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THE CHILDREN’S BOOK OF CHRISTMAS
THE
CHILDREN’S BOOK
OF CHRISTMAS
Compiled by
J. C. DIER
The MACMILLAN COMPANY
1911
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1911,
BY
THE MACMILLAN
COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped.
Published, October, 1911.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
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IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?
[This question addressed to The Sun, New York, received this reply.]
We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently thecommunication below, expressing at the same time our great gratificationthat its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:—
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been afflicted bythe scepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except they see.They think that