KIT CURIOUS. 11

 

give it, exactly or pretty nearly, with-
out going to look over the book where
the date is recorded.

The old man used to resort to a
rather singular way of showing the
kind feelings of his heart to the lit-
tle folks, every Christmas; and I am
not sute but he has kept up the same
thing to\this day, though, perhaps, he
is getting to be too aged for that now.
This is the way he used to manage,
when he was a younger man: Every
year, just before Christmas, he would
buy a great number of small picture
books. On Christmas morning, as soon