Show r- r f Telegram Christmas Serial fi Santa and end the Snow Man Klan J. J i 1 T l' CHAPTER THREE AT TA LAND as you OU must SANTA mow know is a very busy place I W. W only think how hard and long ti the Santa Land fold must work i to make toys for all the girls and j iK boys iKs ys s of the world J Of course hound Around round Christmas time the place Pets ts busier than ever and sometimes sometimes some some- u times times the little folk dont don't have time thue to eat their dinners though they always manage to eat des- des gert if they haven't time to eat carrots and broccoli NOW one d day y in December while whileD D Danny Danny ny and the Snow Man Ian were on Claus sat satt ih their ir way fay north Santa It t this his desk reading letters faraway faraway children I Heres a letter from Johnny Marshall Harshan he exclaimed He HeW W ants an orange orange-c orange colored lored bicycle Santa Banta turned to Mrs Claus Now why would it have to be orange please tell me I Mrs Claus was darning darning- a hole In Santas Santa's knit hat Perhaps because because because be be- cause cause he has an orange sweater ripe ahe te said soothingly And wants sHo match Poof cried Santa We Ve have red bicycles blue ones black ones even v-eh v a few green ones Why should hould I have to go out and do a I special paint job just so 50 this I Johnny Marshall can match his sweater I wont won't do it That's 1 all II I wont won't do it it I J I Mrs Claus just sat there darning darning darn- darn ing fag and sm smiling to herself She knew perfectly well Santa would dot He always did He had to have just always always just exactly the right gift for each child who re requested requested requested re- re quested it f r Only that very morning morning- he had put a tiny elevator in a tiny doll doH dollhouse dollhouse h house u. u because a certain child had written v itten that her doll was an old lady who couldn't climb stairs And the day before he had made a pair of wheeled rubber skates for fora a boy who wrote that he wanted indoors on rainy days r r So So Mrs Claus wasn't at all surprised surprised sur sur- when Santa went into the kitchen and dragged out his paints and began mixing trying mixing trying to get a perfect orange He had hardly started on his task when there was a pounding at the front door and Marlowe the sled mak ing mak-ing brownie shouted f t Come quick Santa Flournoy f Santa dropped h his s paint brush and hurried to the door But Mrs Irs Cla Claus Claris s came cam up right behind him and d said Dont you dare go out without your cap k It- Ithe She he snapped the thread she had been using to darn with and pulled the cap over Santas Santa's head It was only a black stocking cap and it wu worn and often mended One of these days grumbled Mrs Claus You are going to get a new hat But she had been saying the tame name thing for years ears so it didn't mean anything Besides Santa was gone by that time and didn't even hear A good thing it was that he hurried t top too because when he got to the workshop he found Flournoy had all aU but broken the Queen Fairy's wings i I I 1 I I N 0 OW Flournoy was a Santa Land d delf elf but he was different from all the rest For one thing thinS he didn't like to work And he didn't like toys toS and he didn't like children and he didn't like anything anything- but making trouble He had a terrible temper and he was mean as any elf could be How he ever got to Santa Land no one ever knew but he stayed because Santa thought there was some good in everyone and he hoped if he was kind to Flournoy Flournoy would grow to be kind too But now Flournoy had tried to pull out the Queen Fairy's wings to make an Indian headdress for himself and Santa knew the elf would never be anything but evil So Santa took Flournoys Flournoy's arm armand armand armand and said Leave Santa Land and never come here again This was vas a terrible punishment because no elf or fairy or brownie bro in all the world had ever been banished banished banished ban ban- from Santa Land Flournoy said I wont won't go and you cant can't make me Santa walked all the way around Santa Land drawing a line with a stick in the snow as he went Then he pushed Flournoy across the line and said You Youcan Youcan Youcan can never cross this line And Flournoy couldn't either because Santa had put up an invisible wall and though you couldn't see it it might as well have been a brick wall a thousand feet high as faras faras far faras as Flournoy was concerned Flournoys Flournoy's face darkened with hate and anger He said I swear by all aU the witches and goblins and evil spirits in the world that I will win pay you back for this With th that t he stomped away and Santa standing among all his faithful workers felt a coldness a mound around his heart Tomorrow Danny comes to Santa Land |