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aunt .JtDIrH'S STOCKING
4 Boys ChristInas story.

4 Boys ChrIstnas story.
Ha, ha-ha. How funny it is vet
when we think about it. Iwonder if
there ever will CONS a Christmas that
we boys won't laugh when we think
of what Aunt Judith got in her stock
ing.
You see, though she was mothers
sister, she wasn't bit like her-weil,
| should say not. She was just all
puckered mp with meanness, and
hated boys worse than poison. and
gave MS no end Of a racket. Why, if
we left our shoes in the middle Of the
Hoor, she'd fill them full of sand, and
hide our caps when we forgot to
hang 'em up, and sweep our marbles
away, and makes 'lasses candy when
weren't home, and we dindt have
any peace of mind under our own
fathers roof, and she was held up to
us all the time like kind Of saint:
"Your dear Aunt JUDITH Your
poor Aunt JUDITH and she march
ing over us like a grennydeer, and
making our lives miserable. She
wasn't afraid of anything either. and
made us 90 down cellar in the dark.
and said, "Well, if | was boy
Humph, if she had q been. what p
precious good licking she'd want to
give herself.
! Yes; she was afraid of something,
+ a
! at'raider than we would have been of
real live bear, or band OF pirates.
and when we found that out. We Just
! laid low and waited to drop on her
Tommy, he's little shaver-hc said
| i, was kind of mean TO do it at
Christmas, but we all lowed that if
we didn't spoil her fun, she'd spoil
ours, and that was the year Santa
Claus dropped Tommy. Of course
we knew-pooh. | should say we
did. but Tommy, he got letter from
Santa, telling INN he should no,
come down chimney any more
there's was too many little ones, and
it was toe hard on the muledeer-
and the little goose believed every
word,
SO we Concluded as Aunt Jude
says, 10 hang up stockings all around,
and mother was to be Santa Claus for
us, and we were to he Santa Claus
for her, and Aunt Judith and Tommy
came near telling all about it, and
letting the cat ont of the bas-na. /
mean letting she-wcll, never mind,
see further Oh. as Oliver Alltalk says.
| guess you'd have thought We
we were having fun if you had heard
US. We staid up till ~, and had 9
whole candle to see by, and locked
the door. and oh, such fun as we had.
chasing it round and round, not the
stocking. but the-there. l nearly
told
Aunt Jutlith's stocking was jus'
like herself. long, lanfy cotton-and,
wool kind Of mixed thing, and il
seemed as if We never would get i
filed, It WAS so empty. and we didr''
dare to put in anylhn. very heavy
for fear-well we put in a new pail
Of gloves from mother and sill
handkerchief from father, and ;
HYMN book from Tommy-she Wa
great on hymns-and then Il new
pen handle from me and scent bot
tie from Bob, and then we hung i
on the door handle and it swun:
: round and round, as if it was neve
gong to stop, and then we sneakel
; into bed and in two inmates we wer,
all fast asleep, and it was broad day
light when we woke up.
There was the stocking though, an,
before we got ours off the door-knol
Aunt Judith stalled out IN an re,
quilt, and her hair tied into littl
knot on the top of her head, and be
gan taking her presents out in tn
sitting room; when she got down t.
the toe OF the stocking, she grabbc'
1t, and then she gave yell like
whole band of Injun savages, AM
father and mother run to see wha
was up-we didn't dare to, and W
only peeked, and there she was up i
chair a screamin' at the top Of he
voice, "Oh, take it off. Oh, take
away! Oh, shall die. L know
shall! :" And she couldn't get he
hand out cause the stocking wa
narrer, and she danced and hollered
Oh, cracky! it was as good as a play
And then father jerked the stockin
: away and turned it inside out, and
little bit of a ua0use fell out. dcade
than a door-nai!
Thon father was mad.
"a 81 should think You might hav
4 some sense, Jude" he said, and i
| kind of grinned, and then we knew
WAS all right, but we had to ask ht
q pardon, all the same; but we had I'll
fun, and she never has set down Q
us since she squeezed that mouse
death. 1t ards mean, but we made
uD the next Christmas