Karl Krinken, His Christmas Stocking

Karl Krinken, His Christmas Stocking is cookery book co-authored by Susan Warner, Anna Bartlett Warner, Amy Lothrop whose other works inlcude THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD,” “QUEECHY,” and “DIANA.
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Wherever Santa Claus lives, and in whatever spot of the universe he harnesses his reindeer and loads up his sleigh, one thing is certain—he never yet put anything in that sleigh for little Carl Krinken. Indeed it may be noted as a fact, that the Christmas of poor children has but little of his care. Now and then a cast-off frock or an extra mince pie slips into the load, as it were accidentally; but in general Santa Claus strikes at higher game,—gilt books, and sugar-plums, and fur tippets, and new hoods, and crying babies, and rocking-horses, and guns, and drums, and trumpets;—and what have poor children to do with these? Not but they might have something to do with them.