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    Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus
    Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus
    Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus
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    Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus

    By Victor C. Anderson and Thomas Nelson Page

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus - Victor C. Anderson

      Project Gutenberg's Tommy Trots Visit to Santa Claus, by Thomas Nelson Page

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Tommy Trots Visit to Santa Claus

      Author: Thomas Nelson Page

      Illustrator: Victor C. Anderson

      Release Date: June 25, 2008 [EBook #25896]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOMMY TROTS VISIT TO SANTA CLAUS ***

      Produced by David Edwards, Ronnie Sahlberg, Joseph Cooper, and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      TOMMY TROT’S VISIT

      TO

      SANTA CLAUS

      As wide awake as a boy could be who had made up his mind

      to keep awake until midnight.

      TOMMY TROT’S VISIT

      TO

      SANTA CLAUS

      BY

      THOMAS NELSON PAGE

      ILLUSTRATED BY

      VICTOR C. ANDERSON

      NEW YORK

      CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

      1908

      1908, By

      CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

      Published October 1908

      TO

      THE GREATEST LOVER OF CHILDREN

      THE AUTHOR HAS EVER KNOWN

      AND TO THE CHILDREN SHE LOVES

      BEST IN ALL THE WORLD

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      TOMMY TROT’S VISIT TO SANTA CLAUS

      I

      The little boy whose story is told here lived in the beautiful country of Once upon a Time. His name, as I heard it, was Tommy Trot; but I think that, maybe, this was only a nick-name. When he was about your age, he had, on Christmas Eve, the wonderful adventure of seeing Santa Claus in his own country, where he lives and makes all the beautiful things that boys and girls get at Christmas. In fact, he not only went to see him in his own wonderful city away up toward the North Pole, where the snow never melts and the Aurora lightens up the sky; but he and his friend, Johnny Stout, went with dogs and guns to hunt the great polar bear whose skin afterwards always lay in front of the big library fireplace in Tommy’s home.

      This is the way it all happened.

      Tommy lived in a big house on top of quite a high hill, not far from a town which could be seen clearly from the front portico and windows. Around the house was a large lawn with trees and shrubbery in it, and at the back was a big lot, in one corner of which stood the stables and barns, while on the other side sloped down a long steep hill to a little stream bordered with willows and maples and with a tract of woodland beyond. This lot was known as the cow-pasture, and the woodland was known as the wood-lot, while yet beyond was a field which Peake, the farmer, always spoke of as the big field. On the other side of the cow-lot, where the stables stood, was a road which ran down the hill and across the stream and beyond the woods, and on the other side of this road near the bottom of the hill was the little house in which lived Johnny Stout and his mother. They had no fields or lots, but only a backyard in which there were chickens and pigeons and, in the Fall, just before Tommy’s visit to Santa Claus, two white goats, named Billy and Carry, which Johnny had broken and used to drive to a little rough wagon which he had made himself out of a box set on four wheels.

      Tommy had no brothers or sisters, and the only cousins he had in town were little girls younger than himself, to whom he had to give up when any one was around, so he was not as fond of them as he should have been; and Sate, his dog, a terrier of temper and humours, was about his only real playmate. He used to play by himself and he was

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