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Santa's Helper

It was Herb who discovered it. He went into the Read Me Now bookstore to ask Sarah if she had the latest Farmer’s Almanac (he always plants vegetables in the bowels of something) and found she had hired a Santa’s helper to talk to the children.

“Well, that’s good,” Doc said. “Maybe those little nippers will enjoy having a Santa to talk to.”

“But Doc,” Herb said, “she hired Windy Wilson!”

The Mule Barn truck stop right then and there lost at least fifteen bucks’ worth of breakfast, because we paid for our initial infestation of coffee and left, en masse, for the book...

 
 
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