Merry Christmas and welcome to Homeschool Story Time: Week 46.
This will be the last story of the year.
This week’s story is about growing up. A boy named John realizes that his tastes for certain things have changed with age.
Read on to find out more.
That Merry Christmas
by Uncle Charles
What a glad noise there was that Christmas morning! The children had got up early to look in their stockings. John’s were not quite large enough to hold all of his gifts. It is rather hard to crowd a sword, a gun, and a rocking horse all into one stocking.
Mary had a fine new doll. Harry had a box, and, on taking off the cover, up sprang a wise-looking little man, with a cap on his head. Jessy had a doll, and a very pretty one it was too. Tommy had a what-do-you-call-it.
John mounted his horse, waved his sword, and held up his gun. But very soon he began to get tired of them all. The thought came into his head that he was more than eight years old. “What do I want of these toys?” said he. “Why was I so silly as to choose them, when Aunt Susan would have given me a microscope?” And John laid down his sword and gun, feeling quite above such childish things.
When Aunt Susan came, she saw that John did not seem as glad over his presents as the rest of the children did over theirs. “What is the matter, John?” she asked. “Why are you not playing with your toys?”
“Aunt Susan,” said John, “I wish I had taken the microscope. Is it too late?”
“No, John. I thought you might repent your choice, so I said to Mr. Grover, who keeps the toy shop, ‘I think I shall want to change the microscope: can I do so?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ His shop will be open till eleven o’clock. So run round and get the microscope, and tell him to send tomorrow and take back the toys.”
In five seconds John had on his hat, and was running down the street to Mr. Grover’s. He came back with the microscope in about half an hour, and was full of joy at the change. A Merry Christmas it was then for all the children!
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