| Show SE OF CHRISTMAS STOCKING custom coms from sunny italy where poor fart cud long laing knitted purses custom of hanging up stockings on christmas eve cornea comes to us from a land far across t be ocean from sunny italy in the city of fradua long ago food re d st nicholas used to go about the beets after dark elul nd vf through h e window windows of the homes of tap poor ale lone long knitted purses tied at ith th ena en and containing much aeed teed il I 1 colne these purses bere iere ninde of irn n nud and when untied looked not rit 0 una a e a footless stocking klu ally 11 ox time went on the poor keople eople hoping thus to remind the ore fortunate of their needs used to ang these empty purses out of 0 the tile indans on the night before christ bias as go so that a gift might be pl ced h them in the north country whew the leather eather la Is cd nt lit christina christmas time the ases were hing wing by the chimney lace ace in the hope a that st nicholas drop hi bis offering down the albney hini when the purses went out of fashion as a the thine thing most like them ere used in their tead stead and that Is hy we today tall observe the ice ce and the custom a amea |
