The nurse put the baby's arms under the sheets and then pulled one up over its face and took the teacup away from the mother who didn't see what had happened and I came away while three young nurses were comforting the girl.

Most of the nurses were very beautiful, and I neglected my duties as Santa Claus to talk to them.

They would stop talking to get down on their knees and dust up the floor, which was most embarrassing, you couldn't very well ask to be let to help.

There was one coster who had his broken leg in a cage which moved with the leg no matter how much he tossed.

He was like the man "who sat in jail without his boots, admiring how the world was made," he spent all his waking hours in wrapt admiration of the cage-- He said to me "I've been here a fortnight now, come Monday, and I can't break my leg no how.