Show the Brak emans christmas story funny fanny thing occurred down dowa at our house housa christmas said tho the brakeman im away almost every night in ia the year but bat christmas alight I 1 got a layoff lay off and stayed home with the wife irita and babes next nest door to us ua lives one of the stin Bl indest giest old cod rera gers exer ever was i name nama find and everybody calls him st stingy in wheeler lie is is an old chi chap p W who ho has no children and no friends and who la is said to be worth a good deal of 0 money le ive hall bad a good deal of 0 sickness moneau in my house this winter and tunes times have been right hard with us tig it was mighty little christmas aro ha bad I 1 can tell you well theres one thing we can say henry said my wife to beaud that is la that our house is is not hard to warm it boats all the way coal does last us here that halt hall ton yon got a month molt h a ago 90 i a nt nearly all gong gone yet 11 lb ills the way coal lasts when theres nobody to steal it as we had where we lived last I 1 replied now no theres only ono one man in in this neighborhood rd id suspect ol of stealing coal and stingy wheeler 1 I trust that I 1 old codger very far 11 Neit Neither ber would I 1 said my wife that night after we got in in bed m my y wile wife woke me saying she was wa sure sore she aha beard some oria one ia in the coti coal 1 house 1 11 11 I believe its old Wb wheeler eeler I 1 said so do 1 I 1 my wito wife replied bill be careful henry and dont gut get into any trouble with the old skinflint she eho added RS as I 1 hastily dressed myself softly I 1 tiptoed out to the coal bouse case and suro sure enough thero there was a man there hard bard at work with a it was stingy wheeler and I 1 he be was throwing coal from his hia bm into lamai in i ne herald |