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The Gifts That Failed
George Ade sketches the peculiarly prickly Christmas shopping of Sidney Payson, who decides to gift wildly useless items to relatives. He selects a bawdy love-story for a niece, a noisy scarf for a sister, a corkscrew for a temperance husband, and eight cheap cravats for a six year old, provoking mixed, heartfelt replies from recipients.
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R. Sidney Payson
Mr. Payson
Satan
Bilel
Sidney Payson
Mr.Payson
Flavinla Josephua
Fred
Sakesgirl
Slater
Isabel
Sir Hector
Ibsen and
Howelle
Henry James
Payson
Brother
Sidney Dear
Bidney
Kingdom of Letters
Sidney
Santa Claus
John
Providence
Josephus