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It almost made Mr. Dog wish he had a stocking of his own there to fill.
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[Mr. Dog] " opened his bag and filled the stockings. He put in mixed candy and nuts and little things first, and then the . . . candy canes, so they'd show at the top, and hung a nice dressed chicken outside. I tell you, they looked fine! It almost made Mr. Dog wish he had a stocking of his own there to fill, and he forgot all about them waking up and sat down in a chair to look at the stockings.
It was a nice rocking chair, and over in a dark corner where they wouldn't be apt to see him, even if one of them did wake up and stick his head out of his room, so Mr. Dog felt pretty safe now anyway. He rocked softly, and looked and looked at the nice stockings, and thought how pleased they'd be in the morning, and how tired he was . . . He was so tired, he didn't feel a bit like starting home, and by and by--he never did know how it happened--but by and by Mr. Dog went sound asleep right there in his chair, with all his Santa Claus clothes on." Albert Bigelow Paine
