For Younger Listeners
' The Tear of an Angel'
A Christmas story by David Lindsay told by David
followed by For Children of Most Ages
' How Santa Claus
Came to Simpson's Bar '
A play for Christmas byRalph de Rohan
Based on the story by Bret Harte
Produced by David Davis
It was Christmas Eve in the year 1862. In the valley of the Sacramento heavy rain had been falling: in places the river had overflowed its banks and Rattlesnake Creek was impassable. The little mining settlement of Simpson's Bar, rough and ready as the men who built the wooden shacks of which it was composed, clung like a swallow's nest 10 the side of Table Mountain and shook in the blast.