A LITTLE BOOK OF CHRISTMAS. John Kendrick Bangs

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       John Kendrick Bangs

      A LITTLE BOOK OF CHRISTMAS

      Children's Classic - Humorous Stories & Poems for the Holiday Season

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      2017 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-7583-927-5

      Table of Contents

       A Toast to Santa Clause

       The Conversion of Hetherington

       A Merry Christmas Pie

       The Child Who Had Everything But

       A Holiday Wish

       Santa Clause and Little Billee

       Christmas Eve

       The House of the Seven Santas

      A Toast to Santa Clause

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      Whene'er I find a man who don't

       Believe in Santa Claus,

       And spite of all remonstrance won't

       Yield up to logic's laws,

       And see in things that lie about

       The proof by no means dim,

       I straightway cut that fellow out,

       And don't believe in him.

       The good old Saint is everywhere

       Along life's busy way.

       We find him in the very air

       We breathe day after day—

       Where courtesy and kindliness

       And love are joined together,

       To give to sorrow and distress

       A touch of sunny weather.

       We find him in the maiden's eyes

       Beneath the mistletoe,

       A-sparkling as the star-lit skies

       All golden in their glow.

       We find him in the pressure of

       The hand of sympathy,

       And where there's any thought of love

       He's mighty sure to be.

       So here's to good old Kindliheart!

       The best bet of them all,

       Who never fails to do his part

       In life's high festival;

       The worthy bearer of the crown

       With which we top the Saint.

       A bumper to his health, and down

       With them that say he ain't!