Santa Claus said to him, “I want to put Johnny in bed
without waking him up.”
When he waked next morning there was the polar bearskin which he and Johnny had brought back with them, not to mention the sealskin coat, and though Johnny, when he next saw him, was too much excited at first by his new sled and the fine fresh cow which his mother had found in her cow-house that morning, to talk about anything else, yet, when he and his mother came over after breakfast to see Tommy’s father and thank him for something, they said that Santa Claus had paid them a visit such as he never had paid before, and they brought with them Johnny’s goats, which they insisted on giving Tommy as a Christmas present. So Tommy Trot knew that Santa Claus had got his letter.
Transcriber's Note:
The page numbers in the list of [Illustrations] have been changed to match their position in this ebook.