Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 189
turns with a bow to Fairy].There — there s your tree !The Three Somber Young Gentlemen [kneeling to Santa Claus]. We re loyal to your cause, sir.Santa Claus [slyly]. Am I a fraud ?The Three Young Gentlemen. (Lets go abroad !)Children all [■vociferously]. You re dear old Santa Claus, sir ! [All join… … By Ella S. Sargent. Portland, Maine, November, 1883. Dear St. Nicholas : I want to write a letterto every boy and every girl in the world. But if Ishould write steadily to-day, and to-morrow, andthe next day, and the next, and the next, and thenext, I should be an old lady with dim eyes…
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