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Show Spring on Santa rML (P J Qoodrich T'LL tell 'bout the queerest thinq I That happened to me Christmas Eve L When all us bids were snuq in bed fin' sour.d as'.eep J mace be;eL-e When all the house was s'MI as mice I crep' downstairs beside the grata fin spread a blanket on the ficor Sc 3 I cud beep evoke and wait To belch eld Santa wtcn he'd come Do ths chim-ni-ny chse by rre. Ch qce. but I uxis cstiin scared i fin shivery an frem-bi-ry' I heard a mslhn scvercl lirr.cs An clmosl wish? I'd staged ir. bed Suppose I just imaqined that Seme ewe was walzin overhead, fin' or.ee I uxij so sure I sou? H:m peebin throuqh the door at me C course. I bnou he didn't, thouqh, 'Cuuse he'd corr-.e dcum the chim-mi-ntf, J u.xntcd tili the clock struck ten. Then thouqhl of what my mother said: That Sanla never would co.xe in Till all us children utrre in bed So then I kep fust awful still. An snuqq'.ed close up to the fire, fir.' then I heard my mofiHer'j vcic: "Why. Alexander R-jjus Fn,er. Mju ncuqhhj. navqhly little boyl" I sew her face was cyiie severe. knew that she uxis anqry too ) " ''iz!ex?r are you dcir.q here?" "h'.crry Chrisl-nos." veiled the rc:t. fin' then I saw 'twas broad dau'.iqhL l warted to belch Santa Claus. but didn't mean fo stay all mqhl " Dad said, with rcH a cunctu look. "If you'd cauqhl SarJa Clous, my boy, Hed gone back up the chim-nu-nij fin' r.sver left a sine?,' (oy " aJ"-I aJ"-I fell a little sore and sti3. o Y But not as cold as Id of Ihouqht. -'K. For over me, with Dad s name on. ' Was an auto robe thai Santa brouqhtyj. (.. An' all our stockinqs were cram full. C With heaps o presents everywhere'') Oh qce. I just can't understand SXhr'h'? Y.ow Santa ever jof 'ezi thcrel Tyijfv |