Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1890 — He Will Hang Up Both Stockings. [ARTICLE]

He Will Hang Up Both Stockings.

“Mamma,” asked Dick, plaintively, “am I all the children we’ve got?” “Yes, dear,” answered mamma, smiling at his curious plural and pronoun. “Then,” said Dick, with decision, “I shall hang up both stockings next year so they’ll just touch the floor easy, and ask Santa Claus to please put a foot in each, with a little brother onto ’em. I’m tired of playing I’m a family all the time. ” — Time.