Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus

Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus

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, 2 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 Tommys home. 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 3 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 Tommys 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. 4 ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 25896
Author: Page, Thomas Nelson
Release Date: Jun 25, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Anderson, Victor C., 1882-1937