"Well," Mamie went on, "I thought that I should like Father Christmas to send me a goose, and then we could all have it for dinner on Christmas day."
"That would be jolly," said Robbie. "What a surprise father and mother would get!"
"Yes, that is what I thought," said Mamie, much relieved that Robbie did not laugh. "Let us both call up the chimney now and ask Father Christmas if he will send us one."
So Robbie and Mamie shouted up the chimney together, and what a noise they did make! This is what they said:—
"Please, Father Christmas, we should like a lovely big goose for Christmas instead of a present for our stockings."
"I wonder if he heard," said Robbie and Mamie together.
But Father Christmas did hear. For there was a tiny little fairy listening all the time, and she caught the message in one of her wings, and flew right away there and then to give it to Santa Claus.