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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 73, 19 December 1925, Page 25

..An*ariiusing Christmas experience reaches me from an uncle not a Broadcasting uncle nor even a pawnbroker, but an ordinary avuncular relative of an ordinary nephew. .The nephew, whose name is James, appears to combine all that is best in things 'traditional with the most advanced ideas of modernity. Thus it was that my friend the uncle, in the seasonable discharge of his avuncular functions, . tip-toed on Christmas Eve into James’s room, under the impression (though quite sober) that he was Father Christmas.' He found a “plusfour” stocking hanging up, and therein he carefully placed a gift, which immediately disappeared. Upon investigation, he found that- a kit-bag had been attached beneath and the foot of tlie stocking removed. It is so long since I met Father Christmas that I forget the etiquette of the business, but I suspect that tlie> socking has to be stuffed full. At any rate, the uncle smiled at the ingenuity of the child's attempt to beguile an innocent old philanthropist into bestowing a whole kit-bag of gifts. On arraying himself next day for a Christmas round of golf with his host he found that one of his stockings was without a foot!