This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... himself to find the importance attached to him; while Robbie followed him, and was of great assistance in handing up string, or tacks, or whatever he required. And when Nurse announced that Cook had brought the pudding into the school-room, and begged all the household might stir it, or else it would be a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... himself to find the importance attached to him; while Robbie followed him, and was of great assistance in handing up string, or tacks, or whatever he required. And when Nurse announced that Cook had brought the pudding into the school-room, and begged all the household might stir it, or else it would be a failure, with what shouts of laughter they trooped into the room, to find Cook with a long spoon in one hand and the kitchen cat clasped in the other. "Why, Cook," said Aunt Patience, "is Tib to stir it also?" "Yes, miss," was the reply, "she'll help too;" and, with pussy's paw placed over the handle of the spoon and tightly grasped by her, she gravely advanced to table and made the cat, to the poor creature's intense surprise, stir it round so vigorously that, with a protesting yell, puss sprang from her hold and vanished down the stairs. When with much laughter the pudding had been stirred, and Cook had retired with it, Aunt Patience suggested it was time for bed, hinting also that those soonest asleep might expect the most from Santa Claus. "Oh! dear old St. Nicholas," cried Lily: "When we are asleep Father Christmas comes--How he comes we do not know; But he fills each stocking with sugar-plums And with toys from top to toe." "What bosh!" said Duke; "I'm too wide-awake to believe in such rubbish, and too old. to hang my socks up." "I shall hang mine up," said Robbie; "won't you yours, Lily?" "Of course I shall," she replied. "I'm only a little girl yet; and Duke, you're only a boy. We're not grown-up people like dear Papa and Auntie, and "--here she bent towards him and softly whispered--"if you don't, you'll get...
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