[Illustration: The Prisoner's Van.]
[Page 74--Santa Claus Land]
I have given no Fairy Tales in this Childland. For in this
_matter-of-fact_ age belief in Fairy Tales and all kinds of wonderful
fictions is fast vanishing. Santa Claus, the "bestest" "goodest"
fairy of all alone remains: and even he is gradually being doubted by
all but the most innocent children, but as he as a personality is
still largely amongst us, I give his popular history culled from many
sources.