WHAT SANTA CLAUS FOUND OUT.
A CHRISTMAS EYE STORY. It was Christmas Eve and Marjorie had been sent to bed for being naughty. Mummy had told her not to sjide on the big pond behind the house, and Marjorie had disobeyed. But more than that, she had fallen through the ice and got her elothes wringing wet, ftfid very nearly a cold, too. “You don’t deserve to have anything in your stocking!” said her mother, as she turned out'the light. “I’ve a good mind to Santa Clffus about you, and see what he 'says about it.” [Marjorie could not sleep for wondering if mummy meant to do, what she said. She had writtefl to Santa Claus asking him to give her a pram for her dollies. Santa Claus was kind, so perhaps he’d bring her the pram, in any ease, even though she had been naughty. .Suddenly the door opened, and a figure 'entered, carrying a lantern The stranger had a long white beard and shaggy eyebrows, and wore a red coat and hood with white fur trimming. Marjorie sat up in bed and saw that it was Santa Claus. “Oh,” she cried excitedly, not a bit frightened. “Didn’t mummy tell you ? Have you brought mie a pram for my dollies, after all?” “I came to tell you,” Santa Claus said, “that I have only one dolly’s pram left, and there’s) another little girl who wants a pram. She is a cripple and very poor. Would you very much mind if I gave her the pram? Marjorie hesitated, but she 6ould not help feeling sorry for the little cripple. “All right, I don’t mind,” she whispered. “You are a good, generous little girl,” Santa Claus said. “And in the morning perhaps there will be a lovely surprise for you.” And —would you believe it? 1 — the very first thing that Marjorie saw next morning was the loveliest dolly’s pram! You see, it wasn’t Santa Claus who had paid Marjorie a visit but her own daddy, who had dressed himself up in order to find out. if Marjorie were really such a naughty little girl at heart as her mummy had said and he found that she wasn’t. .
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3887, 22 December 1928, Page 4
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367WHAT SANTA CLAUS FOUND OUT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3887, 22 December 1928, Page 4
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