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I shall take this to the post-office. Mamma says you will get it.

I have the very best mamma

you ever saw!

She is writing this letter for me.
I can not write so much.

Now good bye, dear Santa Claus.
Please send the dolly!

Your loving little friend,

For

EDITH.

Santa Claus,

City Post-Office.

SANTA CLAUS TO EDITH.

Santa sends you this dear doll

Rather than a letter.

Love her, Edith; all in all,
Santa has no better!

Always kind and always good,
Be, my dear, to dolly;
Finding fault and being rude

Is the worst of folly.

Gently treat her all the time;

Happy be to tend her; Harshness is next thing to crime, So, dear child, be tender.

Softly sing and speak but low;

Always be a lady;

That's the way good mothers do

Taking care of baby!

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Such things are the worst of folly!
Edith treats her doll so gently!
She is like a good little mother.
To me, harshness is next to a crime.

What a happy time Christmas is!
I am glad I am Santa Claus.

Merry, merry Christmas to all!

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I think when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus was here among men,

How He called little children as lambs to His fold,

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