Santa Came by Stage
SANTA CAME BY STAGE
© Craig MacDonald
(Some children reach an age when they become skeptical about the existence of Santa Claus. My grandmother lived near the site of the following story she told me when I was young. Years later I passed it on to my son.)
In the 1880s, a 10-year-old named Carl Browne, was told by older friends that Santa was a fake. But Browne, a resident of Jolon in Monterey County, refused to disbelieve. He did, however, set out to try to find the truth. After all, how could Santa drive a sleigh over sometimes snowless roads in California?
Carl reasoned that if Santa was for real, he probably had to drive a stagecoach. The curious kid devised a plan to find out, once and for all, if there was a Santa.
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