12 KIT CURIOUS.

 

-as he had finished his breakfast, be
would take a walk around the village,
with his pockets brimful of pictire
books; and every little boy or girl
whom he met, and who wished him
a “merry Christmas,” got one of these
books for a present. I undertosk, just
now, to tell you why the chillren all
loved him. I wonder, by the way, if I
did not neglect one reason for his popu-
larity among the boys and girls. Who
knows but these Christmas presents
had something to do with the mat-
ter ? ;

I don’t know that J ought to go any