St Nicholas [serial] . FATHER TIME WAS AT HIS WITS END TO KNOW WHAT TO DO. (SEE PAGE 171.) THE. PURLOINED CHRISTMAS. By Gelett Burgess. None of the Vernal Months had heard any- enter, but had purred musically, the whole night thing, for they had slept too soundly in their through, in their rose-hung apartments on the pink spring beds on the ground floor. They second floor of the House of Annum. Au- were a dimpled, blushing trio, the youngest gusta had heard absolutely nothing. But, and gayest daughters of old Father Time, then, every one knew she was a very sleepy Mistress May had twined arbut
St Nicholas [serial] . FATHER TIME WAS AT HIS WITS END TO KNOW WHAT TO DO. (SEE PAGE 171.) THE. PURLOINED CHRISTMAS. By Gelett Burgess. None of the Vernal Months had heard any- enter, but had purred musically, the whole night thing, for they had slept too soundly in their through, in their rose-hung apartments on the pink spring beds on the ground floor. They second floor of the House of Annum. Au- were a dimpled, blushing trio, the youngest gusta had heard absolutely nothing. But, and gayest daughters of old Father Time, then, every one knew she was a very sleepy Mistress May had twined arbutus around their maid. room, and little April had spread the floor with Nor were the Autumnal Virgins aware of pussy-willow; so soft that one could hear never the robbery, and the Winter Months had not a footfall. awakened. And yet a great misfortune had The Summer Sisters, too, had heard no one fallen upon the house where dwelt the twelveVol. XXV.—22. 169 170 THE PURLOINED CHRISTMAS. [Dec. Maiden Months in the four s
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