Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-12-29

looked at his wife.
"An' then Sanity Claus'll bring me
big doll, won't he" she went on, IAN y
horaey for Ned, and a wabbit wot
squeaks for b0by?"
All these and more they had hoped to
have given the children, but now
1t is hard to comprehend the agony
| that can come from such little thing.
To he unable to satisfy such trifling de-
! sires, to crush such little hopes, seems
! insufficient 10 cause real suffering in
older hearts, but these parents felt more
sorrow in disappointing their darlings
than in all their other misfortuncs.
And to Jane Parlae the Christmas gifts
were invested with more than a holiday
meaning-thCy were things filled with
II sort of sacred ceremony, with fetch
like value, and she had feeling Of
shock, as though the solid earth had
rocked, in contemplating Christmas
without a tree and presents for the chill
| dren and win.
"Maybe Santa Claus will not come"
she said, gently, and wondered az she
heard her own voice uttering such a
statement!
"Why, he always comes to good chill
And lse been just the coolest girl ever
seen for ever 50 long ~
AN I've been gooder n her, amt l,
mamma 2 cried Ned, complacently.
"Guess there never was such good
boy anywhere" at the same time keep
! ing Il hand over q new hole in the knee
Of his stocking.
Mrs Parlee's thoughts drifted back to
her own childhood, 10 merry hours with
each wish anticipated, its rich gifts, its
\ Joyous festivals, and she sighed again
I For her parents had been wealthy, and
in marrying William she had cut away
from the brightest prospects and for
| tnitCI the affection of her family, none
| OF whom she had seen for years.
Monday morning William Parlee rose
before the winter sun All day long he
\ trampad the streets. The snow had
1 turned 70 rich, black slush, as snow does
In New York, ankle deep in most places
and knee-dcep in unsupported spots. 4
cold cutting rain fell steadily, soaking
his thin clothes and chilling him to the
! bone
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would have been dilficult-to-day it was
dishourtcnmg indeed To one more ac.
Gustomed 10 seeking situation 1t might
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ani thus put himself at q disadvantage
at the start,
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