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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Dear Santa Claus, by Various
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+Title: Dear Santa Claus
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+Author: Various
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+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. Ostrander._
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+
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