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Show DADDTS EVENING tmiRY TAIE I EfVA & Mary (Jroharu H M WrS Dorvitcr 'oSL H SANTA COMFORTS REINDEER H 'Oh, oh. dear," said the first HjH feel H "I feel said the second H ".io said H the H "Would not be horrible were H left home'" asked the fouilh reliideer. H anything he the the deer. sbow H badly and as Is ffH man in all the whole world he a Ii hard." around ami H Santa Clans coining towards them lie H was bringing with him ii basket of the H I kind H "What did ne nay that thought H was hard?" asked the third reindeer. not knowing which speech of theirs H Santa thinking of. "I heard yoJ sa.." said Santa Clans. H his dear. Jolly . happy face looking sad B for a moment, "that I was the 1 kindest man In all the whole world so H that I might, pet haps, take pltj "I do not know are talk H Ing about, but. my lovely reindeer jH friends. If I am the kindest man In all H the whole world wh do say that H perhaps I win Aren't H o old Santa Chills? I ion l you know that he loves oh. how H be "Vi". Santa, dear mister, we Uiioiv H salil i.'-tbjl reindeer ,.mmm 1 "We know It." said trie second rein- H deer, and all the others Bald ! H it "Itnt, why. then, didn't you seem to he aaked Ranta "Well," said the third re ndeer, didn't stop to think IfHIg enough about H k -- 1a - I "Dreadfully Worried." M it. We just became frightened ami we felt, oh, dear, how we felt" J The reindeer almost wept at tie H "Put, reindeer, I d not know what yOU are talking about." said Santa. H "I do not know what has frightened he H "We'll tell yoU," Bald the third rein- dee;-. '!.ut please don'l llouk we're ealons and please don't think that we " will he angry, for after we think It H over we win understand that It is all for the best. Of course you are always H in a hurry ami they will " The reindeer let a tear escape from H Ills right e.ve though he trl d to hold H It H "M.v lovely reindeer, what Is the H matter?" asked Santa Claws "tit, tell H me; I cannot bear to see this uiihap H Illness and at Hie beginning of the BH wonderful Christmas season." H "We saw a p i lire." said the third H reindeer, "last year, and we also saw a H toy. The picture was of you dying H over a snowy, Christmassy looking H country In an aeroplane H "And we also saw a toy aeroplane jH III w hlch there was n little make believe H Santa Clans sitting tip and driving It H It was a doit dressed up to look like H you. dear mater, but, oil. we shivered H and we thought' H "'W:ii Santa ever iu m an aeroplane aH nml take tins to tie children in that Bafl wav and leave US behind?' Then we swaBB forgot all about It and were so happy WmM for you tire always thinking ol us Put LbbW the other day we saw you making a llal iov aeroplane, and. oh, dear, ob, dear' SBw "We thought, "i haps, you were go- 9993 Ing to make a big aeroplane and that aBsa vou would ih in it this Christmas ami H leave behind BH "iif . iv. is very lelRsh of us H for w" know tint aeroplanes go even PH faster than we can go ami that they're 969 due things ami we'll trv to feel dlf Fas ferentl) about It, but still oh. we do Bl! love to go wiih you and stuiid am bbsbbi in i'ie roofs while you to down Ibe H ghlmneys and lire eecapes with pre H JasBsa "Mj henutlfiil reindeer." H I ''mis. " may make toy m r- i and all s .its of toys, old fashioind and MU modern, bUl I'll never chance uiv wav H of traveling. Sever, never, never' Al flJ ways 1 win have my lovei'. reindeer bbbI faroll) take me." Ami the reindeer sau were so happy again '"SB |