The Rural Voice, 2002-12, Page 27while considering all the
possibilities, she would exact
payment in some act of servitude.
This kept us occupied and took our
minds temporarily away from our
mother's illness, the mustard plasters
and bowls of custard that disappeared
into her bedroom off the kitchen
where we were not allowed to go,
and the crustiness of the detested
Miss Maxwell who did not seem an
angel of mercy to us. For what I
really wanted from St. Nicholas was
my mother back in the centre of our
home, and 1 feared this was beyond
the powers of even the Eaton's Santa
Claus.
Jhave no recollection of the items
on my list, indeed whether there
were Christmas presents at all that
year, since my mother was the co-
conspirator with Santa in our home.
The real gift that Christmas was that
mother recovered, and did not have
to go away to a TB sanatorium as we
I have no
recollection
of the items
on my
Christmas
list
feared. Only a long time later did 1
recognize that her recovery had more
to do with the cantankerous
Christmas angel, Miss Maxwell,
than it did with the Eaton's Santa
Claus.
"As for me dear Santa Claus
Now you dear old man,
Whisper what you'll bring to me:
Tell me if you can. "0
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