The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-12-25
What 3 New England Boy Heard
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Well. Old Uncle Santa. its near
about time you were round among The
girls and boys again, Got anything
new for them this visit9"
I could tell you heaps Of things,
Uncle Santa, hear the young folks
say about you, because am around in
places after you've made your calls,
hear them say that you left the sweet
est little dollies and the cutest little
cradles. and tops, and Irumpets, and
ShoJguns; sad one said bicycles now
days. bigger than q 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
filing their stockings with candies AMI
little pineushions. and shining lockets
and chains, and one of them sad:
Right down where her big toe goes
she found 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. UneleT~
Yes. Johnnie. I see and remember
every little stocking that's ever hung
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worn 10 hold what I put in I used
10 say that the little girls with good
stockings might lend one, for Christ
mas tine. 10 poor little girls that have
stockings with holes in them; but few
of them liked that way. so 1 started
: 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 st Sunday
School house in every town, where they
can all go and get pretty things and
lots Of cake and candy. too"
I know, Uncle Santa, all about your
last little scheme, and its the jolliest
thing you ever did Why, CHANGED TO
look in al two Of your jolly Christmas
trees; one was in London and the
other in New York happened 10 lie
Iat those places the same time as your
self II was the jollieSt sight I ever
saw, I 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 g picture Of your own self up IN
the trees. with eznnons and glass mar
bIss for the boys,
What makes me- remember il most
vas because / had spread snow all
over the streets and fields the night be
fore. and had put q good thickness of
lice On the ponds, so that the boys you
brought new skates for could run down
and III them Some Of the boys,
though. had their toes out of their
boots. and some with no shoes or stock
iing AZ all. and I felt mighty ashamed
lat Ehat / had done"
Well, Johnnie. it is little bad for
some Of them, but they like you all
the same Why. sometimes when
have given the girls and boys heaps Of
things, they forget ali about them in
q minute if ron come along, and they
rush out into the snow. shouting: 'Hur-
trzhl Jack Frost is here again.
Then you know. Johnnie, 1 go TO
countries that ron never visit; but I
never take skates there. Little Billy
Thav lives IL those countries, and he
neFer leaves Honolulu. which is
green little town upon an isle away
down in the Southern SEA"
I guess. Uncle Santa, il is pretty
nice in those countries, but il is q lot
TOO hot for me. I know Billy Thaw,
for Ee met pretty often, and not al
ways OF the best Of terms Billy both
ers me al times. and ne says 1 bother
him, b. going where he says I have no
right 10 60 Sometimes We come TO
bIo~s, and drive one another up and
d0sn The Land
I am glad you say. Uncle Santa.
that the boys and girls ike me- 10 come
around with you cannot always. but
always do if ! can. love TO pop in
just The same night that you 90 round.
and hear the young folks wake up
Christmas morning, With the snow all
sudden and bright, One visit 1
shall never forget came down Iels-
ureiy from ny chief residence IN North
PoIeIsnd and zn.- Y T. A. W En-