Author: SOPHIE MAY

Santa Claus house stood in the middle of the town. It was an old-fashioned looking house, very broad and low, with an enormous chimney. There was a wide step in front of the door, shaded by a fig-tree and grape-vine, and morning-glories and scarlet beans clambered by the side of the latticed windows; and there were great round rose-bushes, with great, round roses, on either side of the walk leading to the door.O! it must have smelled like a party, Said Effie, and then subsided, as she remembered that she was interrupting.