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IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?
IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?
BY JACOB A. RIIS
NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
SET UP AND ELECTROTYPED PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 1904 REPRINTED DECEMBER, 1904 REPRINTED NOVEMBER, 1912
IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?
"DEAR MR. RIIS:
"A little chap of six on the Western frontier writes to us:
"'Will you please tell me if there is a Santa Claus? Papa says not.'
"Won't you answer him?"
That was the message that came to me from an editor last December just as I was going on a journey. Why he sent it to me I don't know. Perhaps it was because, when I was a little chap, my home was way up toward that white north where even the little boys ride in sleds behind reindeer, as they are the only horses they have. Perhaps it was because when I was a young lad I knew Hans Christian Andersen, who surely ought to know, and spoke his tongue. Perhaps it was both. I will ask the editor when I see him. Meanwhile, here was his letter, with Christmas right at the door, and, as I said, I was going on a journey.
I buttoned it up in my great coat along with a lot of other letters I didn't have time to read, and I thought as I went to the depot what a pity it was that my little friend's papa should have forgotten about Santa Claus. We big people do forget the strangest way, and then we haven't got a bit of a good time any more.
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