Show 12 L 2 1 I XA a i n the cooky lady and tims christmas letter 1 Z ma Z I 1 ATSY liked to take her doll out I 1 PATSY pann in the sunny kitchen and watch ann the cook roll out the cooky dough and cut round moons tilen then pu put t them in a long pan ready for the oven when they came out all smelly and warm ann would put some on a paper plate for patsy to cat ann had the nicest dimples when she smiled and patsy would smile right back at her and say thank you cooky lady sometimes there were brown cookies and fruity ones too but the red and green candied ones that ann made for christmas were the very best of all patsy palsy adored ann through the seven short years of her life she had been her constant companion mother was just the lovely lady who ho was always busy with her clubs and going places and daddy was too busy at the office to be bothered much but there was always ann patsy liked the nice postman tim who came to see ann and sometimes they all went to the movies together tim could play pretend almost as good as ann but once she heard board him call ann his best girl and say some day youre going to cook tor for me after that she did did not like him so well things seemed all wrong and santa ansier answered cd her letter and it was 1 only two days till christmas she hd had said please write soon and that had been days ago he must help quick or it would be too loo late several times a day she v would oud go to the mailbox and stand on oil tiptoe to look lock in tor for fear her letter had been over overlooked locked here tim aid s aid one of the of lice is another of the kid 1 l letters to santa claus guess t this hi s ones up to you printed in a childish scrawl on the envelope tim read santa claus care of tim ile he drew out the folded paper it read dear santa please bring I 1 tim another best girl cause ann has to cook for us your friend patsy reynolds tim stared then chuckled santa old boy youre up against it this time jocile webb pearson D western newspaper union T |