Show ORIGINAL SANTA CLAUS he la Is believed to have been st nicholas Ki cholas a bishop ia in the year ar aw he was walf famous for his kindness to children it Is said that one night wish ing in to help a nobleman who was so poor that he had no a money for hie his daugh daughters teen dowry the good bishop looked in at the old mans window and saw him asleep by the fire ere he then climbed upon the root roof and dropped a gold piece down the chimney thinking that it would fall fail upon the th hearth but it fell instead in one of the gentle roana maws stockings which his daughter had hung up to dry beside the fire this ills started the custom of hanging lockings stockings over the fireplace and the legend of santa coming down the chimney |