TO

THE GREATEST LOVER OF CHILDREN

THE AUTHOR HAS EVER KNOWN

AND TO THE CHILDREN SHE LOVES

BEST IN ALL THE WORLD

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As wide awake as a boy could be who had made up his mind to keep awake until midnight.[Frontispiece]
Tommy had never before had any real coasting like this.[10]
They flew on, over fields of white snow.[43]
“Look, Look! The captain has lent that little boy his ‘Seven Leaguers.’”[54]
What was their horror to find that they both had forgotten to load their guns.[84]
Santa Claus said to him, “I want to put Johnny in bed without waking him up.”[93]