The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-24
CWhat a New England Boy Heard
Them SayO

CWhat a New England Boy Heard
Them Say)
We'll, Old Uncle Santa, its near
about time you were round among the
girls and boys again. Got anything
new for them this visit?'
4 could tell you heaps of things,
Uncle Santa, 1 hear the young folks
say about you, because 1 am around in
places after you've made your calls.
l hear them say that you left the sweet
est little dollies and the cutest little
shotguns; and one said bicycles now a
days, bigger than boy can stride. 1t
would make you warm all over, Uncle
Santa, if you'd heard what two little
girls in Boston were saying about you
Filling their stockings with candies and
little pincushions, and shining lockets
and chains. and one of them SAID:
Right down where her big toe goes
she found a real gold ring!
"One little girl, though, Uncle Santa,
said you left nothing in her stocking;
and she said very likely it was be-
cause it was old and had hole in it.
Do you remember any stocking like
that, UncIe?"
Eyes, Johnnie | see and remember
every little stocking that's ever hung
out. Only, boy, some one too old and
worn to hold what [ put in. l used
10 say that the little girls with good
stockings might lend one, for Christ
mas time, to poor little girls that have
stockings with holes in them; but few
of them liked that way, so l started
a new way, Johnnie, and now l tell
them, whose stockings let the things
drop through, that I shall leave some
thing for all of them at Sunday
School house in every town, where they
can all go and get pretty things, and
lots of cake and candy, too
Il know, Uncle Santa, all about your
| last little scheme, and it's the jolliest
thing you ever did. Why, [ CHANGED to
look in at two of your jolly Christmas
trees; one was in London and the
other in New York. [ happened to lie
at those places the same time as your
self 1t was the jolliest sight l ever
saw, l tell you, Uncle Santa, both the
girls and boys opened their eyes at the
trees with the candles lit all over them,
and at the dolls dancing on branches,
and a picture of your own self up IN
the trees. with cannons and glass mar
bles for the boys!
What makes me remember it most
over the streets and fields the night be
fore, and had put a good thickness of
ice on the ponds. so that the boys you
brought new skates for could run down
and try them. Some of the boys,
though, had their toes out of their
boots, and some with no shoes or stock
ings at all, and 1 felt mighty ashamed
at what 1 had done"
We'll, Johnnie, it is little bad for
some of them, but they like you all
the same. Why, sometimes when l
have given the girls and boys heaps Of
things, they forget all about them in
a minute if you come along. and they
rush out into the snow, shouting: 'Hur-
rah! Jack Frost is here again!'
Then you know, Johnnie, l go to
countries that you never visit; but 1
never take skates there. Little Billy
Thaw lives in those countries. and he
never leaves Honolulu, which is a
green little town upon an isle. away
down in the Southern Sea"
4 guess, Uncle Santa, it is pretty
nice in those countries, but it is a lot
too hot for me. 1 know Billy Thaw,
for we met pretty often, and not al
ways on the best of terms. Billy both
ers me at times. and he says l bother
him. by going where he says have no
right to go. Sometimes we come to
blows, and drive one another up and
down the Land.
Il am glad you say, Uncle Santa,
that the boys and girls like me to come
around with you. l cannot always, but
always do if 1 can. l love to pop in
just the same night that you go round,
and hear the young folks wake Up
Christmas morning. with the snow all
sudden and bright. One visit I
shall never forget. l came down leIs-
urely from my chief residence in North
Poleland and got as far as New Eng