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Title: Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land and other Stories

Author: Ellis Towne, Sophie May and Ella Farman

Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #20112]
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LILL'S TRAVELS
IN SANTA CLAUS LAND.

AND OTHER STORIES.

BY
ELLIS TOWNE, SOPHIE MAY AND ELLA FARMAN.

BOSTON:
D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY,
FRANKLIN ST., CORNER OF HAWLEY.

COPYRIGHT BY
D. LOTHROP & CO.
1878.

LILL'S TRAVELS IN SANTA CLAUS LAND.

Effie had been playing with her dolls one cold December morning, and
Lill had been reading, until both were tired. But it stormed too hard to
go out, and, as Mrs. Pelerine had said they need not do anything for two
hours, their little jaws might have been dislocated by yawning before
they would as much as pick up a pin. Presently Lill said, "Effie, shall
I tell you a story."

"O yes! do!" said Effie, and she climbed up by Lill in the large
rocking-chair in front of the grate. She kept very still, for she knew
Lill's stories were not to be interrupted by a sound, or even a motion.
The first thing Lill did was to fix her eyes on the fire, and rock
backward and forward quite hard for a little while, and then she said,
"Now I am going to tell you about my _thought travels_, and they are apt
to be a little queerer, but O! ever so much nicer, than the other kind!"

As Lill's stories usually had a formal introduction she began: "Once
upon a time, when I was taking a walk through the great field beyond the
orchard, I went way on, 'round where the path turns behind the hill. And
after