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Show I "Ycr., Virginia, there is a Santa ' Claus.' Kc exists as cer-' cer-' tairly s love ar.d generosity and devotion exist. Alas, how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Vir-riivs Vir-riivs There would be no child-" child-" like"fa th, then, no poeu-y, no rcmar.ee, to make tolerable this - existence. "?,Toi to believe in Santa Claus! You night et your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys chim-neys on Chiistmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did r.ot see Santa Claus coming Town down the chimney, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but' that is no sign there is no Santa Claus; The most rer.l things in the world are thoie that neither children, nor nun can sec. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all he wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. "No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten thousand years from now, Virginia, he will continue con-tinue to make glad the heart of childhood." |