Then we'll bring Christmas presents home for you.

What a game we are playing, we poor folks here, along with Ambassadors whose governments pay them four times what ours pays.
But we don't give the game away, you bet! We throw the bluff with a fine, straight poker face.
Affectionately, W.H.P.
_To Frank N.Doubleday and Others_ London, Sunday, December 28, 1913.
MY DEAR COMRADES: I was never one of those abnormal creatures who got Christmas all ready by the Fourth of July.

The true spirit of the celebration has just now begun to work on me--three days late.

In this respect the spirit is very like Christmas plum-pudding.

Moreover, we've just got the patriotic fervour flowing at high tide this morning.