Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-11-29
CHRLSTNAS EVERY DAV.
w. ID. HOweII-'- Amusing After
Thauksgiving story.

w. ID. HOweII-'s Amusing After
Thanksgiving story.
The little girl came into her papas study,
as she always did Saturday morning before
breakfast, and asked for a story. He tried
to beg off that morning, for he was very
busy but she would not let him. SO he
began
"Well, once there was little pig
She put her hand over his mouth and
stopped him at the word. She said she had
heard little pig stories till she was perfectly
sick Of them.
"Well, what kind of a story shall tell,
thenin
About Christmas. It's getting to he
the season. It's past Thanksgiving al
ready
1T seems to me, argued her papa,
that I've told as often about Christmas as
1 have about little pigs"
No difference, Christmas is more in
teresiing."
Well Her papa reused himself from
his writing by great effort "Well then.
I'll tell you about Christmas every day in
the year. How would you ike thati'
First rate' said the little girl; and
she nestled into comfortable shape in his
lap, ready for listening.
=" Very we'll then, this little pig-oh,
what are YOU pounding me for"
Because you said little pig instead Of
little girl"
" | should like to know whats the differ
ence between little pig and IA little girl
that wanted it Christmas every dayi'
Papa said the little girl, warningly,
d" if you don't go on I'll give it to you -"
And at this her papa darted off like light
ming and began to tell the story as fast as
he could .-
Well, once there was a little girl who
liked Christmas so much that she wanted it
to be Christmas every day in the year and
as soon as Thanksgiving was over she be-
gan to send postal cards to the old Christ
mas fairy to ask if she mightnt have il
But the old fairy never answered any of
the postals and after a while the little
girl found out that the fairy was pretty
particular, and wouldn't notice anything
/ but letters, not even correspondence cards
in envelopes; but real letters on sheets of
paper, and sealed outside with a monogram
or your initial anyway So then she be
gan to send her letters; and in about three
weeks-or Just the day before Christmas it
was-she got letter from the fairy, saying
she might have it Christmas every day for
a year, and then the fairy would see about
having it longer.
The little girl was a good deal excited
already, preparing for the old-fashoned
once-a- year Christmas that was coming the
next day, and perhaps the fairy's promise
didn't make such an impression on her as
it would at some other time She Just re
solved to keep it to herself and surprise
everybody with it as it kept coming true /;
and then it slipped out of her mind alto
gether.
She had a splendid Christmas She went
to bed early, so as to let Santa Claus have d
chance at the stockings and in the morning
she was up the first of anybody and went
and felt them, and found hers all lumpy
with packages Of candy and oranges and
grapes and pocketbooks and rubber balls,
and all kinds of small presents, and her big
brothers with nothing but the tOngs in
them, and her young lady sisters with a
new silk umbrella, and her papa's and
mammas with potatoes and pieces of coal
wrapped up in tissue paper Just as they al
wavs had every Christmas Then she
waited around till the rest of the family
were up. and she was the first to burst
into the library, when the doors were open
ed, and look at the large presents laid out
on the library table-books and portfolios
and boxes of stationery and breastpins and
dolls and little stoves and dozens of hand
kerchiefs and inkstands and skates and
snow shovels and photograph frames and
little easels and boxes of water colors aud
Turkish paste and nougat and candied
cherries and dolls houses and waterproofs
and the big Christmas tree, lighted and
standing in a waste basket in the middle.
She had a splendid Christmas all day.
She ate so much candy that she did not
want any breakfast and the whole fore
noon the presents kept pouring in that the
expressman had not had time to deliver the
night before and she went round giving
the presents she had got for other people
and came home and ate turkey and Gran
berry for dinner, and plum pudding and
nuts and raisins and oranges and more
candy, and then went out and coasted and
came in with "a stomach ache, crying and
her papa said he would see if his house was
turned into a sort Of FOOLS paradise another
year; and they had light supper, and
pretty early everybody went to bed cross.
Here the little girl pounded her papa in
the back again.
Well, what now Did say pigs"
You made them act like pigs
Well didn't they"
No matter you oughtn't to put it into
story
Very well, then, I'll take it all out. "
Her father went on
The little girl slept very heavily, and she
slept very late, but she was wakened al
last by the other children dancing round
her bed with their stockings full of pres
ents in their hands
What Is it," said the little girl ant
she rubbed her eyes and tried TO rise up il
bed
Christmas Christmas Christmas!
they all shouted, aud waved their stock
ings
Nonsense! 1t was Christmas yester
day"
Her brothers aud sisters just laughed
We don't know about that, It's Christ
mas to day any way. You come into the
library, and see.
Then all at once it flashed on the littl,
girl that the fairy was keeping her prom
Use, and her year Of Christmases was be
ginning. She was dreadfully sleepy, but
She sprang up like lark-a lark that haC
overeaten itself, and gone to bed cross
and darted into the library. There it wa'
again Books and portfolios, and boxei
of stationery, and breast pins
you needn't 20 over it all, papa;
guess can remember Just what was there,
said the little girl
Well, and there was the Christmas tire,
! blazing away, and the family picking Out
their presents, but looking pretty sleepy
and her father perfectly puzzled, and he
mother ready to cry. "lm sure | don
see how I'm TO dispose of all these things,
said the mother, and her father said i
seemed TO him they had had something
, Just like it the day before, but he supposed
he must have dreamed it, This struck thu
little girl as the best kind of "a joke an'
so she ate so much candy she didn't wan
any breakfast, and went round carrying
presents and had turkey and cranberry fo
dinner and then came out and coasted an'
came in with "a
Papa ~
"Well, what now r.
"What did you promise, you forgetfu
thing I"
"Oh Oh, yes.
q Well, the next day it was the same thin
over again, but everybody getting crosser
and at the end Of weeks time so man,
people had lost their tempers that you coul'
7 pick up lost tempers anywhere-they per
fectly strewed the ground, Even whel
people tried 10 recover their tempers the
usually got somebody's else, and it mad
the most dreadful mix.
( The little girl began to get frightened
keeping the secret all to herself she want