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Show I! IlillllllllllllllllllllillUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII II APair of Stockings Bj Chriitopktr C HiurJ ii liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiimimiimiiiiiii ir (V. Weatcra Newtyaper I'oltio.) BUDDY SMTTII had three ideas about his stockings they were full of feet, full of holes, and they could be full of presents. It was with regard to the third idea that he was paying attention to the second. Willing Will-ing to go barefoot under the circumstances, circum-stances, he was tlelng up the holes in his best stocking, with it view to the Christmas possibilities, ills sister, Agnes, had already bung up a much longer stocking, with a note attached In which she Informed all who might be concerned that this one was hers. Hut Agnes, like the monkey that used a rabbit for a muff and kept himself warm by hugging it, was a Uttle pel-fish. pel-fish. Not only hnd she hung up one of her mother's stockings, but she had got an advantage over lludrty In the matter mat-ter of the chocolate cake In the cupboard, cup-board, for there were holes all round It the size of her little finger. So It was that on Christmas morning morn-ing the shorter stinking hud the most In it. |