StNicholas [serial] . see Mr. Page, and when heentered, Maude, who sat on her fathers knee,sprang up, exclaiming, Why, it s SantaClaus! No, miss, said the man, at once ; I aintSanta Claus. And then, speaking rapidly, he told the whole story of Maggies happy ex-pectancy, and her empty stocking; of the openwindow., and the doll like the one of Maggiesfancy; how Maudes trust had shamed him;For, he said, I aint no thief—leastways,not ever before; how the thought of theempty stocking had turned the scale ; and ofMaggies rapture when the doll greeted heropening eyes; and he wound up by beggi
StNicholas [serial] . see Mr. Page, and when heentered, Maude, who sat on her fathers knee,sprang up, exclaiming, Why, it s SantaClaus! No, miss, said the man, at once ; I aintSanta Claus. And then, speaking rapidly, he told the whole story of Maggies happy ex-pectancy, and her empty stocking; of the openwindow., and the doll like the one of Maggiesfancy; how Maudes trust had shamed him;For, he said, I aint no thief—leastways,not ever before; how the thought of theempty stocking had turned the scale ; and ofMaggies rapture when the doll greeted heropening eyes; and he wound up by beggingMr. Page to punish him in any way he chose,but not to take her one treasure from innocentMaggie. And Mr. Pages eyes rilled with tears as helooked at his own little daughter, and thoughtof the other child in the bare tenement withher one treasure. To the man he gave work, that he mightrepay by honest labor the price of the doll;and to this day the crowning glory of Maggieslife is the doll that Santa Claus 1
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