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The Real McClaus - - A Christmas Evening sketch in a department store to come to work in a good suit of clothes every day. So will you please stop this nonsense and hand over that suit. SANTA â€" I know it’s difficult for you to un- derstand. sir. but please try (continued from page 31) With Variable speed, slow motion, zoom lens. Super 8 and Dual 8 projection. 400 feet capacity. HANIMEX 800 DLS MOVIE PROJECTOR MANAGER â€" Oh no you don’t. Just stay where you are. (Goes to phone). Give me security, please Hello, Mr. Barnes? Gregson here in Toytown. Could you' come down. or send one of to. You see, I really should be on my way. your men. I’m having‘a bit of trouble with our Santa. He refuses to turn in his suit. MANAGER â€" (cont’d) â€" What’s that? Yes. don't worry. I can hold him till you get here. Thank you. (Hangs up and turns to Santa). 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Ash shaft. 38-45 inches. THE LIBERAL. Tuesday. Dec. 24, 1974 â€"- BARNES â€" (laughing uproariouslyt â€" Ho. ho. ho‘ that's a good one. Down the chimney in your underwear. Boy. this guy really does think he‘s the real McCoy. Or I guess that should be the real McClaus. (Laughs heartily again at his joke). MANAGER â€" If you don’t mind, Mr. Barnes, 1 wish you‘d do your duty. Believe me, you wouldn‘t find it so funny if you had to put up with it as long as I did. BARNES â€" Harrumph â€"â€" yes. All right, Mr. Claus. come on over here in the light where I can get a better look at you Hmmmm. that suit seems to be just a shade darker than our Santas usually wear. What have you been doing to it? (Jingling of sleigh bells is heard in the distance.) SANTA â€" What have I been doing to it? Why. this is light to when I first got it. Why it was almost crimson in those days. MANAGER â€" When was that. Mr. Claus? Back in the days of the Scarlet Pim- pernell, I suppose? SANTA â€" Oh long before that. Besides, his coat was hardly crimson. BARNES â€"- And yours is hardly scarlet . . .Say . l . ain't I seen you somewhere before? You look familiar. SANTA â€" I guess I should . . . Boswell. After all. many a Christmas Eve you snuck down from upstairs and waited by the fireplace for me to come around. BARNES â€" Boswell! You called me Boswell! Ain‘t nobody called me that since I waé seven years old. Wasn’t nobody brave enough. I woulda killed ’em. SANTA â€" Yes, you started calling yourself Dusty the next year. as I remember. l heard about it from somebody else, because you weren‘t around at your usual spot waiting for me. Matter of fact. you were still in bed Remember? BARNES â€" (Slowly) â€"â€" Yes. . .yes.Ido. . .now.I wanted to go down. but my big brother, who was 10, said there wasn't any Santa Claus, and I didn't want him to make fun of me. SANTA â€" And by the next year you had grown out of it. But you‘d always believed up to then That's why you knew me now. Not like Mr. Gregson here, who never believed, and so never can BARNES â€" Do you still leave the same way as always? You kn0w, your finger to the side of your nose . . . going SANTA -â€" You don’t have to; he’s forgotten already. In fact, as soon as you acknowledged ~ me, I disappeared from his view. You'll notice he's been busy with a customer for the past few minutes. SANTA â€" Yes, and it still works just as well as ever. Come here. I'll show you. There’s a nice. wide fireplace in the president’s office; he never believed in me, either. You can watch me from here. (Walks off a few steps and turns around). Goodbye, Boswell, and a very Merry Christmas. BARNES â€" So long, Santa. Take care and watch out for any cruising astronauts. And Santa, don’t tell anybody my real name. (Santa’s Ho, Ho, H0, is heard in background). BARNES â€" But what about Mr. Gregson? How do I explain to him? MANAGER â€" Well, hello Barnes. What brings you down here? Little late to be dropping off your letter to Santa, isn’t it? MANAGER â€" Wen, nothing I ever said to him ever seemed to work, as I fecaH. BARNES â€" Maybe you just didn’t believe in him hard enough. BARNES â€" (Reflec- tively). I guess that all depends on what you’ve got to say. MANAGER â€" When I see him. Barnes, then I’ll believe in him, MANAGER â€" Don’t worry, you'll be the first one I'll call. believe me. BARNES â€" Well. let me know if you ever do. BARNES â€" I already do Merry Christmas, Mr Gregson. MANAGER â€"â€" Merr) Christmas, Mr. Barnes. (Loud jingling of sleigh bells is heard in background). AURORA: The York Potters Guild will have their new kiln installed on one of the former jail cells this month. The guild meets the first Wednesday of each month. ANOTHER $500 '74 WINNER Y.C.A.M.R. “500" Well. I'd better be TOKEN N0. 050 G. W. Beltridge Richmond Hill Merry