and +once or twice they stopped to let a flock of geese cross the road in +front of them. + +[Illustration] + +Then they came upon a big flock of turkeys, and the gobbler put on +airs and pretended he was going to stop them; but they flew past and +laughed at him. + +[Illustration] + +By the side of the road in one place, a big, fat, clean-looking pig +was standing, sunning himself; but when he saw them, he ran away, +squealing. + +[Illustration] + +"You needn't run from us," Philip called after him; "we don't want any +pork to-day--we've got chicken for our lunch." + +[Illustration] + +"Yes," said Alma, "and nice, fresh strawberries, and everything good." + +They saw a big dog lying near a chicken-coop, with the chickens +running over him just as they pleased, and Philip called out again, +"Be careful, you little fellows, or you might happen to run down his +throat." + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +They got off their wheels and walked for a little while just for fun; +and all at once, as they were passing a barn, Alma cried, "Look! Did +you see that cat after the mouse?" + +Philip said he didn't; but pretty soon Mrs Pussy came out. + +[Illustration] + +"You didn't get it, did you?" said Alma. "Well, you're fat enough now; +you don't need to catch mice." + +They stopped to eat their lunch under a clump of trees not very far +from a pleasant farm-house. There was a cunning little fat dog lying +in front of the house, and as they watched him, up came a bee and lit +on his nose. + +[Illustration] + +The little doggy jumped up and barked at the bee; then he sat down and +put up his nose in a friendly way, to see what it was. + +[Illustration] + +"Look out, sir!" cried Philip. "You'll get hurt!" + +But he spoke just a little too late, for puppy-dog found out his +mistake, and the next minute he was running away and yelping at the +top of his voice. + +[Illustration] + +"The poor little thing!" said Alma. "Wasn't that too bad?" + +"Yes," said Philip, "but he'll get over it pretty quick, and I can't +help laughing, it did look so funny." + +[Illustration] + +When they went back to their auntie's, they told her that was the best +bicycle ride they had ever had. + +[Illustration] + + --_Fannie E. 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