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Yemen is one of my favorite absurdity or this, and how will we yeah typically roofing Israel earlier, but it's ok sure we can prosper. This is a good waiting to kick off the season for us agreed. We have like a whole month, just feel great, the train, that's what this is all about: shock the and great yeah. That's that's the Christmas Spirit, feeling great drinkin hot butter, drum man I'll tell you what they put me in the mood for it had never had one. I have anything like going to this year. I think I will be joining. If I didn't know you actually put butter in a drink yeah. I just thought I was called that does it was like buttery or something like a buttering apple yeah, that in a butter- and it sure does it

I just thought it was called that gives it was like buttery or something like a buttery nipple, yet that in a butter- and it sure doesn't I but That'S- coming up yellow second No, we don't spoil the hot butter run a segment. Yet we just wanted to say. Welcome to the Christmas extravaganza. Two thousand that's right, so chickens kicking off you ever heard of a little. Did he called rude off the redness ranging did he have a vision and in us? Yes, he did and if you saw it you might even say it clause. I think that you can probably say that people they were.

I agree that we have heard that. Ok, then you might not know that that actually based on a little poem from just a few decades ago, not at all you know so much of Christmas stuff is very, very all sure preference over its noakes get to the bottom of the origin story of rude offer. It knows reindeer yet well, we helped we use their material, but bearing the bottom of it. This is the real story that is well known. Ok, it's not like that crack the case

Merry Christmas Nope year are so rude off, we're being coy and all about the story. But the reason I had no idea the regional yeah Hark omitted nor the details, but I knew that it was. I knew it was not the version, and this is why we use knows, because a lot of people have heard the story that it was written by someone to provide comfort to his daughter S. Her mother was dying of cancer there and then they sold it to a department, store chain and cashed in that's right, not true know. Some of the facts are there, like the man's wife was dying of cancer through he did run advise daughter through by and there was a department store, not exactly, but yours is a little yeah. So us talk about this. There is man named Robert me. Any worked for a company called Montgomery, Ward, Chicago Illinois, based departments

hi in every year, Come reward is to give out coin books. Christmas theme, coloring books to kids, ended by them and just give them out as a little promo gimmick. Right in the head of the copyright in division said: you know what we could save a lot of money if we just made our own country book. But how are we gonna do is what will the story be? Robert man you're very good at this kind of thing of of writing: rhyming couplets for children. Why don't you get to work on this? A try any stamped out a cigarette in threw down his last class of Scotch because it was nineteen, thirty nine and he was at work right at Montgomery Worth a try. Any secure, I'll take a stab at this.

And he can make the little bit from the tailed ivy duckling here and make the little bit from his own childhood, because apparently he was a bit of a small child here on the outskirts, let's say of the popular growled, the fringe, the French, and he said you know what I think it can use this for a story about a little reindeer is also on the outside and on the French. But what's the name of chalk offices? I think we should use an illiterate of name is what he thought: the air because reindeer sure. So the first thing has to be: it began with an hour rollo. Now he tried Rollo here and they send. You know that's a little to care for Then they went Reginald, Nay said that's able to british year solicitor full German with Rudolf in nineteen. Thirty nine. Why not? He thought I was a little odd that he turned

Germany and in favour of an era. British newspaper, Germany, yet many ensure friends, final item That's right. So then he went on and I wrote the story and in rhyming couplets and did read it to us forward for Europe Butter, Barbara who loved. If I think it's funny fitzpiers there were four year olds need Barbara right back in such an lady name. Yet she loved it in his boss is like I like it, but this already- thing is: is a drunk reindeer because you know the old gin blossom and enough it's Christmas appropriate right in

and he said I don't- have a problem with a better customers. My mother may suspected that it was really the guy's reservations here, so he grabbed one of his buddies and the Copyright department, an artist and illustrator, and took him to the zoo and said see those dear make them cute and with a red nose. You attach it his first reaction to us, like you, gotta, be kidding me. No one's gonna think this rangers drunk right exactly so. With these drawings and hand, these illustrations of acute little reindeer with a red nose normally red nose. Robert may get the sign off to go ahead with this any produced. This little coloring booklet called rude off the Red Nose reindeer and it was an instant success here by the end of nineteen, forty six. They had given out a total of six million copies and then, of course, licensing started you up

their red nose in there and say: hey we'd love to license Rudolf causes great story, kids, love it and- and the creator was like- that's awesome, except I don't own it cause. I work for a company in anything, I create is owned by the company, even though I created it, I'm not gonna see any money from it right. I must be terrible yet, and so he went along his saddened way and then thought you know what maybe I'm going to for once in my life stand up for myself here, I'm in deep, deep, crushing dead because of the bills that I had to pay. The trading My wife, a lively diet of cancer yeah. It's been seven years of living under this dead. It's just me and my daughter, I created Rudolf. Let me go ask and he,

went to the head of Montgomery Ward, Sewell Avery, and in what proves there are Christmas miracles near Sewell. Every said, you know what we're gonna sign the copyright over to you any did yet its remarkable to think that a company with the revert rights to a successful thing created by a person, its awesome but I can't I can't identify withheld it's possible. I think it was a different day and age. I guess right, but I think also check. We look back at root, often and think it's just as culture. I cancer, I think in nineteen, forty six or forty seven, it hadn't blown up like that, yet it was still popular, but it wasn't until after Robert May secured the key

be right near that these song that wine we now know and love, was recorded yet written by his brother in law? Yeah Johnny marks just happen to know how to do that kind of thing. Dry and Johnny Marks actually rewrote a lot of this story. Let the details of the story same with the nineteen sixty four Stop motion, animation yeah that was burnt. The Berlin narrated showed still one of the greatest threats specials ever so, and they did take some liberties, though, which without this is probably one of more interesting part of the story, the original story, the rude off, wasn't one of them. Reindeer. No, not at all, he didn't live the north wall. He wasn't part of their whole plan and he wasn't a kid of any of the reindeer. Has reigned, had nothing to do with his

were embarrassed by his abnormality. Now, as a matter of fact, it says in this article that he was raised in a very healthy environment, yet positive self attitude. Yet he wasn't like that in the cartoon earn the US that motion man he's dislike the sad. Sailor discovers rude off by accident, yet he just delivering gifts on Christmas night and spots rude off in his room from the red glow and it happens to be a foggy night. Yeah. He just delivering gifts on Christmas night and spots, rude off in his room from the red glow and it happens to be a foggy Nightsy like hey. I think I can use this kid to complete. My rounds denied any did in when they got back Santa head. Some word asked, and the Great news is- is that mail at the rest of his life quite successful and even went back to work at Montgomery Word and non GMO, get it like really good life after the hidden

is that mail at the rest of his life quite successful and even went to work at Montgomery Word and non GMO. Get like really good life after that he didn't have to work any more, but he loved what he did. So he went back to work for him and that my is a story about offerings renew Chuck. We mention Christmas miracles in the rude off part there. There was something that happened last year, two dozen twelve Christmas details in twelve that a lot of people say was a Christmas miracle. At the very least, it was a sweet Christmas thing, there's little girl named MIA. Or Maya. I'm not sure. Am I a yes and ass. She was seven at the time and she lived in New York City and

we're gonna cholera. My fucking Maya now we're gonna, call me me. I had a dog, nay. Morally, who was a cavalier king, Charles Spaniel, which are very q, adorable, sweet dogs and Meyer, because they Meyer MIA, I think, he's a liar. I think as a mere ultimately hooker MIA and her mom were shopping for Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve and they left Marley tied up outside of the store therein and when they came up he was gone. That's right and thanks to video surveillance, another Christmas miracle, they saw that this jerk

stole the hawks stole the did you see that surveillance picked it up and walk away with animals? Is the door was clearly not happy to be mean handled by this guy now, but it's like, I am a king, Charles Spaniel. What can I do? That's right, so the sounds like not a Christmas miracle. Jasper sounds like the worst Christmas story ever yet. It was Christmas Eve that this happened. New girl said that she couldn't sleep. Tat night is just too hard. She said which is so sad. She lost her best friend. All she wanted for Christmas was her dog back and she got it in her to right, she's that chemicals happily so she got her dog back thanks to a very nice lady who that same day that the dog was stolen, was walking through union Square walking around two dogs. When she noticed a man, shivering little dog and King Charles Spaniel, and she just thought they didn't go together.

The guy was a drugs in this king fell, Spaniel looked like he was too good for and basically well and it was for sale. Yet on Christmas, so she inquired weird she inquired after the dog and the guy said I've had to stop for years. Just need some money and I hate to part with it, but there DE? I will, if you give me some money, liar so. The lady actually cost of two hundred and twenty bucks cash right there on the spot and bought this dog from the guy, which is pretty sweet in and of itself. But she took a step further that right. She took it to that. Canada was microchips and she got it back to their owner. Yet the vat called the family and said we have you dog on Christmas day Christmas miracle, and within a few minutes MIA and her mom went in

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sent off. Ok do now we're too interesting part of the show where we're gonna talk about modern day more sentence. I grew up with what I think was the best small centre of all time. Oh yeah, that's a pretty weighty statement. The dude at nor to Cabman dominating seventies, remembers name was the most realistic. Looking Sanna I've ever seen, yeah, he was amazing. He was my sister and I will try and find some photos to post when we release this this dude, he was great. I didn't have assumed he departed now, but he really are you really friends of his guys family? She doesn't know, but they did like a big article on when he died,

as he was like how he's back in her ear, he was known as like out the best manner, the best fix Anna and all the land, and he really he looked the part. I mean really really look like Santa, not creepy, all natural, with the bearded hair, like those no fake vagary, going on. That's nice yeah. He was really really great and that's a job and you can make some decent money doing it. You certainly can, and you can also cough up a little money. Trying to get their year depending on how much you want it the illusion that you are Santa himself you're gonna have to spend some dough Santos you, a good one, is gonna run you're about to grant the boots themselves, are gonna, be about a hundred bucks, yeah leather gloves the white ones. Three hundred bucks. Don't think that hat is free. White leather gloves way

what Santa have you ever seen? The oars leather gloves? That's creepy! Really, you ve never seen a worrying supple, wipe it out again in the gloves. Man like the little white gotten gloves, yellow thirteen to idleness, mainly to prevent germs. I think, do which I didn't know em. It's also to make your hands very visible at all times from what I understand, really allow gotcha were sent his hand. It's right here, see yeah interesting. The way really seems out against the Red yeah the ethical beard. What's he like that White one in the corner of made out of a yak here, yeah her, because I mean, if you wanna, get an inability to go to the acts can be about a grand twelve thousand dollars, or maybe you can.

Made out of a yak here. Yeah her, because I mean, if you wanna get man appeared to have to go to the acts, can be about a grand twelve thousand dollars, or maybe you can grow your own big beard. It's going to cost you! Your money to keep it like perfectly white. Yes, you know ass. He read in there now, no salt pepper, no! You wanna, however, strictly white beard and that will cost you a little bit of money to the six hundred bucks. I mean think about its. I care

during my enjoying to go to a good, colorist white, probably the hardest thing, the color hair yet- and this is all that, if you just want one of each of these things, you spend that money, but is ascending any backup, wardrobe son, these guys have like five or six of these out. That's your apparently according to a pole by the criminal group, which is basically a trade industry for scientists to them. The twenty percent of more Santa's have five or six whole suits, tucked away in case of emergency. Yes, that's like upwards of twenty grand or more and in investment the basin, and they said in the same pull that most scientists have to at least at least do sure yeah his ino, you get peed on at noon. You gotta go change. They can get peed on again at three. If they crinkle group does anything, they conduct pulls the Santa and they found that

a third, a third of more scientists, have had a child pee on their land. I would think that happens once a year, at least to the initial. Oh yeah. I was surprised it seemed a little loaded meeting. Other bodies such as p, like there's, also two ways that kid spread their germs. Yes, the criminal groups that seventy five percent of sailors gets needs Donnelly's once and forty four percent are sneezed on or coughed on up to fifteen times a day. Fifteen getting I'll bet, that's an accurate amount to because all, but you count every time, while it's never fourteen year today, well and there's no parent that will get us like really sick. I gladly does wanted at this year

Don't like no right we're going. You have your not get out of bed. The kid also may not only p a new cough on his knees. I knew he may scream and terror on whom we actually have a pretty great slideshow on our website called twenty three photos of terrified little kids on Santa Claus, his lap. Yet he go to study, should know that come yeah. I've got one. I need to add to that any defined it at my mom thousand scan it, but there is one verified picture of me classic case screaming bloody murder I'd like to see the let's get you might also, if you wanna be a sandy, you might want to get a sand school. There are many many there a handful but had hum the chair Serbia Howard School in our I'll, be on the arc of nineteen thirty seven and it is the Harvard of Santa schools. There was opened by the guy who played Santa Macy's parade for years and years in Euro Charles House.

Yeah, I'm any did open it in Albion, but if it was later on taking over a move to Middle Michigan, which is where it is now- and it is the most adorable thing you ve ever seen- your life as it really looks like the house's campus six Anna Village, a after all and is there referred to one. Another is like Santa Chalk and Santa Josh, and they all have like personalized van, play its like HO ho wine and sure things like that. I see the gloves, but they also learn quite a bit of stuff like how does like Christmas terms in sign language. Yet the history of Christmas to see can be acquainted with, like the real story. The same closure history, Saint Neck, fairly kid S, Santa! How old is a lot and Saint Nicholas Point seventeen hundred years ago, so you gotta be quick on your feet. They say that I get some of them do. Others

Our asked whether reindeer boys are girls, this something kids, always one Those are a boy or a girl right and it turns out the reindeer I'll be girls, because only female India have antlers around Christmas time and Senate has to describe that to the children. Yes and saint learns that at the Charles W Howard Santa Claus School a middle Michigan awesome, I never saw a story. I D got it for next year about these two warring Santa was that it was to San is basically that were, I think, vying for the presidency of that that group you're talking about the criminal group Viana. Do you got really ugly, it's terrible. He has a great story. I read a few years ago. I find that say that from next year yeah? So what does this mean in terms of return on your investment are over

as I like to say here that would Santa cares about yeah like? Can you get rich plants? Anna? Are you asking me? I will answer them? No, but you can make a decent living, especially if you're, just working for two or three months for months these days with a Christmas season, starting earlier and earlier in earlier near by just for this amount of time that your kind of putting into it you can make some sand is make up the eighty grand more more make somewhere between a grand in twelve twenty, to grant yeah I'm any bigger cities at your nicer miles, you're, obviously, gonna find your better Santa's that make the top dollar. If you live in the middle of kansas- and you have a hasty You might have can have a crappy looking Santa that makes like twenty bucks an hour yeah, but hey you got your Santa and good for you. They all need to be supported in Peed, on equal vigour,

chuck. Yes, we now reached the point of the room here, which is pretty exciting. It is always the hill it it's over. The hills- and this is on this- is something that taught me a lot about our history in this country is. I did not know that the United States was a huge run producer back in the day to prohibition, there's something called Medford Room, which was the pride of New England that there's a there's a distiller, that's like reaching the end of the distillation process, as we speak, yes other, whose about to really some Medford rum here for the first time in a wiring yeah. Well yeah, it's like the fact that has been the front. Basically bids said since prohibition- yes, but at one time it was basically the the

and soul of the colonial economy, and some people make the case it were it not for Medford rum. The colonists might not have had enough, though, to find the revolution, and I did now either if you back in the day, if you went north of New Jersey, New York, that was, like the House drink your onto a pub and it was wrong and it was dark in kind of funky. Apparently the room was not there. The taverns other abruptly darken funky to Madame yeah. The room was well we'll get to that, but his deafening darkroom it would get ahead of ourselves who chuck firstly, talk about the difference between a tardy in a sling on TAT once called pretty much when you call your door.

Hot toddy you're using em a redundant turn tat his heart, but you're not even really describing it well, when you're talking about whisky, little sugar, lemon and bourbon, that's maybe a bourbon tidy he's all kinds of tat is but a yes and hot butter. Rum is a kind of toddy. I toddy is the predecessor do cocktail and basically its booze water in sugar, and if it's hard, it's a tardy, if it's called it a sling like a Singapore sling exactly letter, so hot buttered rum is in fact the time and it's obviously was hit back then and still today, because it was cold and back then in New England. You know you didn't, have the answer,

we have today and you would you would want something to warm the belly, something maybe make your little sleepy, so you could fall asleep, and so what better to include in that toddy then a little fat over body. There are plenty cows through okay, we get. These turns the others butter land around through good stuff, you're a bunch, a room, thereby tonnes IRAN, and we have these hot searing pokers in the fire, which I did not know about. Until this that's pretty awesome and I'd love to make one like yeah? You know the original area which will get too in a second. They sell us all in a glass in drink it, and it turns out it's delicious and buttery and put you to sleep with a smile on your face, They have no idea. The first person was to put all of it together, but by the mid eighteenth century it was apparently all over New England cheer. It was pretty much every in the colonies. George Washington love the stuff yeah

and over time, people have decided to come make it a little more for food than the original version. So there's there is a very widespread hot buttered rum recipe. That includes basically like a spice sweet batter. Were you with butter together with nutmeg cinnamon all that stuff in some sugar in your place. The butter with that apparently David, wonder, choose a cocktail. Historian over Esquire magazine says that if you do something like that, imports of main you'll be labelled a communist, so his aunt I'd better. Yes, he is a straight up. Purest right, but we can say how to make these things. The first is to talk about ingredients, the? U unease unsolved butter, that's a big one! Anyone is good butter quality butter, not margarine or some shit,

spread before you and he's like real butter. Real nice insulted butter yeah, and you wanted the more milk for the better. There was a guy who wrote the gun club drink book. His name is Charles Brown, and he suggested that in hot butter drum the butter was there merely to lubricate the mustache author of the article we read said: no, it's not the case. The butters is an integral part of this drink so use that is the best. But are you can put your hand yet gonna softens the the corners, the rough edges of this room? Apparently some people include cider by an apple cider in their drink which can be done, but the purest point out. That's just another drink altogether, yeah

all the hot buttered rum. It's something else. It's a pot cited rum red with butter. So if you are appearest- and you want to make an original- oh gee- enjoyed by George Washington Harvard Rum, how do you make while you wanna get dark room gathered? There's the key yeah goodbye It is very important, but Rome is really important and you're saying that is a little dark, little funky back in the day, and luckily people are still making those kinds of rum today, You want some brown wrong. He apparently he says the

Demographic rums from Vienna are really a nice way to go. They sure had ever had a is a good. Yes, I'm not a big rum guy had a bad experience with it that, eighty years ago you never recovered her. I haven't really dumb near it sense. There is that I would, though, for you now it's been long enough that does the kinds of Rome that this guy's talking about like anything from Vienna, is like you can drink it neat. Yeah good, you know, yeah ice did you know, worked it mixed Kelly, grow and college numb not recommending this people cause it's not right to drink on the job, but we all drank some chuck of their yeah sure we drank a roman coats, and that was where I drink a lot Even one took over the line there. Now we were, we were get week. We mean it was a college when you work at a college barking you drink why you re born here? What is your bags Peter? I don't know, wasn't from that. That was from so get Myers Roma in New Jersey Gotcha year.

A well Mars will work. It's dark rum yeah! You don't have to spend fifty bucks on rum now, but if you wanna, Hot rum isn't necessarily something you drink in every night knew so maybe this year's spring for some decent run I'll have it around for a while. It doesn't really go bad. I was the recipe. The recipe is as follows: chuck you want two ounces of good rum darkroom. You want three to four ounces of hot water. One teaspoonful raw sugar. You know that our sugar and the Rostov, yet that's demurrer, ok, and then you want some really good insulted butter, softened yeah. Then what do you do? Well, there's a couple of ways: if you wanna go super old school, you gonna heat up your mug a little bit some hot water going them

listen chilled by era. Nice warm listen to you! Dont want to child you gonna Jerome, sugar and water, and about two tablespoons of that butter. Butter yeah and you want to take a hot poker from fire and plunged it into your mixture until it starts bubbling, be very careful When doing this year. I don't usually like fire public is covered an ash. I don't, I don't understand like work poker, you gonna use slowly a year, you run poker. You would have something strictly for this. As for rum yeah, but let's get real, that's dangerous! This is the modern days. So if you want to make one that slightly less colonial meaning, it doesn't use a red, hot poker to heed everything. Futurity Catalan, pretty much, you again, you warm like a he proof: Magua, some water, hot water. And then you dont that out and you poor, an ounce of water and some sugar, and you start to dissolve yet boiling one,

right after that you had the room, the rest of the water and that butter to spoons has a lot of butter. The dryness and on both of whom you wanted. You wanna great, some fresh nutmeg on top here and there's your hop uttered room If you want to be a communist in Maine and make your batter you make you, basically you make your spice butter sugar better and that sort of like just your base and you can scooped out an added to each. Right use. It stands for the butter yet about, I would say if you wanna, make eight earnings, copper, brown, sugar, eight serving sure there's not a zero missing seriously

one, the forensic events, all the butter softened one teaspoon of ground cinnamon, one have teaspoons of ground nutmeg and one quarter. Teaspoon of clove makes out altogether and mixing ball, and supposedly that is eight servings of your batter, but am sounds like a girl could go a little further it'll keep you up. There may be, some people have seen use ice cream in their batter area. Now it is an honour, even unlike that's too, for somebody, two tablespoons of butter in a drink is due for some me and I think that's the point. This holiday season, when you are enjoying a habit of raw materials, is twenty one are all You should adjust it. However, you like and make it your own way, so that it gives you a happy holiday he's an awesome New York,

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office, again, ok body and around out the Christmas episode with a reading, and we did this last year. What would we do? The shoemaker something will kids and shoes listened about some magical shoes that were made overnight or somethin about clothing out yet again the name of it. They don't worry. Is it's a classic Christmas story, as is the gift of the magic by him Who is one of my favorite authors of all time? Yet really, he makes a great anybody. So now folks, Merry Christmas, twenty thirteen, a reading from Josh and Chuck the MAGIC one dollar and eighty seven, since that was all and sixty cents of it was in pennies penny saved one in two at a time

all those in the grocer in the budget for man and the butcher until once, cheeks burned, with a silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied three times Del account one dollar and eighty seven cents, and the next day would be Christmas. There was clearly nothing to do, but flock down on the shabby little couch and how so Della did it, which instigates the more reflection that life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating, while the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home furnish were eight dollars. Week did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the look out for the mendicant see squad look out for those guys, Vestibule below was a letterbox into which no letter would go. An electric button for which no mortal finger could cooks ring. Also appertaining. Farren too was a coup

bearing the name, Mr James Billingham Young. The Billingham had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid. Thirty dollars, now in the income was shrunk to twenty dollars, though there were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D. Whenever Mister James doing him, young came home and reached his flat above he was called Jim and greatly hugged by Missus. James Gillingham Young already introduced you as Della, which is all very good. Fella finished her crying did to her cheeks with the powder rag she stood by the window and looked out dully at a grey cat, walking a grey fence in a grey backyard. Tomorrow would be Christmas Day and she had only one dollar. Eighty seven cents with which divide in the present she'd been saving every penny. She could, for months with the result, when he dollars a week doesn't go too far. Expenses had been greater than she had calculated. Now is our only one,

our and eighty seven cents to buy a present for Jim her Jim many a happy hour. She had spent planning for something nice for something fine and rare and sterling something just a little bit here too, being worthy of the honour being owed by Jim those appear glass between the windows of the room. Perhaps you seen appear glass and in a dollar flat, very thin and agile person may, by observing his reflection and a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks, our being slender had mastered the art. Suddenly she world from the window and stood before the glass, her were shining brilliantly, but her face had lost its color within twenty seconds rapidly. Hold down her hair and let it fall to its full length. Now there are two possessions of James doing him, Jung's in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim's gold watch that had been his fathers and grandfathers. The other was Delmas hair. Had the queen of Shiva lived in the fighting

The airship Della would have let her hair hang out the window Sunday to dry just to depreciate her majesty's jewels and gifts. Had King Solomon Bid, the janitor with all his treasures piled up in the basement, Jim would have pulled out his watch every time he passed just to see implicit, his beard from it. So now not jealous beautiful hair fell about her rippling in shining like a cascade of brown waters. The lower knee and made itself almost a garment for her, and He did it up again nervously quickly, once she faltered for a minute and stood still, while it's here too splashed and the worn red carpet I'm her. All brown jacket on my brown hat with a whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle. Still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street where she stopped the sign read Madame so for any hair goods of all kinds.

Adam take your head off and let's have a cited, the looks of it down. Rippled the brown cascade twenty dollars, a madame lifting the mass with a practice. Ten give it to me. Quicks Adela, o in the next two hours trip Byron, rosy wings for on rippled, the Brown cascade twenty dollars, a madame lifting the mass with practice can give it to me Quicks Adela, o in the next two hour trip by and rosy wings. Forget the hash metaphor. She was ransacking stores for genes present. She found it at last it surely had been made for Jim and no one else. There is no other like it in any of the stores and she had turned all of them inside out. It was a platinum fog chain, simple and chased in design properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation good thing should do. It was even worthy of the watch as soon as sight. She knew that must be gems. It was like him

in this and value the description applied to both twenty one dollars. They took from her for it hurried home with the eighty seven cents the chain on his watched. You might be properly anxious about the time in any company green is the watch. Was he sometimes did it on the sly, on account of the old leather, strap that he used in place for the chain when Della reached home, her intent, case and gave way a little to prudence and reason she got her curling irons out in light of the gas and oil. The work, repairing the ravages made by generosity, added to love It is always a tremendous task, dear friends, a mammoth task within forty minutes. Her head was covered with tiny closely girls that made her look wonderfully like a true schoolboy. She looked at her reflect in the mere long carefully and critically. If Jim doesn't kill me, she said to herself before he takes a second look at me. He'll say: look like a Coney island course girl, but

Can I do? Oh? What can I do with a dollar and eighty seven cents at seven o clock? The coffee was made in the frying. Pan was back on the stove Hoddan Ready, cooked the chops. Jim was never laid Della, doubled the food chain in her hand and sat on the of the table near the door that he always entered. Then she heard a step on the stair away down on the first flight and she turned white for just a moment.

She had a habit for saying a little silent prayer about the simplest, everyday things, and now she whispered, please, God make him think, I'm still pretty. She cut her hair off right to make money to buy this gift tat twenty dollars. For so she looks like an halfway and lay Ms Rob yes, but with curly hair the door open and Jim stepped in enclosed it, he looked thin and very serious poor fellow. He was only twenty two and about to be burned with a family. He needed a new overcoat and he was without gloves Jim stopped inside the door as immovable as a centre at the centre of a quail. His eyes were fixed upon Della and there was an expression in them that she could not read and terrified. Her does not anger nor surprise nor disapproval nor horror, nor any of these sentiments that she had been prepared for. He simply stared at her fixedly with peculiar expression on his face

Dela wriggled off the table and went for him, Jim Darling. She cried, don't look at me that way. I had my hair cut off in Seoul because I could have lived Christmas without giving you a present little grow out again, you won't mind, will you I just had to do it. My hair grows awfully fass, save Merry Christmas. Let's be happy, you don't know what a nice beautiful nice gift I've got for. You, you ve cut off your hair, asked him laboriously as if he had not arrived at that patent fact. Yet, even after the hardest mental labour cut it off and sold, it said Della. Don't you me just as well anyhow me without my hair Anna Jim looked round the room? Curiously, you say your hair is gone. Said with an air almost of idiocy. You'd need and look for its Adela it sold. You sold and gone to it's Christmas Eve boy be good to me, for it went for you Maybe the hairs on my head were numbered. She went on

in Syria sweetness, but nobody could ever count. My love for you shall I put the chops on Jim out of his trance. Jim seemed quickly to wake. He unfolded his della for ten seconds. Let us regard with discreet scrutiny, some Consequential object in the other direction, eight dollars a week or a million a year. What is the difference, a mathematician or would give you the wrong answer the match. I brought viable gifts, but that was not among them the star certain will be eliminated later on Jim, drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table. Don't make any mistake, though he said about me I don't think there is anything in the way of a haircut horror, shaver shampoo that could make me like my girl, any less, but if you'll unwrapped that package, you may see why you had me going at first white fingers, nimble toward the string and paper and then in ecstatic scream, and then, alas, quick feminine change to stir. Tears in Wales, necessitating

media, employment of all the comforting powers of the Lord of the flat for there lay the combs the set of calm side and back that Della had long in a Broadway window, beautiful combs pure tortoise shell, with jewelry. Just a shade aware in the beautiful vanished here they were expensive, come she knew and her heart had simply in your and over them without the least hope of possession, and now they were hers, but the tresses that of ignoring the coveted adornments were gone, but she hung them to her bosom and linked. She was able to look up with their eyes and smile and say my hair grow, so fast, Jim and leaped up like a little since tat cried. Oh, oh, Jim had not yet seen as beautiful present Hold it out to him eagerly upon her open palm. The dull, precious metal seemed a flash, the reflection of a bright and ardent spirit. Isn't it a dandy Jim? I hunted all over town to find it. You'll have to look at the time a hundred times a day. Now

mere, why you want to see how it looks on you, instead of obeying Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his hands under the back of his head and smiled dal said he, let's put her Christmas, presents away and keep him awhile there too nice to use just at present. I saw the watch to get the money to buy your com and now suppose you put the chops on the marriage. I, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the babe in the major they invented. The art of giving Christmas presents being wise. Their guests were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of extra In case of duplication- and here I have lamely related to you- the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other, the greatest treasures of their house, but in the last word to the wise of these days. Let it be said that of all who give gifts, these two were the wisest

Oh all who given received this such as they are wisest everywhere. They are wisest, they are the matter. Would you think of that? I think it was one of the great iron ironic stories. Well, it's a Hermes, the master of the ironic twist yet, and it's not lame at all. No, his landlady amber that's one, those words it's all different. Now hisself deprecate yeah. I get it so yeah man about that comes. He saw the watch, but they got the chops. Yet tat. When I was reading now say chop some pretty get answered, it began ass. I got nothin else merry Christmas. Everyone makes for another great your body and Jerry yeah. Maybe Christmas Chuck made Christmas Jerry Jerry, says, May Christmas to and to all the good knight to all the good night,

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