Show 45 ED BAB CHILDRENS 49 CHRISTMAS tilled I 1 HIS 1 is a story etory of last am v chris trum day and ad I 1 will ill tell you right awny away that it ended happily but it beglin begins gins sadly it was sm christ nine mas day up at the north pole pale and ana at usual on an the day before christmas christina st lit nicholas had been hurried and rather grumpy only tills time ill other mother bicholas cholas fi U ought to herself that he was just jost a bit gr than she ehe had ever known it him and ad at suppertime lipper h he found that she ahe was right 11 be came into the kitchen closing his 11 1 workshop akl door it with st a be g and ad nijib jid ant down with all the lit little us Ni m to was his porridge well iya im sold gald it before h be growled but or this time I 1 mean it th the children down there 1 in 19 the world will get et working nothing ft from my iny park pack this night tt it time they were taught a less lesson all th the a 1 l N Nicho ch lases A gasped gaspad but mother er nichol nicholas only staled asked cal calmly lealy why what la Is the matter now fis fa ther the after yon ve been working for or the the he whole he year you yon go en and dis disappoint point the poor dears deam annu w would lit y youa A all yeb I 1 would declared st NI alch olha I 1 law ills porridge 1 in arc eat gulp culpa and ad pretending that he be was wall not a balant let at all 11 halt of ill them 9 go around ad wring that sicre latt jim t away any st billbo alcho las itte pk poking 9 fun no at roe me and it laughing in their anil and the other half th k it smikes no CA difference whether to they are am good culture children or not at III till fill th their fir stockings jut just the same its 9 ob I 1 tel you and im too old aid a man tor 1 it so I 1 C come C said old mother nicholas 1 sooth J iney gly here Is a plate of griddle to cakes A when you have cut eaton you yen will see eee tangs differently no cheni when I 1 have bove eaten core I 1 sh shall 11 go to in bed that a where an old fell fellow ilk like me belongs belong an old id fellow who bivrell children dont bel believe levie la M mother 0 that I 1 saw that lie he was determined and that there WAS nothing to flo do to tor it since griddle eakes cakes mould rit help so go she he put par her finger to hw her lips to motion a t low the children silent and ad went on an q quietly city about her work and am I 1 when Zel st adir led had bided finished id bia sapper he be did roll 11 away my to bed only telling U ill the iiii little 1 e Nicho h ia lases to b be sure to hang th their A stockings t id for or they had bad b been e good children all 11 the ae icar ar and it A ellal it be believed in a him wee the jua minute lante the th time closed behind him bim the little lit a bar barrt into brite excited cited chatter charter oh what a I 1 th those poor children 1 surely rely there them sa roust be A borne good CA ones I 1 oh adener dear oat what 1 fun wh sell christmas be to us if ivi ath a 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in t w waa act eldon it I 1 it stint at main mother let ih aw am A at adv time of day and it tire b ac be a a after dark will noil blis f te t putting on her aoud nd core and pulling palling on an her be A are m yon aline to drive the win me d lier be back ck to lo tile stab lesl asked tile ilott boy bay oh 01 id please was let IM me I 1 fa it aliw at an AI lit me you kw know nourr k bs lid head ill abe bot b to u aubia in til ill this his barit a work I 1 kaie done at t cadd 1 jf adale when ne g buck you ton may my do it am a always irlies bow H or th tile children dij i I 1 we was tittle little lahr old aid knothe alj 1 slon law on an the thai wild drive over aver toad and tor jus am ean and it weana and ad up and ad do down chimney and good goodness nesa kanom anona where without luking ling st nichol it f ah he might yen that we waa just what atie he we ana going to dof pat for ahil a good gead thing needs doing mile khe mid brightly no pe permission dealon Is 1 needed keep the lure going be sam bur that the me but baby has baa the far rug g well 11 up around lit his ahm and give your father ft a good breakfast when he waken I 1 she abe culled called over oer her shoulder and 4 we wa awn my no ont t of the do door aimont hot before they th ha had d realized that the he was going they heard beard the competing of the reindeer cl hoofs boots faster the dimmer they got and d then just the ot of the north pole that we waa last christmas be ere and it if vou volt sale ask any child who lay awake to see a st bt nicholas Nich oltia and ad peeped out at with on one eye all 11 the it time pretending to be feet aaa asleep he will tell yen ya that I 1 it t t st nicholas nichol he saw A at all 11 it w ana just at A till tiny y old lady with will treaty frosty whit I 1 curls and a red hood bood iland who he filled roughly naughty ullen go stocking ing soar lust as 1 I lull full as good marguerite aland nd f I 1 11 4 st nichol nichola Nl chola welcomed her back AS aft it ly left ciany may more boo ban boom bona IB be both is than in cuti was wa us usual al that peeping ng child will also tell you that before she went wd back up the calm bh ali 91 fae baby a aimis I 1 a on hla him PIT pink tile cheek it a thing bt nichol who A 1 la as am afraid of bull babies arble as am a burl burglar Is and for the same baine rea ran son how baa never or bee been imam cnown to do de and d other mother you bell belleca me in ha balte amita of having stopped to Z kiss I 1 all al ali babler was wai back at t the worth pole who whole hour hall r earlier than st nich 1 l a had ever been able to make make it ev even CA n in his younger das her work it was well wall do done tool but in A spite of the early hour she found the children and her husband waiting tor for her st nicholas wele welcomed orned her back more affectionately the than a the children 1 woke lo 10 the middle of th ba night mit he be bald aid I 1 out of such euch a horrid drez dream all about crying V children and it bad it iia mothers raInal bless B you send lood M alte tor far not ant letting that dream come trust truel oh it dont t in mention a aaion it ft said mid mother nicholas nichol it nas aam no trouble at all 11 indeed it did we me good I 1 think in fa alier be clace you are getting so A ad old 1 U will tale over ever I 1 job mit from corn now on b bt L nichol looked f at chood barad that lie ile paced up no and ad down the th floor door ill be came and ad stood la Is front of mother nicholas nichol straight ing up and ad looking almost almon as am young as la 1 him early days day no mother he be bald aid firmly nemly A woman A place 1 la 1 in the home I 1 it at to tte the business them you and mother other who be alter after all a asly wanted w ant cd to be bappe made ad him wine come griddle cakes for him bia break last fast but that was lust last year the year iou got a blocking rull full even th you suu babut been so very good ala c at r tiu had bad bettor better vath 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