Show SAM 1 l DID OT pussy got into alio llio house somehow just as the leat little streak or morning light was mcginn ng to peep through alio window curtains and stole ap bunirs sho jumped upon t lio bed and iier cold nose against and wakened her L 11 ll sprang up in her it camo to iier like a hash its christmas dayl bessie wake up merry christli ia she cried pattering downstairs down stairs to alio sitting room after ali 0 christmas stockings ahoy ri doubt of binding them full santa clans had never forgotten them ct you can imagine alien their dismay when each girl clasped a limp and empty stocking with not so much as n sugarplum sugar plum to ill out alio too 1 they ran 0 o mammas bedroom bed room to pour out their complaints anta clans forgot us cried lill with starting oara llo bring us anything said bessie throwing harol across iier mothers feet in anacone ot grief 1 l too iio s real mean never ichu binn again said boisie oil go back to bed said mamma youve got up too caily how do 3 ou expect santa clans can always got around before daylight there aro such numbers of little boys and girls alio wonder is that lie gets round at all hed never forget you im duio suio go brick and curl down in light then get up and dress your nicely before you como down and see what see rather disconsolate alio little girls back to led you feel so bad dasso bradley haven t you found out moren a hundred time that mamma knows about things wo do sud lill 1 I aint mcclin bad any moren you are and santa claus is a comin in about nine or eight minutes said bessie while waiting for daylight they talked i of alio llio presents they to liuo and as soon as alio suu peeped abobo alio astern horizon they were up ind putting on their clothes as quickly as possible downstairs kliore was nobody in alio sitting room A lirow is burning in alio llio and alio stockings hung against aliu mantel but they still looked liina they cro not near enough to be sura they were empty when a loud tool divot loof sounded from tiomi with ft jingling of bells and a tramping of feet IQS coming 0 lill bradboy Brad loy old santas a coming bessie clinging to her sisters skirts lill held her nothing the door llew open and in bounced santi clang sure enough he wore a very furry coat and a rod cap hiigli and pointed at alio top and bound wil fur llis cyca were behind great silver rimmed spectacles ami liis hair and beaida acro long and white as a s snow mamma camo out of iho bedroom bed room just and bessie and lill sidled lip to hor and caught each feeling half afraid of the queer jolly old elf and then stood silent and watching the groat pack upon santas back and there warn peeping out of every pocket out of alio liis coaL and even his sleeves iio in whew said lid this is the farst chance ive bad to take breath since I 1 started out last night so many youngsters to visit I 1 I 1 no or should get round how hot it is here well lets soul lie whirled alio pack from ills back down on the rug and began ing vigorously among the packages within it only two bloc kings to till here and little onus at that of nrc left over ho drew out a package licud his head on one with ii funny grimace ais lio peeped into it hen thrust it into aliha liha red blocking a doll I 1 knewt whispered lill squeezing her mothers hand A similar package wont aiuto bassio s bauo one then other packages till the stockings stoc kingi would hold no more all the time lio worked JIH kept jerking out funny little speeches about alio children and their wants as if ho knew nil about them lill and bess in astatou of joyful excitement thought thoro was something familiar about the voice or the motions or something she coulden couldn t tell what I 1 acen him before else I 1 did else father abo whispered her mother laughed vow rl alii it mado old santa look up from lii work and 0 o to hociy aho littau fi roupin the the airl time blad my stars ho ejaculated be ginning to cather up hastily from thoa marcoli that bacsa my alnis and i trip 1 olka anant aco jno cs ho throw his pack oscr his awk and thou guttins liis deep in hi s alo drew them full and a ot sugar plums alio little girls aa lie hurried out ot llie Toom anu as ho was coln lio throw a big package nt saying for tho old lady there camo pretty apar forgetting her lill knew alic voice in which this ans said and cried out ils father li flioy sprang after him and led him the laughing 1 athea gC toMy i t i i i feg lin cyc browa a nal nfl rubbed ho red from hla ch celis they robbed him of tho pillow that had him look chubby and plump and he acay m S board thai made him look so ami when thoy came to of tho stockings they more than ever dali to claus their own dear father |