WHAT PA COT.

Lake County Press, Issue 2855, 23 September 1920, Page 7

WHAT PA COT.

He had played Santa Claus and made the whole household happy, and now he ia looking like a husband and father who has done his whole duty, but expects no reward for it. The wife leaves tho room for a moment, and returns with a hand behind her back to say:— “Pa, you are one of the best men in the world!” He smiles in a modest way. “You have made every single one of us happy.” 11 I’m glad of that.” “And don’t you imagine that we have not thought of you.” “Oh, 1 didn’t expect anything.” “But you had a right to expect, and we felt we had a duty to do. Leave pa out of Santa Claus? I guess not! Shut your eyes and hold out your hand.” “Now, ma!” “Do as I tell you, sir. There!” Pa opens his hand and looks, and there on his palm is a slip of paper. It is the monthly gas bHI. It is for fourteen shillings. It had been paid by his loving wife from the change that had rolled out of his pockets during the last month. Ah, but the happy happiness of Christmas!