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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1973-12-22, Page 15May the Spirit of this Christmas zR Season bring you Joy and Peace MARTIN'S GENERAL STORE ST. HELENS WE WILL OPEN BOXING DAV 11:38 A.M. TO i P.M. wish hearty, and most sincere, with greetings glad to you and yours, from all of us, FOR A JOYOUS PETTER SHOES JESSIE, RUTH, MARY ELLEN, LORNE AND LES e.‘ ry Tuitomfg, DECEMBER n, irn THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO. 'PAGE Fl TEE A CHRISTMAS TREE ORPHAN Spirits are light! There's much happy cheer and merriment as 'we join in the celebration of Christmas. TED COWER Electrician BY GLORIA HOWALD Oh dear, it's that time of year again. It's the time for Santa Clause, lots of parties. presents . children's smiles and Christmas trees. As you have realized by now nobody has picked me for their Christmas tree as yet . But they have taken my mom . dad and baby sister. My dad gave them quite a fight but he lost just the same. The man who took him away must not have heard morn, sister and I crying because he didn't even look back at us. Then a very young couple came •and cut down my baby sister,. It took mom a long time before she got over losing her, but finally she shook the' snow from her bran- ches. straightened her trunk and whistled in the wind with me again. But alas just a few days ago a man came and took my mother away from me too. I hurt in. every place of me then. My trunk ached and my branches right to the top' of me pained and shook with grief. I know what happens to the trees at Christnrtastime. They are chopped down without mercy and taken to someone's home for the holiday season. Some .01 them are so crushed and broken by the -time they arrive there, they don't resemble their old self at all. After they arrive they are laden with' lights and tinsel and all kinds of decorations and are really quite pretty. It is little consolation though because when the holiday season is over they are thrown out they are not wanted anymore.. They are discarded DEAD! I also know that these people could have bought an artificial., tree in a store. Those trees were never alive, they don't have feel- ings like I do, But some people like an old- fashioned Christmas with a real tree like the man that came to me today while I was writing this. He was a very nice man and he brought along his whole family. There was himself. his wife and his three children, two girls and a ' boy. He came over to where I was standing android me that his family and himself wanted a Christmas tree. a real tree to put their gifts under but that they would never want to kill anything jUst to satisfy their own fancies, so could he please have Ida part of one of my branches. Then without much adieu he proceeded verytenderly to cut off a small portion of one of my branches. I must admit that it hurt a bit but not at all like the painful pain I felt when my, mom, dad and sister were taken away from me, or what it would have felt ' like had he murdered me. My little bit of pain was' shut lived when I saw the happin.m in their faces. When they, were leaving the little boy waved at me and I wit lucky because 'a little breeze came along and I was able to wave back. everiNUY`eber. thisnestYearyear, .le'rwiEa lliibey17°: chopped down forAgneone's old- fashioned Christh as. but at least I won't die thinitd%. like my, pu- nts and sism did taw all the people in this world are cruet amf think only of their own hapr,ita&ss , Mem- Christmas to you and I It that yen wish me the same. Santo is here to wish you oil good deer, and so are we! We're 16099 that all of - the greatest holiday gifts !It yours.