But it will make you well, you know, _says_ POLLY _encouragingly._
Only you have to wait a little for the medicine to work.

And you came all the way to the North Pole, to bring me this medicine?
_says_ SANTA CLAUS, _looking from Polly to Jack and back to Polly
again_. How did you get here?

First, we went up the chimney, _says_ JACK, I saw the steps with
the fairy spectacles, you know.

And then, _says_ POLLY, I held fast hold of his hand, and wished.
I had the wishing-cap, you see.

But weren't you afraid? _asks_ SANTA CLAUS. When you climbed up the
black chimney, and when you stood on the top, in the black night under
the stars, and when you came flying through the air, weren't you
frightened?

Well, it wasn't much fun, _says_ POLLY, but we didn't know how else
to get here.

And we knew you were sick, _says_ JACK.

But, _asks_ SANTA CLAUS, what difference did it make to you
children whether an old man like me was sick or not?

Why, Santa Claus, _answers_ POLLY, we all just love you, you know.

Well, well, _says_ SANTA CLAUS. _Then he lays down his cane on
the floor, and stretches himself, and stands up, and walks across the