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It wastiti, ore,Clirlaho' x01*
the snow was to pile hgIw
branches Of the pine trees, who
look thele 'IOW host, Soon lt
childreniWoOlhe 110004 un the
sidolittearCh Quit Steen& glistenihg tree
to take ho n14 with them. 'For tomorrow
would be the Most special di* (*the year.
This was the Christmas for which, the little
pine tree with the twisted braneh had been
waiting. Now he was just the right size. And
he could hardly wait until some starry-eyed
youngster would rush up to him and point
and say, "Here's mine!" Then he would be
hauled down the mountain and into the
valley. There he would be set up in front of
someone's window and decorated gaily with
bells and bangles and baubles.
The little tree did not mind that one of his
strongest branches was twisted. It had been
stepped on and nearly broken by one of the
curly -horned sheep that roamed the moun-
tainside. He was just a sapling at the time,
and he was proud of having grown so strong
in spite of the accident.
Soon joyful cries began to ring out over
the countryside. Through the snow plowed
an army cf children, laughing and talking
and throwing snowballs at one another. The
little tree really couldn't see just which child
he would like to go with. He shook himself to
make sure that all of his branches stuck out
full and straight. And he held the twisted one
so that it poked up cheerfully in the air.
The children were in the midst of the trees
now, looking carefully at each one. First one
child and then another would cry joyfully,
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- -"This s the one* MOW'
• ttiardv proudly with hie own spec.
• CIWIStmas litoo tachod, under his 0014 The
Up Of the it a little, pathholthatin the
• *fat&
little!The; tried to .atitact. one f•,,the
$00gOtOTa4He even, nodded the •tinofhis
twIsteibranch Apt a Win ordetto •
attention, But him nowhere.
Filially one ehtd lifOinted to hliztaild said"
"Ilerc'eareal fat one. I think 1"11.toke him."
Another child came over and looked at the
little tree. "Ah, can't you see," he said,
• "that one's got a broken limb,"
• So they went away -and brand another tree
..• • not nearly so strong as he was. They march-
ed down the mountainside and out of sight.
It grew darker, and there was no sound
but the falling snow. All of the children were
gone. The little tree tried to understand why
his crooked limb would not be beautiful in
the eyes of a child, but there was no answer.
He drew up his branches even higher to keep
the snow from weighing them down. He
prepared to sleep until the spring rains
came and washed away the hurt of not being
wanted that he felt inside.
Just as he began to go to sleep he heard
the voices of a man and a boy coming up the
mountainside. The child held his father's
hand tightly and had to move slowly through
the snow.
The little tree looked and looked. Why, he,
too, had a broken limb! He could not walk as
fast or as well as the other children who had
come earlier.
The boy and the man shuffled through the
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