Cast
Narrator
Hoodoo McFiggin

(Narrator stands, Hoodoo is sitting)

Narrator: This Santa Claus business is played out. It's a sneaking, underhanded method, and the sooner it's exposed, the better. I had a good opportunity of observing how the thing worked this Christmas, in the case of young Hoodoo McFiggin.

Hoodoo McFiggin is a good boy, a religious boy. He had been given to understand that Santa Claus would bring nothing to his father and mother because grown-up people don't get presents from the angels. So, he saved up all his pocket money and bought a box of cigars for his father and a 75-cent diamond brooch for his mother. His own fortunes, he left in the hands of the angels. But he prayed. He prayed every night for weeks that Santa Claus would bring him

Hoodoo: a pair of skates an…