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Show THE HEBER HERALD. r I'll be a kind old Santa Claus, good old fellow, who heartily enjoys Thus good for good returning. the frankness of the queer letters, and is particularly happy when they are silver with then And maybe key well written and correctly spelled and box .His wonderous unlocking, expressed. That morning ther letters till he He'll take out pretty gifts were unusually interesting, andhiseyes. Has filled up every stocking. danced merrily, while his pencil, fairly he'll Then up the chimney, back go flew as he jotted down the items in his and Oer tree and roof steeple, note-booAs he opened a large enDriving his reindeer through the snow, velope his cherry noze gave a displeasTo visit other people." ed little sniff, and he puckered up his And so it was. When from their beds forhead and twisted hi snowy beard, wondering when and where he had These little fellows hurried once before smelled corbolic acid and With mothers story in their heads chloroform. And hearts with hopes all flurried, Ah! said he after a moment, this The tale of maybe had come true, must come from the patient laddie who Just as it had been told them, was so long under the surgeons care And such a lot of presents new, "The stockings scarce could hold last year. Dear boy! I hoped that " he would be well by this time, and them! able to enjoy a merry Christmas." But instead of a childish scrawl was a k. h.IUSTMASJMAjCHILDRENS firm, graceful hand-writin- g, which set Torth tHatThFchildrenrn ,St. Anme-Hospital longed fora visit from Santa Santa Claus was in his cozy den Claus; that the little creatures had nor filled, had their never morthe the letters stockings reading brought by been ning mail from all over4he world JThe had their suffering lives ever been children know how hard it is to choose brightened by the glowing tapers of gifts for their own families, and so, Dear! dear! sighed the generous thoughtful little creatures, they seek to a dolls help their old friend in the perplexity soul, as fie wiped his eyes on of selecting for thousands and hundreds lace hankerchief which lay conveniently of thousands every year; and as they near, only to think there are children had know. very well what they want for who never knew me who never themselves, they write their requests. a Christmas! This is a bad buisness. This is really a great assistance to the I must have thought that St. Annies hospital: the-Christmas-- tree!. , I I r I & tras f ood Ar rrutr b coti lette: insur s'stc es. H both tisf cud( wee He ten j'jt ton slay ii cf chi' ih ab( a: en cc n; IT, |