Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-12-10
The Christmas Fairy.

sure it's a small bit o Christmas
they'll be after having the craythers.
said Mrs. ODooligan. wiping the tears
from her eyes with corner of her apron.
Tor it's neither bite nor sup we've got
about the place 2tyant just bread and
butter ANA dish O tay."
Aud the neighbor into whose Sympa-
thetlc ears she poured this tale OF woe
was sorry enough for poor Widow ODoo-
hgan, but what could She do with only
4 goose to- 20 the rounds OF her own blg
family AS She went out through the
duoryard, ON her way 10 her own home
cabin, she saw the three little oDooli-
gan children playing with the pig by the
steps
'ltS wonder she doesn't have the
pig for Christmas, thought the neigh
hor, But that was because she did not
know that piggie must hc saved to pay
next months rent and to buy Tins shoes
and Nora'S hood and Sarah's coax and
many more things that would never come
their way if they Should have the pig
for Christmas dinner,
Come in, all OF yez." called Mrs
O'DooHgan to her brood. as the dusk
crept up from the sea, "or its the rheu-
matiz ven all be a-getting."
But little the three cared for rheuma-
tIsm. They were having Il glorious good
time chasing piggie around the yard, and
il was not until their mother had come out
after them that they at last crept into
the cabin and remembered that tomorrow
would bc Christmas day
And its our stockings We'll be hang
ing up there" said Tim, pointing 10 the
chimney corner.
And ali full of holes they be-" sighed
motherly little Sarah, who. though only
II, was "all of a woman, and would
make two of yez ony day" as her mother
~ VIM In
with his work.
But you can cobble thin up so SO as
nothiug'll drop out O thhL' wheedlcd
Tim, "'cause We just mus, hang thin
up
So Sarah cobhled as best she could till
the holes were So small that a gumdrop
could not have slipped through them.
"Anu uothmgll be dropping out OF
thin, Ia. thought their mother FOR
nothing II ever 90 into thin, begorraH'
And there's three nails already for
them" laughed Tim. The fairies wont
care if they're rusty will they, and bent
Now make a hole near the top Of me
stocking. There. over il goes that's IT,
"And mine," begged Baby Norah. her
big, blue eyes dancing, "and will II be
full full in tn morning?
Their scant supper of potatoes over,
they were soon fast asleep. Norah IN
straw an the aoor and dreaming OF ali
the fnirieS wonld bring them before
morning Bpt Tim was lust In the mid
die Of his dream when something woke
him up. and looking over toward the
chimney plare. where the peat fire still
9mouldered, he saw his mother weeping,
and rockinp herself TO and fro.
and what ails yp?" he asked anxious
IL. running over 10 her. us il looking
far Tho fairies va
"I's looking nj Thin little stockings,
am She sohhed "and we wild never am
grunge or an annie TO nut inside o. thin
md Tho bobv TOO. widout 50 much AS n
IN of candy for her Christmas. at all.
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