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“I am,” answered a tinkling

voice.

“I am the little New Year.

Ho! Ho! I’ve promised
to bring a blessing to

everyone. But I am such
a little fellow. I need

somebody to help me
distribute them. Won’t you

come and help, please?”

“Oh! It is so cold!” said

Maurice. “I would rather go back to my warm bed,” and he shivered
as Jack Frost, who was passing, tickled him under the chin with one

of the frosty paint brushes.

“Never mind the cold,” urged the New Year. “Please help me.”

So, Maurice got ready and was soon out in

the yard. There he found a rosy-cheeked boy, tinkling a light ringing sound
distribute to give out and to
a little smaller than himself. He was pulling deliver
a large cart which seemed to be loaded with shivered shook slightly and
good things. On one part of the cart was uncontrollably due to cold
tickled touched lightly in a
painted the word ‘Love’ and on the other, way that it caused laughter

‘Kindness’. As soon as the New Year saw frosty very cold with frost on
Maurice, he said, “Now, please help me pull surface
urged requested earnestly to do
this.” Down the driveway and up the hill, they something
travelled until they came to an old shanty. yard ground around a house
usually covered with grass
“Here is where I make the first call,” said the driveway a short road leading

New Year. “But an old man lives here, and he from a public road to a house
hasn’t any children!” said Maurice, looking shanty a small house made
from pieces of wood, tin or
surprised. “He needs my help. Grown people cardboard
like to be thought of just as much as children call a brief visit

do. You can shovel out a path to his door shovel to clean out snow with
a tool that has a broad blade
while I unload some of my blessings.” The fixed to a handle

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