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-  THE
-
-  CHRISTMAS DREAM
-
-  OF
-
-  LITTLE CHARLES.
-
-  [Illustration: Line drawing of a colt]
-
-  NEW YORK:
-
-  PUBLISHED BY J. S. REDFIELD
-
-  CLINTON HALL
-
-  [Illustration: Man on a horse]
-
-
-
-
-
-  THE CHRISTMAS DREAM
-
-  OF LITTLE CHARLES.
-
-  [Illustration: Decorative scroll]
-
-
-ONE Christmas eve, little Charles Estabrook hung his
-stocking carefully by the chimney 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 pleasure
-in feeding them and attending to their wants. On the day
-previous, a traveller came along; his horse was thirsty; so
-little Charles got a pail, filled it with water, and gave the
-horse to drink, for which the traveller rewarded him by
-giving him a shilling.
-
-[Illustration: Tying a shoe lace]
-
-But, although so fond of horses, little Charles was not
-unmindful of the claims of his sister Lizzy, as she was
-familiarly 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 unfastened.
-
-Charles dreamed that he was in bed, peeping at his stocking,
-over the bed-clothes, when he saw a very pleasant-looking
-old gentleman come down the chimney, on a nice little pony,
-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 the crackers, then another, and
-then another. But St. Nicholas 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 mouth, full of sugar-plums.
-
-  “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 delighted, 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.”
-
-[Illustration: Church tower]
-
-The old gentleman’s pockets stuck out prodigiously, and he
-panted and puffed as if he had been cudgelling an alligator.
-“Well,” said he, wiping the perspiration off his face,
-although it was the 25th of December, “if this is not hard
-work. Eighty-five youngsters have I 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,
-popping down the chimneys from the Battery to the High bridge.
-I wonder what this chap would like for a Christmas present,”
-continued he, eying the stocking; then putting 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 he saw the old
-man put his hands into his tremendous pockets. “Let me see,”
-said old Nicholas, “here is a jack-knife that I was to have
-given Tommy Battle, if he had not quarrelled with his sisters.
-Open sesame!” The stocking opened, and in went the jack-knife.
-It was the very thing that Charles wanted. One after another
-the old gentleman pulled out tops, twine, marbles, dissected
-maps, picture-books, sugar-plums, besides divers other
-notions, all the while talking to himself. “This drum,” said
-he, “is for Tom Barnwell, a clever little fellow who 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 little children, or I shall remember it when
-Christmas comes again. Let me see, I will give this globe to
-Joseph Dudley, who is a studious boy, 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.”
-
-[Illustration: Drum]
-
-[Illustration: Mask]
-
-[Illustration: Globe]
-
-Charles thought he could stay for ever to see the old
-gentleman take out his knicknacks, and tell who they were
-for; but he began to be a little frightened for his own
-stocking, when he recollected that he had been remiss in his
-Latin the last quarter. “I hope the old gentleman does not
-understand the classics,” said Charley 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.” He then took hold of his hair, and pulling
-out crackers by the dozen from his head, tied them up into
-neat parcels, and threw them into the stocking. 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 Christmas,” said Charles; “I never knew who made all
-the crackers!” and he had to hold his sides for laughing,
-the old man looked so droll.
-
-[Illustration: Bed]
-
-When the old gentleman stooped 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.
-
-[Illustration: Horse]
-
-Charles awoke; it was just daylight. He sprung out of bed,
-roused all the family with his “Merry Christmas,” ran to the
-stable, and what should he see, but Uncle Ben’s little pony,
-with a halter on his neck, on which was tied a piece of
-paper, written, “A merry Christmas, with the pony Lightfoot,
-for my nephew Charles!”
-
-[Illustration: Decorative scroll]
-
-
-
-
-  THE LITTLE COLT.
-
-  SPOKEN BY A LITTLE BOY.
-
-
-  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 with all my art,
-    Though small my chance to win it.
-
-  I’ll tell a tale how Farmer John
-    A little roan colt bred, sir,
-  And every night and every morn
-    He watered and he fed, sir.
-
-  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 little 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,
-  And, since you’ve learned my parent’s views,
-    I’ll humbly make my manners.
-
-[Illustration: Decorative scroll]
-
-
-
-
-  J. S. REDFIELD,
-
-  PUBLISHER AND BOOKSELLER,
-
-  137 Nassau Street,
-
-  CORNER OF NASSAU AND BEEKMAN STS.,
-
-  NEW YORK,
-
-  Keeps on hand a good supply of
-
-  TOY BOOKS, SCHOOL BOOKS,
-
-  MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS,
-
-  MEDICAL BOOKS,
-
-  AND
-
-  STATIONERY.
-
-  *.* _Country Merchants supplied at the
-  Lowest Price._
-
-  ——O——
-
-  JUST PUBLISHED,
-
-  REDFIELD’S TOY BOOKS,
-
-  Four Series of Twelve Books each,
-
-  BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED,
-
-  _Price, One, Two, Four, and Six Cents_.
-
-
-
-
-Transcriber's Note
-
-Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores,
-_like this_. Dialect, obsolete and alternative spellings
-were left unchanged. Descriptions of illustrations added.
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