A LETTER TO SANTA CLAUS.

Evening Star, Issue 13002, 22 December 1906, Page 7

A LETTER TO SANTA CLAUS.

Dear Santa Claus, please don't forget to call at our house. Our little kids will watch for you, each “ quiet as a mouse ” ; Unless the sand man comes too soon and shuts some blinking eyes That wait the coining reindeer sleigh from out the starry skies. There’s Tom, and Ben. and Sue, and Kate, and little blue-eyed brother, And mp—but I'm the oldest one, so ’bout me doit i you bother; If Tom could have a painted sled, and Ben could have a top, WbCfi one gets tired of using his, why, they could make a swap. If Sue ctnld have a pretty doll, and Kate could have some dishes, Our todJLng brother have a book with painted birds and fishes; And if it ain't against your rule to sometimes think of others, L want to tell you that wc tho very best of mothers. One year ago our father died, ami left us in the keep Of God in h'-aten; and every night, before wc go to sleep, NVe kneel at mother’s knee and say “ Father, who art in heaven ”; And mother whispers tenderly; “Let us all bo forgiven,” So, Santa Claus, if you will be to ns so kind and good. Please fiU tho smallest stocking first, and then, if you but would. Skip mine and leave some little gift for loving mother dear, ’We’ll have a welcome Christmas Day, though father is not here.