People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1895 — Christmas Stockings. [ARTICLE]

Christmas Stockings.

A street urchin stood peering into the window of a toyshop one evening just before Christmas watching a prosperous father buying presents. Bigger and bigger the boy’s eyes grew as the purchasing went on. Finally, when it was all over and the man left the store, the lad sidled up to him and with great diffldenoe asked: “Wuzall them things you bought fer one boy, mister?” “Why, yes, certainly,” said the man impatiently as he turned away with the bundles under his arms. The street boy’s eyes grew bigger yet. “Gee whiz!” he whispered under his breath. “Rich men’s boys must wear awful big stockings!”