C. "The day breaking through the window."
T. (6 a.m.). "I wonder what time it is, Cod?"
C. "Don't know; it's so cold, I guess the clock's frozen."
T. "Ha! ha! don't you know a clock has a running spring, and that never freezes?"
C. (7 a.m.). "I wonder where Santa Claus learned to come down chimneys?"
T. "That's easy. He took lessons off that camel that went through the eye of a needle."
T. (8 a.m.). "Look here, Cod, you shouldn't have eaten all little Ethel's buckwheat cakes like that. Mamma's awful angry."