Show havinga HAVING 1 FUN I SANTA CLAUS 5 T 7 7 ic suddenly a house loomed up before him that seemed to be settling into the snow like a ship on the brink of foundering even as the christmas angel lit the first match shielding it from the wind and holding it close to see the house number the door wits opened he had been expected an old negro man bowed him in his face was sad and wrinkled and his hair the color of wood ashes ile he wore enormous carpet slippers and a checkered shirt open at the neck showed un underwear of coarse red flannel we all been spec tin ln you sahl sah I 1 he quavered ali grancha granc hl hll 11 sick in chicago hospital ellen I 1 ellen lie be called shrilly A slow heavy movement in the room beyond and a stout mammy came into view breathing heavily as her weight threw her slightly from side to s side de as she walked de alettah come asked the old woman haltingly she ru rubbed b bed her eyes and blinked for a full minute before she could see the writing womanlike she turned the pages and read the last paragraph first its from de nury she announced Pr alsede lord de chile am safe an soun out ob all dangan it say I 1 now it will be christmas joy wit us although he could not write the old negro man proudly touched the pencil as his name was writt written tn in the boys boyr receipt book quite warr warm now and monug one of his glad tidings the heavenly messenger departed into the falling snow which soon swallowed him up and then quickly covered over his footprints foot prints as if in fear he be might be followed and some harm barm come to him the next message of glad tidings w was as delivered to a stenographer tucked lucked away in a back room of a rather dilapidated looking rooming house bouse it w was a 5 a letter from home st she ie knew it would come at the last moment yes she had been crying and it have been like christmas a it at all bad it not been for the christmas mes im so tired of the office grind she confided more to herself than to the boy ive written dear S sir ir a hun bun dred and fifty thousand times this week rm im sure then she straightened his neek neeltie tie tp patted him on the head and the angel trudged down stairs and out into the night again next came a letter for the head of a family in a magnificent home where the heavenly messenger passed a relay of servants before reaching the person named in the address that worthy held the port leres aside and an 1 stepped forth in evening dress a serious man w with ith gray gra hair he signed for the letter then looked at the christmas messenger inquiringly come in here son he directed and led the boy into the library the room was a confusion of dazzling women and holiday decorations an ever green tree that reached almost to tile belling was loaded with toys tos and crist christmas a presents of every color and kind while chile other par parcels eels and prick ages were heaped on the floor nt at the foot of the tree A little girl the man inan was saying our daughter an only child she sh seems discontented nothing makei her happy now just suppose you were she do you think she will like all this and all the women listened eagerly to hear bear what the boy would say 1 I would but maybe well theres too much of this pointing g to the gaudy toys 1 I remember my baby sister got a lot of fine toys when dud dad was living and she left them all and went into the kitchen to play with some new tin pans and things mother had just got from the store the star of the new york opera company dabbed at her face with a rabbits foot A one christmas this she reflected bitterly snow three feet deep broadway hundreds of miles away and the show going to pieces this very night ah met mel she signed for her special delivery letter while the christmas angel stared curiously at the bare walls of tho the dressing room the star gave the messenger a quarter and ho he on an his way will find him in room three forty two said the night clerk nt at the commercial hotel aud and the christmas angel ngel found him a young athletic traveling trinell ng man he was just unpacking his grips and the very first thing he took out was vas a picture in a silver frame the angel studied this picture as the traveling man looked nt at hla his 11 ive seen that lady before volunteered the heavenly messenger what shouted the traveling man where is she 1 I just took a letter to her over ut rt the opera house explained the boy ashes a lady in a show and ive looked for her for nineteen months said the traveling man slowly how strange that I 1 should find her on christmas eve ee it Is sure the die glad tidings they tell us about and the next moment he had his coat and hat on and was rushing for the elevator on his way to the opera bouso and the girl he had sought unavailingly ly for nineteen months the heavenly W renly messenger whistled r softly as 8 he plodded through the drifted snow and pulled the knob which caused us ed a bell to ring in the interior 0 of f an old fashioned house light s hone frond from the frost coated windows w of 0 f the front room thigh it was W S now jar ar past midnight mid Bight an old gentleman cam e to the door and pulled bulled the angel into the room abreast of a strong gust of wind and a blinding flurry of snow make yourself right at home my little friend he insisted warmly take that chair up close to thoi fire emily I 1 emily I 1 heres a letter from the british consul in new york what as I 1 live charles to Is safe he was shipwrecked off the coast of france but he Is not seriously injured and la Is on his way home the motherly woman who had bad come into the room cried a little over the news from her son but she did not forget to turn to the bearer of the good tidings and say poor boy it Is a bad night for such a little fellow to be out are your feet wet take shoes hoes s off and we will dry them more warmth clime came from the old gentleman than came from the fireplace as ho he pictured to the boy christinas time in england the wife brought it a plate of cookies shaped like animals and covered with pink and white frosting merry christmas she called softly holding a lamp high over her head as the christmas angel slowly made his way down the walk and out into the night gift giff my luff to your ma 5 seen that lady before were ere the parting words the angel heard as he turned the corner of 0 it a street rind and lost sight of the little house bouse of the kindly german folk foht when the special delivery angel awakened christmas morning or rather christmas noon his bis mo mother ther sitting at his bis bedside and stroking his bis hair said to him in a regretful tone 1 I had planned to have a turkey for dinner today but I 1 could not quite manage it you have your father eyes dear my but he be would have been proud of you ill I 1 id rather have chicken than turkey answered the boy the gravy la Is better tell me about last night nothing but glad bind tidings me ma E everyone seemed to be almost tickle to death at their mall mail I 1 guess foll foil dont send any other kind of leftel but bat cheerful ones on wv |