. More about live dolls . n their little night-dresses. Mamma doll was even carrying the baby and the wee ones were rubbing their eyes. Every one of them wanted to know what was the matter. Dinah was at the rear end of this undress parade, and she was such a comical sight that Santa Claus went off into another peal of laughter. She wore yellow pajamas, and a turban of the same glowing color. With her poor 76 MORE ABOUT LIVE DOLLS feet going the wrong way, she was apicture long to be remembered. Janie introduced Santa Claus, and themerry saint, after greeting them cheerily,told of his life and
. More about live dolls . n their little night-dresses. Mamma doll was even carrying the baby and the wee ones were rubbing their eyes. Every one of them wanted to know what was the matter. Dinah was at the rear end of this undress parade, and she was such a comical sight that Santa Claus went off into another peal of laughter. She wore yellow pajamas, and a turban of the same glowing color. With her poor 76 MORE ABOUT LIVE DOLLS feet going the wrong way, she was apicture long to be remembered. Janie introduced Santa Claus, and themerry saint, after greeting them cheerily,told of his life and related many interest-ing things that had happened during hisyearly trips. He wound up by tellingthem that, in all the years he had beentravelling, he had never had such a novelexperience as this; that it had been agreat delight to him to behold thismiracle, and that hereafter he would takemore interest than ever in the manufac-turing of dolls, and would be very carefulto know that each was perfect before itleft the MORE ABOUT LIVE DOLLS After he had finished, he bade themreturn to their beds so he could fill theirstockings and be off. The dolls filed out,and, giving Janie and Rosabell each a rous-ing kiss, he placed them on the couch, andtucked them in as tenderly as any mother. He turned their faces to the wall andmade them promise not to peek, butthey listened, trying in vain to guess whathe was putting in the stockings. Whilethis operation was going on, the poemkept saying itself in Janies brain asthough it had not been interrupted bySantas coming: He went straight to his work, filled all of thestockings, then turned with a jerk. MORE ABOUT LIVE DOLLS Here Janie heard him stamping out thefew remaining live coals. Then laying his finger aside of his nose,And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose,And she heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of r sight: Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good-night. She put her arms about Rosabell andwhispered with a contented sigh: Isn
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