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Show "" a wmmmmmm niii iwiiiiiwin I I tmmmm w, Christmas in Otah? st'. " ' - . To a thrifty Mormon household came, .the . patron - saint of Yule. , ,W Ho was puffing like an engine, he was ladori like a Mule, J For ho knew a row of stockings such as nowhere else is seen . Would bo yawning there before him in tho Miome of Elder Green. So he shoved his pack ahead of him and si arted down tho flue " While he muttered. "This something that I hate liko smoko to do." ; , . Then ho followed with reluctance through the sooty, smudgy air, Qhickly landing whore the hosiery was hung in'. many a pair ' ; , :' There wore papa's socks and twenty pairs" of lengthy, wifely hose; There were seeks ffcr Eddie, Willie, for Elipealet and Mose; '&$. ' Thoro wero stockings of Matilda's, EsneraldSP' . and Susanne's; ?' Thoro wore Charley's hose aad Molly's, tpfe Belle's and little Dan's. ; Amtrallis, George, Alphonao, Potar, Joseph, Maude, Eugoile, ; Arthur, Litxie, Jahies, Amelia, Mary, Francos auuUrdnOi,. , j .; , Brigjrie, Reed, LucUe, Cloilnda, AiytluiM, Jojin, '- Bstelie, Mat tie, Lucifer, Etfrida-from Itis lips their tiUesfell ' . about the shelf there datiflod other hoeo . hoae.iaittes , 11 " v , ( ,4 x not r)l to save him as ie watched TtHe - ; ;A. ' '-"Utek':) R bal)y siaes, each in age not qiiita- ; v'W. ;', -S, , "beon something doing since .--iii-'; v Qf rattIes and iv.tot;o . . -. ' ' 0' V' ' or such kindergarten ', ' :'-' ' ' k- .j , . -stdescreetUvheld . v ,wSt si' . ; --v t - -crk , . ' K. ' ' ' ' ' v '&" ' ' |