The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus Quotes

“We believe now," the children and the fathers and the mothers all said to each other with the light of faith that little lame Stephen had inspired on their faces. "We believe that Saint Nicholas will always come to us as long as there is one child alive in the village." "In the village!" echoed little Stephen. "In the whole world!" he shouted triumphantly.”
― Amelia C. Houghton, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

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― Amelia C. Houghton, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

“Yes, he's Saint Nicholas now!" They all took up the shout, and the whole town joined the glad cry, "Saint Nicholas! Saint Nicholas!" A baby's voice tried to add his stumbling speech to the general shout. "Sant' Clos! Sant' Clos!" he lisped.”
― Amelia C. Houghton, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

“He says to do a thing when you are really afraid is braver than if you felt no fear at all.”
― Amelia C. Houghton, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

“He looked up; Donder and Blitzen looked up at their bad child; Prancer, Dasher, Dancer, Cupid, and Comet looked up at their mischievous young brother, who was perched on the roof of the cottage, playfully butting the chimney with his horns.”
― Amelia C. Houghton, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

“He went into another gale of laughter, then made his way through the crowd to the Squire, where he finally concluded the bargain, and acquired not two, but eight reindeer,—Donder and Blitzen, the mamma and papa, with their six children, Dasher and Dancer, Comet and Cupid, and Prancer and Vixen.”
― Amelia C. Houghton, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

“it's an all- day trip—twenty miles”
― Amelia C. Houghton, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

“As the year passed, the little boy gradually forgot his grief in the busy, happy life of the Bavran household.”
― Amelia C. Houghton, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus