Playing Santa Claus, and Other Christmas Tales

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Playing Santa Claus and Other Christmas Tales, by Sarah P. (Sarah Parsons) Doughty
BY
MRS. S. P. DOUGHTY.
BOSTON:
NICHOLS AND NOYES.
1865.
BOSTON:
PRINTED BY CHARLES H. CROSBY,
Nos. 11 & 13, Water Street.
A merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you, dear children! This little volume comes to you as a holiday gift, and in its pages we have endeavored to show you that true and lasting happiness can be found only in doing good to others. Let the lesson sink deep into your hearts. Even the least among you can do much good. Look around you. Do not wait for some great opportunity to offer, but with willing hearts and busy hands perform the most trifling acts of usefulness to others. Continue to do this throughout the year, and we will promise you that when another New Year dawns upon the earth, you will look back with rejoicing, giving thanks to your Heavenly Father that you have found that true happiness which can never be taken from you.
“Wake up, wake up, Emma!” said little Caroline Meredith, as she gently shook her sister very early one winter’s morning; “I have something very pleasant to tell you.”
“What is it, Carrie?” answered the sleepy little girl, as she rubbed her eyes, and tried to comply with her sister’s request to “wake up.”