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Just fancy-Santa's mixed up
UNCLE Jak and Uncle
George would like
with the Arabian Nights!
If you've forgotten the story, ask the children. They will tell you how Schahriah, the Sultan, Do annoyed when his Sultana went off with the lodger that he ordered a fresh batch of wives and promised to end
a stron each honeymoon with gulation ceremony at daybreak.
Not a bad idea at that but iliis Sultan jurns out to be ruther a dope, see. He let this talk busybody, Scheherazade, him out of it by spinning him the tale for u Thousand and One Nights.
all good boys and girls to know that there IS a Father Christmas, and that if you
So Commerce waved Public- Chus having rosy chocks and a eat your ty, which is what he called long white beard and bly greens like mummy says his magic wand, and before you tummy and
n suckful
of gifts
became ay Jack Frost there and eight tiny reindeer and a he will ride over the could
and hundreds special magic which helped him were hundreds rooftops, drop down the of Father Christmases popping to find out which little boys chimney, and bring you up all over the land,
and gris had been naughty, As you know children, there that model H-bomb you a tots of legends about the I hope why your Uncle Jak and All of which helps to explain, wrote to him about.
your Uncle George have been traipsing around in the raiti looking for Father Christmases best part of this week. Moore
he first one we came across Back in 1822, Dr Moore' and was selling clockwork eater- but that was before a hig, bold serving quin, a doughty old pillars for 2s encls on the pave- gizut named Commerce got to
Dutchman named Pieter, set ment near Oxford Circus, and hear about Santa Claus and de-
out in a aleigh on Christmas it gave your Uncle George ever elded to go along with him for
Eve to deliver the family pre- such 群 surprise to recognise sake of the post and los
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New York. And what with the Santa Claus was flogging lawn- Commerce was gifting in his
snow and the nip in the air tennis tickets outside the gates Counting House one winner's
and a noggin or two to keep at Wimbledon. day when his trusty Heutenant,
out the cold, it is not sur- a sharp-eyed little ferret named prising that Dr Moore Bright Idea, upped and sald 10 his master!
Once upon a time, of course, you had to walt untli Christmas Eve for your clock-work train ki your doll that rule Manna,
The legends
origin of Santa Claus but the story I like best is the one about that American chap Dr Clement Clarke Columbia University,
of
...
The throne
for 1930.
However, Mr Selfridge, you will be glad to know, has settled for Sinbad the Sailor, Aladdin, as a means of I told him how nice it was to and Ali Baba
shering in Father Christmas began see him scalping the little kid- to chirrup a little ditty us he dies in the good old Christmas
"Santa Claus is immortal" and Pieter drove home to his tradition, and he replied in the
Sarie Clous told us, pousing ever-loving wife and nine special Santa Claus code ... children.
something about the perishing briefly in his Jabours on a gold- What was surprising was that
weather and the perishing cop-and-silver throne among the Dr Moore
remembered the pers making life unbearable and pop-ayed moppets.
"Children don't change much "Boss, it seems to me there words next morning. But he
how glad he would be when
over the years. It's still mostly is a lot of good will going to clid and he sat down at his flat-racing started up again. waste at this festive season of desk and put them on paper...
Honestly, I don't believe he dolls and toy soldiers and trick beetles they ask for though the year. and I also seems to telling the world for the firul Because a nice ancle we met in you
W** Father Christums at all!
get the odd enterprising me we should be in on IL" time about a fur-clad
ably shop Lola
real young customer who wants a Father Christmas was the
pair of stiletto-heeled shoes like 000 'Selfridges lund In their Palace of the Arabian Nighis, and if we wanted to meet him would wo please lake our places in the queue,
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So we lined up with all those other kids and their Mums and we joined Uncle Holly's club and we saw the golden butter- flies and the donkey wagging his tail and the Moorish arches and the monkey shaking, coco- nuts out of a tree and the twinkling stars and the water carrier and the baskets of fruit and the market place all done up like nobody's business in the mysterious East. Smashing It
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"No lo horrors?" I asked. Santa's rosy checks blanched a little. "Well, there was one young so-and-so who walked up with his hands in his pockets, demanded a real live crocodile, and then said he'd settle for a ruddy snake-only 'ruddy' wasn't the word he used.
The truth!
tell
"But children. always Father Christmas the truth. And Only not all of them are shy. the other day I asked one little girl to reveal her innermost desire and she belted out at the top of her voice: I want my dinner!
"Which reminds me..." con- cluded immortal Santa Clous reaching for knife and fork. know what kind of fairy-food And if the children want to Father Christmas lives on, you may tell them with truth that it is roast pork and crackiing. And he cats his greens!
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