I / iflF X. A Metro Christmas toijou” Cried Scroode izaaGa, (CSJOLLO ! Whoop! Hollo there! Do you know where *£ the nearest, bookshop is ? You do ? Delightful boy! Well, go there and buy all the books. Tell them to send them here. Come back in less than five minutes and I’ll give you half a crown.” “I’ll send soma to Bob Cratchit’s!” whispered Scrooge, splitting with a laugh. “Some to Tiny Tim, Dick Copperfield, Dolly Varden, Mr Pickwick, and all of them. Here are the Books. HoOo! Whoop! How are you ? Merry Christmas!” They were Books. They stood mountain high. To topple them over would drown the lustiest peal of the dingdonging, clammering, clanging, glorious bells. “Must have a cab,” said Scrooge. The chuckle with which he said this, and the chuckle with which he paid for the books, and the chuckle with which he paid for the cab, and the chuckle with which he recompensed the boy, were only to be exceeded by the chuckle with which he sat. down breathless and chuckled tin he cried. » And they had the Dickens of a happy time that. Christmas. It. was simply won-der-ful, the pleasure those books gave and are still giving. Books for everyone. For fat folk and thin folk; for happy folk and sad folk; for tall folk and short folk ; for old folk and young folk. That was a Christmas if ever there was one. As Tiny Tim observed. “God bless averyone that makes this Christmas a Book Christmas!” G 4 G 4<iv/. /»’ Where’s a bookshop
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1922, Page 10
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