Santa Claus's Partner

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Title: Santa Claus's Partner

Author: Thomas Nelson Page

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Language: English

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SANTA CLAUS'S
PARTNER

BY

THOMAS NELSON PAGE

ILLUSTRATED BY W. GLACKENS

[Illustration]

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1899

_Copyright, 1899, by Charles Scribner's Sons_



TO MY FATHER

_who among all the men the writer knew in his youth was the most
familiar with books; and who of all the men the writer has ever known
has exemplified best the virtue of open-handedness, this little Book is
affectionately inscribed by his son_,

THE AUTHOR




ILLUSTRATIONS

FROM DRAWINGS IN COLOR BY W. GLACKENS



_Vignette._
_"Guess who it is?" she cried._
_Livingstone had to dodge for his life._
_Half a dozen young bodies flung themselves upon him._
_He took the shopkeeper aside and had a little talk with him._
_The little form snuggled against him closer and closer._
_And James with sparkling eyes rolled back the folding doors._
_Standing in the Christmas evening light
in a long avenue under swaying boughs._




SANTA CLAUS'S PARTNER

CHAPTER I


Berryman Livingstone was a successful man, a very successful man, and as
he sat in his cushioned chair in his inner private office (in the best
office-building in the city) on a particularly snowy evening in
December, he looked it every inch. It spoke in every line of his
clean-cut, self-contained face, with its straight, thin nose, close

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