Show jam ADDY addys 1 come to supper 11 at mary a r y brown opened w the living room door to put her head out into the alie darkness and cold of a snowy christmas eve coming old scout replied a gruff voice which had grown coarse shouting a foremans orders in the clanging steel mills dad stamped the snow from his workout overshoes well ive shoveled the walk he growled even if grandmas grandeas Grand mas not coming and soon be drifted again jus jut just t felt I 1 wanted to do it somehow sla and bob the twin sixes na as dad had named them since their last birthday birth dai now pounced on him yelling gonna get a sled I 1 gonna get a bledl led 1 and 1 I get a dollie papa wont 1 I hull huh after supper tile the little ones went reluctantly to dreamland oil oh just to think I 1 chrict mas at last I 1 11 0 w hard to walt wait till morning 1 but t h 0 sandman surprised them and made waiting easy al a r y 11 said dad gloomily ill h have a v 6 to speak to jimmie minte Jl what keeps him out late inie this way even if 41 it Is vacation its strange if lies hangin around pool halls no goodal over ever come of that mother looked thoughtful well she admitted he been in early for a week but sam I 1 dont think hed do anything wrong yon son know anything 11 N no jims been a good boy imald said dad ad an awful good boy but S sh I 1 said mother I 1 I 1 jimmy burst in rosy with cold his eyes sparkling keen weather I 1 he announced explosively plo dancing and blowing his bands ands t 10 41 lo mal ila I 1 10 lo dad I 1 gee but a a swell christmas christinas I 1 j dad and mother brightened with Bu miles alles who could help it with jimmy iro round unil but dad shifted uneasily do to take a boy to task on n christmas eve up lie started copack to pack ala Is pipe jimmy your suppers still hot 1104 t s nother mother said bind wo we saved it for you thanks ma ila I 1 youre a peach 1 boy but im hungry I 1 dad found the tobacco bag it was empty lie ile hastily shoved pipe and bag into his pocket but mother had noticed and her smile faded poor sam saint the truth was wag the browns were broke and tills this was to bo be their slimmest slim christmas well daddy she said weve the little tree and the doll and the sled to bo be thankful for but sam I 1 did so hope your mother alother could have como come this year as always maybe wo wc should have borrowed bo dad coughed nu no dear we send her the fare far e and io so the end of it next year maybe with no ile doctor bills be different shell be lonely though jimmy I 1 ex calmed mother what are you so fidgety about C oh nothing I 1 I 1 thought I 1 heard a c car a r though dad Is the walk swept I 1 never noticed notice dad 1 a d gasped walk swept liere q u 1 c k I 1 somebody fan me hes hea never asked that one before I 1 jimmy ran to ills his coat and fished out a package look dad heres mothers present lets put it on the treel tree I 1 jimmy you t I 1 dont need a tiling thing and how could you have bought it anyhow but mothers eyes kindled and mother kotlier Mot lier give dad his present now I 1 saw him fashin for a smoke and givin up cigars I 1 why son you old john D dl I 1 A whole box of clarest get me a match quick you have spent it you run errands for anyway atun run errands humph I 1 im delia erin for undo uncle sam christmas rush jimmy strutted say im a millionaire lio Ilon nire I 1 an auto petits brakes and swung up to the gate and heros heres ray my earl carl jimmy exulted dashing out the door away drove a yellow cab and lit in marched arched in a proud boy with a dear little old lady sam and mary stared its mother erl 1 cried sam taking her in his arms S cautioned grandma wako th the bables babies and she pointed to her bulging shopping bag jimmie whisked it away to td a hiding place but grandma said alary how did you ever manage it we rako rake up a cent to st rd d you said dad ID dearies earls ll 11 said aid grandma fumbling in her handbag you did send it twelve dollars do llara it was little jim mys writing grandmas grandeas Grand mas dim eyes twinkled wisely jimmy blushed dall dad blinking put a proud arm round around him and S squeezed V him tight grandma was holding up twelve crackling bills and saying saulny so sosweet sweet of jimmy and 18 the best part was I 1 need to use it after all old E p h auxon showed up after till all these years and paid me the hundred dollars your poor grandpa loaned him arent we lucky I 1 all herel here I 1 together wont it juat jus t ile be the merriest christmas christinas ever I 1 what was ivas that such a racket in dashed the I 1 pajama ama clad twin sixes thel their little faces shining with ft ath ecstasy ob lob its ohl oh I 1 ohl oh I 1 ohl gratama granma Gran Gra tima ma th in christmas cornel comel CE 1127 1937 western union i |