Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 141
own house. What a romping-lime ! Roby wassix — Essie was four. They climbed up on himat once, and he tumbled them and rolled themabout as if they had been made of India rubber, 128 A SCHEMING OLD SANTA CLAUS. [December, and motherly little Betty all the while puttingon the supper and smiling… … THAT S FOR YOUR DINNER, NED SAID. did not. They just said their prayers, put theirheads on their pillows, and the house was still. Papa Ned and Betty sat in front of the cozygrate fire smiling lovingly at each other until it wasquite certain that the little ones were sound asleep.Then Papa Ned…
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