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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 300, 19 December 1922, Page 7

Fit yourself out in fine footweaT this Xmas. Xew men's shoes showing al Firm of Fo-wlds.— (Ad.)

A Merry Christmas foijou" Cried Scrooge (lUOLLO! Whoop ! Hollo there! Do you know where II the nearest, bookshop is ? You do? Delightful boy! *~a * WeU V go th^! e "K. buv « H tbe book*. Tell them to send them here. Come hock in less then five inmates end 111 give yon half e crown." —iJJ' ll some •? Bob Cr»tchH. , s !" whispered Scrooge, Christmas!" They wrero Books. They stood mountain high. To topple them over would drown the lustiest peal of the ding, dongiog. clammeri&g, clanging, glorious bells. "Must have a cab," said Scrooge. T fl e chuckle with which he said this, and the chuckle with which he paid for the books, and the chackle with which he paid for the ceb. and the chuckle with which he recompensed the boy, were only to be exceeded by the chuckle with which he sat, down breathless and chuckled till he cried. And they had the Dickens of a happy time that* Christmas. It. was simply won-der-ful, the pleasure those books gave and are still giving. Books for everyone. For fat folk and thin folk ; for happy folk and sad folk; for t*all folk and short folk ; for old folk and young folk. That was a Christmas if ever there was one. As Tiny Tim observed. Cod bless everyone that makes this Christmas a Book Christmas !'*