"Oh! Miss Fanny, people can't remember everything, you know," said Nanny; "Belle says they never thought a word about it till this morning."


JOE'S SEARCH FOR SANTA CLAUS.

BY IRVING BACHELLER

A story, my child? Well, there's none that I know

As good as the story about little Joe.

He lived with his mother, just under the eaves

Of a tenement high, where the telegraph weaves

Its highway of wire, that everywhere goes,