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you know, it wouldn’t be Christmas to us 
boys, if we didn’t get some gifts of our very 
own, for we can’t always be thinking ‘big 
thoughts.’ 
“So many things,” he continued, “were im- 
possible until he was older. He had wanted 
a dog, but he couldn’t have that. He had 
asked for a cat, but, of course, he couldn’t 
have that. He could only have kids’ things. 
“If he was only a shepherd he could have 
some lambs. He had once had a tame weasel 
and it was the dearest thing, but you couldn’t 
pet a weasel, although you could get to love 
it, and feel as if the world had come to an 
end when it died. 
“But there was always one Christmas that 
he remembered. He had got a lot of things 
that day, but when night came he w’as so 
tired, that he had a fight with his brother. 
Oh, not a real fight, you know ; only the kind 
that brothers always have. People may 
think you awful, and send you off to bed, but 
