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Pickard, Victoria Street, next to the Cathoic Church
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by L. E. Dancer, 1127
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1886
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member Ontario College of Physicians , and
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A CHRISTMAS OAROL.d " Always a delicate areatuxe, whole a
BY CHARLES DICKENS.
STAVE ONE.
STAVE TWO.
THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS.,
They left the high -road, by a well remem-
bered Iane, end soon appraachefi a mansion
of dull red. brick, with a little weathercock -
surmounted cupola, on the roof, and a bell
hanging in it. It was a large house, but
one of broken fortunes for the spacious
offices were little used', their walls were
damp 'and mossy, their windows broken,-,
and their gates decayed. Fowls clucked
and strutted in the stables; and the coach-
houses and sheds were over=run with grana.
Nor was it more • retentive of its ancient
state, within I for entering the dreary hall,
and .glancing through the, open doors of
many rooms, they found them poorly. fur-
nished, cold, and vast. There was an earthy
savor in the air,- a chilly bareness in the
place, whioh aesooiated itself Somehow with
too much getting up by candle -light, and
not too much to eat.
They went, the Ghost and Scrooge, acrosar
the hall, to a door at the back of , the house,
It opened before them, and disclosed a long,
bare, melancholy room, made barer still by
lines of plain deal forms and- desks. At one
of these- a lonely_: boy was . reading near a .
feeble fire ;; and Scrooge sat down upon a
form, and wept to see his poor forgotten
self as it used to be. f
Not a latent echo in the house, not a
squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the
panelling, not a drip from the half -thawed
waterspout in the dull yard behind, not a
sigh among the leafless boughs of one des-
pondent poplar, not the idle swinging of
an empty store -house door, no, not a click-
ing in the fire, but fell , upon the head of
Scrooge with a softening influence, and gave
a freer passage to his tears. -
The Spirit touched Min on the arhn, and
pointed to his younger self, intent upon his
reading.
Suddenly a man, in foreign garments ;
wonderfully! real and distinct to look at,
stood outside the window,with au axe stuck
in his belt, and leading by the bridle an ass
laden with wood.
" Why, it's Ali Baba !" Sorooge exclaim-
ed in ecstasy. " It's dear old honest Ali
Baba !" - Yes, yes, I know ! One Christmas
time, when yonder solitary child was left
here all alone, he did come, for - the first
time, just like that. Poor boy 1 And Val-
entine," said Sorooge, " and his wild
brother,, Orson ; there they go ! And
what's his name, who was put down in his
drawers,' asleep, at the Gate of Damascus
don't you see him 1 And the Sultan's
Groom turned upside down by the Genii ;
here he is upon his head ! Serve him
right. I'm glad of it. What business had
to be married to the Princess !"
To hear Scrooge expending all the earn-
estness of his nature on such subjects, in a
most extraordinary voice between laughing
ud crying.; and to see, his heightened and
xcited face; would have been a surprise to
is business friends in the city, indeed.
There's the Parrot !" cried Sorooge.
` Green body and yellow tail, with a thing
ke a lettuce growing out of'the top of his
ead ; there he is ! Poor Robin Crusoe,
e called him, when he came home again
after sailin round the island. Poor Robin
usoe,wye$;e have you been, Robin Crusoe?"
The manought he was dreaming, but he
ash t, was the Parrot, you know.
here goes Friday, running for his life to
e little creek ! Halloo !. Hoop ! Halloo !"
Then, with a rapidity, of transition very
reign to his usual character, he said,, in
ty to his former self; " Poor boy !" and
er
again.
" I wish," ,Scrooge muttered, putting his
and in his pocket, and looking about him,
ter drying his eyes with his cuff ; but it's
o late now."
'` Wbat is `he matter ?" asked• the
irit.
" Nothing," said Sorooge. " Nothing.
ere was a bo singing' a Christmas Carol
my door las night. I should like to
ve given him omething ; that's all."
The Ghost smiled thoughtfully, and
ved its hand ; saying as it did so, " Let
see another Christmas ?"
` Scrooge's former self grew larger at the
rds, and the room became a little darker
d more dirty. The panels shrunk, the
ndows cracked ; fragments of plaster fell
of the ceiling, and the naked laths were
wn instead ; but. how all this was
tight about, Scrooge knew no more than
do. He only knew that it was quite
reef ; that everything had happened so ;
t there he was, alone again, when all the
er boys had , gone Thome for the jolly
idays.
e was not reading now, - but walking up
dawn despairingly. Scrooge looked at
Ghost, and with a mournful shaking of
head, glanced anxiously towards the
opene$1 ; and a little girl, much young-
han the boy, came darting in, and put -
her arms about his neck, and often
ing him, addressed him as her " Dear,
r brother."
I have come to bring'' you home, dear
her !" said the child, clasping,her tiny
s, and bending down: to laugh. t' To
g you home, home, home !"
Home, little Fan ?" returned the boy.
Yes !" said the child,' brimful of glee.
ome for good and- all. Home, for ever
ever. Father is so much kinder than
sed to be, that home's like Heaven !
poke so gently to me one dear night
I was going to bed, that I was not
d to ask him once more if you might
home ; and he said yes, you should ;
ent me in a coach to bring you. And
re to be a man !" said the child, open-
er eyes, "and are never to come back
; but first, we're to be together all the
tmas long, and have the merriest time
the world,"
You are quite a, woman, little Fan !"
imed the boy
e clasped her hands and Iaughed, and
Oto touch his head ; but being too lit-
aughed again, and stood. on tiptoe to
ace him. Then she began to drag him,
r childish eagerness, towards the door ;
e, nothing lotn to go, accompanied
errible voice in the hall cried, " Bring
Master Scrooge's box, there !" and in
all appeared the school master himself,
lared on Master Scrooge with a fern.
condescension, and threw him into a
fuIstate of mind by shaking hands
him. He then conveyed- him and .his
into the veriest old well of a shivering
arlor that ever was seen, where the
upon the wall, and the celestial and
trial globes in the windows, were
with cold. Here he produced a de -
of curiously light wine, and a block
ously heavy cake, and administered
ments of those dainties to the young
at the samit, time, sending out a
e servant to offer a glass of - some -
to the'postboy, j who - answered
he thanked the gentleman, but
was - the same tap as he had
before, he had better n ot.
r Scrooge's trunk being by this time
to the top of the chaise, the children
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fl dash
—A fire broke out early Christmas morn-
ing in the stables of the Protestant Insane
syium, at Verdun, Quebec. Nine hor: es
were burned to death, and the stables en-
tirely destroyed.
ing the hoar -frost and snow from off the
dark leaves of the evergreens like spray.
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breath might have. withered," said the
Ghost. " But she bad a large heart 1"
" So she had," cried Sorooge. " You're
right. I will not gainsay ..t, Spirit.! God
forbid 1'
"She died a woman," said the Ghost,
and had, as I think, children."
" One child," Scrooge returned. -
"True," said the Ghost. "Your ,nephew` 1"
Sorooge seemed uneasy in his mind ; and
answered briefly, " Yes." -
Although they had but that moment left
the school behind them, they were now in
the busy thoroughfares of a city, where
shadowy passengers passed and repassed ;
where shadowy carts and coaches battled
for the way, and all the strife and tumult of
a real city were. It was made plain enough,
by the dressing of the shops, that here . too
it was Christmas time again ; but it was
evening, and the streets were lighted up.
The Ghost stopped- at a certain ware-
house door, and asked Scrooge if he knew
it. ,
Know it 1" said Scrooge. " Was, I ap=
prenticed here 1" -
They went in. At sight of an slid gentle-
man in a Welsh wig, sitting behind such a
high desk, that if he had been two inches
taller he •must have knocked his head
against the ceiling, Scrooge Dried in great
excitement :
Why, its old Fezziwig 1 Bless his.
heart; it's Fezziwiialive again !"
Old Fezziwig laid down his pen, and
looked up at the clock, which pointed to;
the hour of seven. He rubbed his hands ; F
adjusted his capacious waistcoat ; laughed!
all over himself, from his organ of benevo-I
lence ; and called out in a comfortable, oily,
rich, fat, jovial voice '
" Yo ho, there 1 Ebenezer 1, Dick 1"
Scrooge's former self, -now grdwn a young
man, came briskly in, accompanied by his
fellow-'prentice.
"Dick Wilkins, to be sure!" said Scrooge
to the Ghost. " Bless me, yes. There he
is. He was very much attached to me, was
Dick. Poor Dick ! Dear, dear 1"
"Yo ho, my boys 1" said Fezziwig. "No
more work to -night. Christmas Eve, Dick.
Christmas, Ebenezer ! Let's have the shut-
ters up," cried old Fezziwig, with a sharp
clap of his hands, " before a man can say
Jack Robinson !"
You wouldn't believe how these two fel-
lows went at it ! They charged into the
street with the shutters -one, two, three—
had 'em up in their places—four,, five, six ---
barred 'em and pinned 'em—seven, eight,
nine—and came back before you could have
got to twelve, panting like race -horses.
"Hilli-ho !" Dried old Fezziwig; skipping
down from the high desk, with wonderful
agility. " Clear away, my lads, and let's
have lets of room here ! Hilli-ho, Dick !
Chirrup, Ebenezer 1"
Clear away ! There Mas nothing they
wouldn't have cleared -away, ; or couldn't
have cleared away, with old Fezziwig look-
ing on. It was done in a minute. Every
movable was packed off, as if it were dis-
missed front, pu lie life for ever more the
floor was swet and watered, the lamps
were trimd, fuel was heaped upon the
fire ; and th warehouse was as snug, and
warm, and dd y, and bright a ball-room,as
you would desire to see upon a winer's
night.
In came a fiddler with a music -book, and
went up to the lofty desk, and mare an or-
chestra, of it, and tuned like fifty stomach-
aches. In came Mrs. Fizziwig, one vast
substantial smile. In came the three Miss
Fizziwigs, beaming and loveable. In came
the six young followers whose hearts they
broke. In came all the young men and
women employed in the business. Incame
the housemaid, with her cousin, the baker.
In came the cook, with her brother's par-
ticular friend, the milkman. In came the
boy from over the way, who was suspected
of not having board enough from his
master ; trying to hide himself behind the
girl fromnext door but tine,: who was
proved to have her ears pulled
tress. In they all came, one af
some shyly, some boldly, some
some awkwardly, some pushing
by her mis-
er another ;
gracefully,
some pull -
mg ; in they all came, anyhow[ and every -
how. Away they all went, twenty couple
at once ; hands half round and back , again
the other. way ; down the middle and up
again ; round and round in various stages
of affectionate grouping ; old top couple
always turning up in the wrong
place ; new top couple starting off
again, as soon as they got there ; all
top couples at last, and not a bottom one to
help them ! When this result was brought
about, old Fezziwig, clapping his hands to
stop the ' dance, cried out, " Well done !"
and the fiddler plunged his hot face into a
pot -of porter, especially provided for that
purpose. But scorning rest, upon his reap-
pearance, he` instantly began again, though
there were no dancers yet, as if the other
fiddler had been carried home, ewchausted,on
a shutter, and he were a bran.new man re-
solved to heat him out of sight, or perish.
There were more dances, and there were
forfeits, and more dances, and there was
cake, and there was negus, and there was a
great piece of Cold Roast, and there were
a great piece of Cold Boiled, and there were
mince -pies, and plenty of beer. But the
great effect of the ,evening came after the
Roast and Boiled, when the fiddler (an art-
ful dog, mind ! The sort of man who knew
his business better than you or I could have
told it him 1) struck up " Sir Roger de Cov-
erley." Then old Fezziwig stood out to
dance with Mrs. Fezziwig. Top couple,
too ; with a good stiff piece of work cut
'out for them ; three or four and twenty
pair of partners ; people whe are not to be
trifled with ; people who would dance, and
had no notion of walking. .
But if they had been twice as many—ah,
four times—old Fezziwig would have been a
match for them, and so would Mrs. Fezzi-
wig. As to her, she was worthy to be his
partner in every sense of the term. If
that's not high praise, tell me higher, and
I'll use it. A, positive light appeared to
issue from .Fezziwig's calves, They shone in
every part of the dance like moons. You
couldn't have predicted, at any given time,
what would have become of them next.
And when old Fezziwig had gone all
through the dance; advance and retire,both
hands to your partner, bow and curtsey, .
corkscrew, thread -the -needle, and back
again to your place; Fezziwig "cut "---cut
sof eftly, that he appeared to wink with his
legs, and game upon his feet again without
a stagger.
When the clock struck eleven,thia domestic
ball broke up. Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig took
their stations, one on either side of the
door, and shaking hands with every- person
individually, as he or she went out, wished
him or her a Merry Christmas. When ev-
erybody had retired but the two 'prentices,
they did the same to them ; and thus the
cheerful voices died away, and the dada
were left to their beds; which were under a
counter in the back -shop.
During the whole of this time, Scrooge
had acted like a man out of his wits. His
heart and soul were in the scene, and with
his former self. He corroborated everything,
remembered the Ghost; and became con-
scious that it was looking full upon him,
while the light upon its head burnt very
clear.
" A small matter," said the Ghost, " to.
make these silly folks so full of gratitude.
" Small!" echoed Scrooge.
The Spirit signed to him to listen to the
two apprentices, who were - pouring out
their hearts in praise of Fezziwig ; and
when he had done sq, said,
" Why ! Is it not? He has spent but a
few pounds of your mortal money; three or
C�i8tTA13IA.
The foot
simile / lit/ ` Is on
four , perhaps. ,
Is �theit so much that he
deserves this praise
`` It isn't that," said Sorooge, heated by
the remark, and speaking unconsciously
like his former, not his latter-, self. "It
isn't that, Spirit. He has the power to
render ue`happy or unhappy ; to make our
service light or burdensome e a .pleasure or
a toil. Say that t hie power lies in words
and looks ; in things so. slight and insig-
nificant that it is . impossible to add and
count 'em up ; what then ? The happiness
he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a
fortune."
• H
'' What is the matter ?" asked the Ghost.e felt the Spirit's glance, and stopped.
" Nothing particular," said Scrooge.
" Something! I think ?" the Ghost in-
sisd.
"teN o," said Scrooge, "Igo, I should like
to be able to say a word or two to my clerk
just now, ' Tht's all."
His former self turned down the lamps. as
he gave utterance to the wish ; and Scrooge
and the Ghost ,again stood . slide by side in
the open air.
"My •time ;grows short," observed the
Spirit. "Quick !"-
This was not addressed to Scrooge, or to
any one whom he could see, but it pro-
duced an immediate effect. For again
Scrooge saw himself. He was older now; a
man in the prime of. life. His fade hadnot
the harsh and rigid lines' of later years :
but it had begun to wear the signs of care
and avarice.
There was an eager,. greedy, restless
motion in the eye, which showed the passion
that had taken root, and where the shadow
of the growing tree would fall.
He was not alone, but sat by the side of
a young girl in a mourning -dress ; in whose
eyes there were tears, which sparkled in the
light that shone out of the Ghost of Christ-
mas Past.
"It matters Mak"' she said, softly. "To
you, very little. Another idol has displac-
ed me and if it can cheer and comfort you
in time to come, as I would .have tried to
do, I have no just oaude' to grieve."• -
" What idol has displaced you ?" he .re
joined.
" A golden one."
" This is the even-handed dealing of the
world !" he said, _ " There lit nothing on
which itis so hard as poverty and there is
nothing it professes to condemn with such
severity as the pursuit of wealth 1"
" You fear the worldtoo much," she
answered, gently. " All your other hopes
'have merged into the hope of being beyond
the chance of its sordid reproach. I have
seen your nobler,aspirations fall off one by
one,until the master-paasion,Gain,engrosaes
you. Have I not ?"
What then ?" he retorted i ' " Even if
I have grown so much wiser, what then ?,
I am not changed towards you,"
She shook her head.
"AmI?"
" Our contract is an old one. It was
made when we were both poor and content
to beso, until, in good season, we could
improve our wordly fortune by our patient
industry. You are changed. When it was
made, you were another man."
" I was a boy," he said impatiently.
" Your own feeling tells you that you
are not what you were," she returned. I
am. That which promised happiness when
we were one in heart, is fraught with
misery now that we are two. How often
and how keenly I have 'thought of this, I
will not say. It is enough that I have
thought of it, and can reease you."
` Have I ever sought release ?"
In words. - No. Nelve "
r,
In what, -then ?"
In a changed - nature ; in an altered
it; in another atmosphere of life; an-
er Hope as its great end. In every
g that made my love of any worth or
e -in your sight. If thins had• never
n between us," said the girl, looking
dly, but with steadiness, , upon him
11 me would you seek me out and' try
in me now ? Ah, no !"
e seemed to yield to the justice of this
position, in spite of himself. But he
with a struggle,' " You think not."
I would gladly think otherwise if I
d," she answered, " Heeven knows 1
n I have learned a truth like this, -I
w how strong and irresistible it must
But if you were free to-day,to-morrow,
rday, can even I believe that you
d choose a dowerlesa girl --you who, in
very confidence with her, weigh every -
g by Gain : or, choosing her, if for a
ent you were false enough leo, your one
ing principle to do so, do .1 not know
your repentance and regret would
y follow ? I do ; and I release you.
a full heart, for the love of him you
were."
was about to speak ; but with . her
turned from him, she resumed.
You may—the memory of what is past
makes me hope you will—have pain in
A very, very brief time, and you will
es the recollection of it, gladly, as an
ofitable dream, from which it happened
that you awoke. May you be happy
e life you have chosen !"
left him, and they parted:
pint !" said Scrooge, " show me no
Conduct - me home. Why do you
t totorture me ?"
ne shadow more 1" exclaimed the
o • more !" cried Scrooge. " No
I don't wish to see it, Show me no
the relentless Ghost pinioned him in
is arms, and, forced. him to observe
happened next.
The
were in another scene and place ;
not very large or handsome., but full
fort. Near to the winter fire sat a
tiful young girl: so like that last that
e believed it was the same, until he
r, now a comely matron, sitting op -
her daughter. , The noise in this
as perfectly tumultuous, for there
ore children there, than .Scrooge in
fated mind could count ; and, unlike
ebrated herd in the poem, 'there were
ty children 'conducting themselves
e, but every child was conducting
ike forty, The consequences were
ora beyond belief '; but no one seem -
are ; on the contrary,'the mother
ughter laughed heartily, and enjoyed
much ; and the latter, anon begin -
mingle in the sports, got pillaged by
ng brigands most ruthlessly, What
I not have given to be one of them r
I never could have been so rude,
! I wouldn't for the wealth - of all
Id have crushed that braided hair,
rn it down ; and for the precious
oe, I wouldn't have plucked it off,
ss my soul to save my life. As to
ng her aist in'report, as they did,
Dung brood, I couldn't lave done it ;
d have expected my arm: to have
ound it for a punishment, and never
raiarly likht ed,
aI -ow and yet I should
; to have quest
ave opened the
e Iashes of her
ft
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unpr
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She
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both •h
what
room,
of com
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his agi
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and to
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measuri
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Ifirzoe-
Love lei the Bessie. Carving Sets
"How much does the baby
-weigh" is only another way
of asking, "Is he healthy and l
trong When a baby is ....De
c et Cutler
' Welcomed into the world with
loving 'care and forethought e
his chances of,health and Knives ass d F rks
strength are increased a him
Knives �ia7 1l
fired -fold.
- A prospective mother cannot begin too
early to look after her own health and phys-
ical
Spoons condition. This is sure to be reflected . SpQOnS
in th-e baby. Any weakness or nervous de -
.pression, or;lack of vigor on the mother'!
'part should be overcome early during the
expectant time by the. use of Dr. Pierce's
'Favorite Prescription, which promotes tate
'perfect health and strength of the organism
(specially concerned in motherhood.
It makes the coming of- baby absolutely
safe and comparatively -free
from pain; rem,
ders the mother strong and cheerful, and
transmits =healthy constitutional vigor to
the; child. -
No other medicine in the world has been
such an unqualified blessing to mothers and
their children. It is the one positive spe-
cific for all weak and diseased conditions
of the feminine organism. Itis the only
medicine of its kind • devised for this one
-purpose by a trained and educated special -
fist to this particular field:
C
JANUARY 8, 1897
Your
Our
hristmas presents from
w stock of
l Mrs, F. B. Cannings, of No. 4320 Humph
pt. Trouts. Mo:, writes : "I am now a
mother of a fine, hbalthy baby girl.. Fe
hour ' Favorite Prescription' and little '
have done me more hood than anything
ever taken. Three months previous to
finetnent I began using your medicine.
three bottles of the Prescription,'
quences were I was only in labor forty-fiv
utes. With my first baby I suffered 18
then had to lose him. He was very delica
only lived 12 hours. For two years 1 s
untold agony, and had two miscarriages
'` Favorite Prescription' saved both my chi
myself. My baby is not et three weeks
I do not think I ever fe�t better in my 1
ilea defenceless porterrj 1 The scaling him
with chairs for ladder's to dive into his
pockets, despoil him of brown -paper parcels,
hold on tight by his cr vat, hug him round
hie neck, pommel his ack, and kick his
legs in .irrepressible aflection 1 The shouts
of wonder and delightwith which the de-
velopment of every pa kage was received 1
The terrible'' announcement that'the baby
had been taken in the act of putting a doll's
frying -pan into his mouth, and was more
than suspected of having swallowed a ficti-
tious turkey, glued on a wooden platter !
The im enae relief of finding this a false
alarm ! The joy, and gratitude, and
creates . They are all indescribable alike. It
is enough that by degrees the children and
their emotions got out of the parlor and by
one stair at a time, up to - the top of the
house ; where they -went to bed, and so
subsided. ,
And new Scrooge looked on more atten-
tively than ever, "when the master of , the
house, having his daughter leaning fondly
on him, sat down with her and her mother
at his own fireside ; and when he thought
that such another creature, quite as grace-
ful and as full of promise, might have called
him father, and been a° spring -time in the
haggard winter of his life, his sight grew
very dim indeed.
" Belle," said the husband, turning to
his wife with a smile, " I saw an old friend
of yours this afternoon."
" Who was it ?"
" Guess !"
" How can I ? Tut, don't I know," she
added in the care breath, laughing as he
laughed. " Mr, Scrooge."
" Mr. Scrooge it was. I passed his office
window, and it was not shut up, and he had
a candle inside, I could scarcely help seeing
him. His partner lies upon the point of
death, I hear ; and there he sat alone.
Quite alone in the world, I do believe.''
" Spirit !" said Scrooge in a broken
voice, " remove me from this p!ace,"
" I told you these were ahado*s of the
things that have been," said the Ghost.
" That they are what they are, do not
blame me 1"
" Remove me 1" Scrooge exclaimed, " I
cannot bear it 1"
He turned upon . the Ghost, and seeing
that it looked upon him with a face, in
which some strange way there were frag-
ments of all the faces it had shown him,
wrestled with it..
" Leave me'! Take me back. Haunt
me no longer 1"
In the struggle, if that can be called a
struggle in which the Ghost with no visible
resistance on its own part was undisturbed
by any effort of its adversary, Scrooge ob-
served that its light was burning high and
bright ; and dimly connecting that with its
influence over him, ,he seized the extinguish-
er -cap, and by a sudden action pressed it
down upon its head.
The spirit dropped beneath it, so that. the
extinguisher covered its whole form ; but
though Scrooge pressed it down with all his
force, he could not hide the light, which
streamed from under it, in an unbroken
flood upon the ground.
He was conscious of being exhausted, and
overcome by an irrestible drowsiness ; and,
further, of tieing in his own bed -room. He
rey St.,
elhappy
hat
Pellets'
I have
my -con.
I took
Conse•
e min•
hours,
to and
uffered
The=.
Id and
oId and
ife."
oned her, that she
; to have looked
owncast eyes, and
never raised a blush ; to have let loose
waves of hair, an inch of which would be a
keepsake beyond price ;tin short,' I should
have liked, I do confessO to have had the
lightest license of a child, and yet to have.
been 'man enough to knoW ite value.
But now a knocking I at the door was
heard, and such a rush hinnediately ensued
that she with laughing fice and plundered
dress was borne towards it the centre of a
flushed and boisterous geoup, just in time
to greet the father, who came home attend-
ed lay a man laden with Christmas toys and
presents. Then the shouting and the strug-
gling, and the onslaught that was made on
The het I
simile la" to on
egoottue
of wrappea
gave the cap a parting squeeze, in which
his hand relaxed ; and had barely time to
„reel to bed before he sank into a heavy
(To be continued.)
•
—More than $12,000 has been raised for
the Sandwich sanitarium schenae.
—Mr. A. W. Campbell, good roads cem-
missioner, spent Christmas at Mayfair, in
attendance on his mother, who is very ill.
—Thomas Glees, of Toronto, contracted
blood poisoning through paring a corn with
his finger nail. He died Saturday.
—All of the married men employed by
the Toronto Street railway Company.got
turkeys for Christmas. Many of the single
men are going to be married before next
year's turkeys come round.
—The day before Christmas, School In-
spector Hughes, of Toronto, received a
note, which read as follOws " dear mister
Huse, please ecept 50 cents for a merry
chrismus the mimico boys. (Signed) The
Wilson brothers, Richmond -street.
—Twenty-two of the Canadians who went
to Brazil last fall, are being returned to
this country by the British Consul at Rio
Janeiro.
—Captain Meek and James McLeod, both
well' known residents of -Grenfelle North-
west Territory, had an altercation, and
Meek shot- McLeod in the breast. NC-
Leod's wound is -not serious. Meek is in
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HE GREATEST COLLECTION
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&Worth, on Friday, theel5th day of January, 1897,
at the hour of 1 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of
electing three directors for three years ; for the
hearing and receiving of the report of the transac-
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statement, the auditors' report, receipts and ex-
penditure, assets and liabilities, and any other bus-
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1516-2
—On Monday evening of last week,' Wale
laeetown presented, one of the gayest times
it has seen for Many years, in the way of an
oyster supper leld in honor of two of its
boys, Duncan'Borbes and Ben Sutherland,
who were shipwrecked on the doast of Ire-
land some six weeks ago.
DYE
WORKS.
Any person wishing to have am wool goods
of any kind dyed a fast and beautiful nokors. -
!either ladies' or gentlemen's, should give ffe
'Nickle a call. Goods called for and deliver*
ed. Wood and farm produce taken in ex4-
corner Market and ,OPJCI
streets, near front Broadfood'e factory.
HENRY NIOKLE.
'P. S.—Men's Women's and Children'
stockings knit a't Mrs. Niche's. 1506 -
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