mean haven't any harness. I wish I
had some harness for them."

"Pooh! wishing doesn't do anything by itself," said Santa Claus.

"Oh! I tell you. I've a lot of string that came off some Christmas
things my mother got for some poor people. I put it in my pocket to
give it to Johnny to mend his goat-harness with, and I never thought
of it when I saw him last night."

"So," said Santa Claus. "That's better. Let's see it."

Tommy felt in his pocket, and at first he could not find it. "I've
lost it," he said sorrowfully.

"Try again," said Santa Claus.

Tommy felt again in a careless sort of way.

"No, I've lost it," he said. "It must have dropped out."

"You're always losing something," said Santa Claus. "Now, Johnny would
have used that. You are sure you had it?"

Tommy nodded. "Sure; I put it right in this pocket."

"Then you've got it now. Feel in your other pockets."

"I've felt there two times," said Tommy.

"Then feel again," said Santa Claus. And Tommy felt again, and sure
enough, there it was. He pulled it out, and as it came it turned to
harness--six sets of wonderful dog-harness, made of curious
leather-thongs, and on every breast-strap was the name of the dog.

As Tommy made a dive for it and began to put the harness on the dogs,
Santa Claus said, "String on bundles bought for others sometimes comes
in quite handy."

Even then Tommy did not know how to put the harness on the dogs. As
fast as he got it on one, Sate would begin to play with him and he
would get all tangled up in it. Tommy could have cried with shame, but
he remembered what his father had told him about, "Trying instead of
crying"; so he kept on, and the first thing he knew they were all
harnessed. Just then he heard a noise behind him and there was Johnny
with another team of dogs just like his, hitched to his box-sled, on
which they had come, and on it a great pile of things tied, and in his
hand a list of what he had--food of all kinds in little cans; bread and
butter, and even cake, like that he had given away; dried beef;
pemmican; coffee and tea, all put up in little cases; cooking utensils;
a frying-pan and a coffee-pot and a few other things--tin-cups and so
forth; knives and everything that he had read that boys had when they
went camping, matches and a flint-stone in a box with tinder, in case
the matches gave out or got wet; hatchets and saws and tools to make
ice-houses or to mend their sleds with, in fact, everything t