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 THE CHRISTMAS DREAM 
 
 OF LITTLE CHARLES. 
 
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 One Christmas eve, little 
 Charles Estahrook hiino- his 
 stocking carefully by the chim- 
 ney corner, and, after saying 
 his prayers, got into bed, and 
 soon fell asleep. Charles was 
 a good little boy ; he was fond 
 of horses, and took pleasnie 
 in feeding them and attending 
 to their wants. On the day pi'e- 
 vious, a traveller came aluncr- 
 his horse was thirsty; so litrle 
 Charles got a pail, filled it with 
 
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 water, and gave the horse to 
 drink, for which the traveller 
 rewarded him by giving him a 
 shining. 
 
 But, although so fond of 
 horses, little Charles was not 
 unmindful of the claims of his 
 sister Lizzy, as she was famil- 
 iarly called, and, in pleasant 
 weather, would go out to walk 
 with her. In the engraving 
 opposite, they are on their way 
 to school together, and have 
 stopped that he may tie her 
 shoe, which has become un- 
 fastened. 
 
 Charles dreamed that he was 
 in bed, peeping at his stock- 
 ing, over the bed-clothes, when 
 he saw a very pleasant-looking 
 old gentleman come down the 
 chimney, on a nice little pony, 
 
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 precisely like the one named 
 Lightfoot, that his Uncle Ben 
 had promised to give him. It 
 was funny, indeed, to see the 
 pony slide down feet foremost, 
 and Charles could not help 
 laughing ; but he laughed still 
 louder, when he examined Old 
 Nicholas the rider. His hair 
 was made of crackers, and as 
 he came nearer and nearer to 
 the lamp, that stood on the 
 hearth, pop went off one of 
 rhe crackers, then another, and 
 then another. But St. Nicho- 
 las was not a bit frightened ; 
 he only rubbed his ears with 
 his coat-sleeve, patted the pony 
 to keep him quiet, and laughed 
 till he showed the concave of 
 his great moutK full of sugar- 
 phims. 
 
OF LITTLE CHARLES. 7 
 
 " He was chubby and plump, 
 
 A right jolly old elf — 
 Charley laughed when he saw him, 
 
 In spite of himself; 
 While a wink of his eye, 
 
 A twist of his head, 
 Soon gave him to know 
 
 He had nothing to dread." 
 
 Charles was excessively de- 
 lighted, and shouted so loud 
 that his mother thought he had 
 the nightmare. He watched 
 the old gentleman closely, and 
 then looked at his stocking. It 
 hung very conveniently. " He 
 can't put the pony in it," said 
 he to himself; *' that's a pity/' 
 
 The old gentleman's pock- 
 ets stuck out prodigiously, and 
 he panted and puffed as if he 
 had been cudgelling aii alii 
 gator. 
 
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 CHRISTMAS DREAM 
 
 ** Well," said he, wiping the 
 perspiration off his face, al- 
 though it was the 25th of De- 
 cember, ^' if this is not hard 
 work. Eighty-five youngsters 
 have 1 called on the last hour. 
 Hark ! St. Michael's sounds 
 
 loud down the chimney. One, 
 two. I shall have a tough job, 
 from two o'clock till daylight, 
 topping down the chimneys 
 Tom the Battery to the High 
 bridge. I wonder what this 
 
OF LITTLE CHARLES. 9 
 
 chap would like for a Christ- 
 mas present," continued he, 
 eying the stocking ; then put- 
 ting his arms akimbo, he began 
 to consider. Charles's heart 
 beat. " Good Mr. Nicholas/^ 
 said he to himself, '' if you 
 could only give me that pony." 
 But he kept quite still, for ho 
 saw the old man put his hands 
 into his tremendous pockets. 
 ^' Let me see," said old Nich^ 
 olas, ^*here is a jack-knife that 
 I was to have given Tommy 
 Battle, if he had not quarrelled 
 with his sisters. Open sesa- 
 me !" The stocking opened, 
 and in went the jack-knife. It 
 was the very thing that Charles 
 wanted. One after another the 
 old gentleinan pulled out tops, 
 twine, marbles, dissected maps, 
 
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 CHRISTMAS DREAM 
 
 picture-books, sugar-plums, be- 
 sides divers other notions, all 
 the while talking to himself. 
 
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 " This drum," said he, ^^ is for 
 Tom Barnwell, a clever little 
 fellow wno never tells lies. 
 These pretty little fish-hooks 
 and line Master Troup must 
 have, for his patient care of 
 his father when he was sick. 
 This mask is for Orace Allen ; 
 he must not use it to frighten 
 Httle children, or I shall re- 
 
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OF LITTLE CHARLES, 11 
 
 member it when Christmas 
 comes again. Let me see, I 
 will give this globe to Joseph 
 Dudley, who is a studious boy, 
 
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 and he will make a good use 
 of it. This pretty annual was 
 for William Wiley, but the lad 
 kicked his brother, and called 
 him a bad name, so I will lay 
 it by for George Wilde." 
 
 Charles thought he could 
 stay for ever to see the old 
 gentleman take out his knick- 
 nacks, and tell who they were 
 for ; but he began to be a little 
 fi'ia-htened for his own stock- 
 ing, when he recollected that 
 he had been remiss in his Latin 
 the last quarter. '' I hope the 
 old cj^ntleman does not under- 
 stand the classics," said Char- 
 ley to himself; but he stopped 
 short, for his queer visiter held 
 up the stocking, saying, ^' I 
 think this lad loves gunpowder 
 by the smell of his stocking." 
 
OF LITTI.E CHARLES. 13 
 
 He tlien took hold of bis hair, 
 and pulling out crackers by 
 the dozen from his head, tied 
 them up into neat parcels, and 
 threw them into the stockino;. 
 As fast as he pulled them off, 
 new crackers appeared, and 
 hung down over his ears and 
 forehead. " This accounts for 
 the noise we hear on Christ- 
 mas," said Charles ; " I never 
 knew who made all the crack- 
 ers !" and he had to hold his 
 sides for laughing, the old man 
 looked so droll. 
 
 When the old gentleman 
 stoopc d over the light to put a 
 new supply in the stocking, an 
 unusual number exploded, and 
 the little pony giving a start up 
 the chimney, disappeared. _ 
 Charles awoke ; it was just 
 
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 daylight. He sprung out of 
 bt^d, roused all the family with 
 his '' Merry Christmas," rau to 
 the stable, and what should he 
 
 
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 see, but Uncle Ben's little po- 
 ny, with a baiter on his neck, on 
 which was tied a piece of pa 
 per, written, '* A merry Chi'ist- 
 mas, with the [)ony Liglitfoot, 
 for my nephew Charles !" 
 
 THE LITTLE COLT. 
 
 SPOKEN BY A LITTLE R01f. 
 
 Pray how shall I, a little lad, 
 In speaking make a figure ; 
 
 You are but jesting, I'm afraid, 
 Do wait till I am bigger. 
 
 But since you wish to hear my part, 
 
 And urge me to begin it, 
 I'll strive for praise witb all my art, 
 
 Tliough small my chance to win it 
 
 I'll tell a tab; how Farmer John 
 A little roan co't bred, sir. 
 
 And every night and every morn 
 He watered and he fed, sir. 
 
16 THE LITTLE COLT. 
 
 Said Neighbor Joe, to Farmer John, 
 *' You surely are a dolt, sir, 
 
 To spend such daily care upon 
 A little useless colt, sir." 
 
 The farmer answered wondering Joe, 
 " I bring my Uttle roan up, 
 
 Not for the good he now can do. 
 But may do when he's grown up." 
 
 The moral you may plainly see, 
 To keep the tale from spoiling ; 
 
 The little colt you think is me— 
 I know it by your smiling. 
 
 I now entreat you to excuse 
 My lisping and my stammers, 
 
 Aind, since you've learned my parent's 
 views, 
 I'll humbly make my manners. 
 
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