SCAMPS SURPEISE. I had a surprise to-day. When I got up I was surprised too.It is Christmas, so my master tells me. I expect Christmas meanshaving a good time. Dont it mean that ? The first thing I saw when I came into the parlor was a big treeall full of pretty things. Its funny to see a tree all… … that. Then my master Baid, Scamp, come here, I have got asurprise for you. What do you think it was I Why, a big box.It was marked, To Mr. Scamp. My master told me it came°fromNew York. Now my cousin Amy lives in New York. Of Krone,she is not my cousin, only my masters; but it is all the same.…
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