more forceful to confront this
serious threat.
borrowing of not more than
$1 billion, including
government to government
arrangements for this
upgrade.”
“For this reason, I seek the
concurrence of the National
Assembly for external
your mother and the nurses,
for I am a foreigner and
cannot read English writing
well. You will find that I
made no mistakes about the
things which you and the
baby ordered in your own
letters--I went down your
chimney at midnight when
you were asleep and
delivered them all myself-and kissed both of you, too . .
. . But . . . there were . . . one
or two small orders which I
could not fill because we ran
out of stock . . . .
CHRISTMAS STORIES
A letter from santa clause
by mark twain
Palace of Saint Nicholas in
the Moon
Christmas Morning
My Dear Susy Clemens,
I have received and read all
the letters which you and
your little sister have written
me . . . . I can read your and
your baby sister's jagged and
fantastic marks without any
trouble at all. But I had
trouble with those letters
which you dictated through
There was a word or two in
your mama's letter which . . .
I took to be "a trunk full of
doll's clothes." Is that it? I
will call at your kitchen door
about nine o'clock this
morning to inquire. But I
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