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• (Continued from float wean)
"Off with yer boots, friend!" he
exclaimed when the Stanza was finish-
ed. "We don't have to set up and
watch like the shepherds."
We drew our boots on the chair
round with hands clasped over the
knee—how familiar is the process, and
yet I haven't seen it in more than
half a century! I lighted a candle
and scampered up -stairs in my stock-
ing feet, Uncle Peabody following
close and slapping my thigh as if
my pace were not fast enough for
him. In the midst of our skylarking
the candle tumbled to the floor and I
lied to go back to the stove and re-
light it.
How good ft seemed' to be back in
the old room under the shingles! The
heat of the stove -pipe had warmed
its hospitality.
"It's been kind o' lonesome here,"
said Uncle Peabody as he opened the
WI TICIOW. "I always let the wind come
in ,to keep me company—it gits so
warm."
I lay down between flannel sheets
on the old feather bed. What a stage
of dreams and slumbers it had been.
for it was now serving the third gen-
eration of Bayneses! The old popple
tree had thrown off its tinkling cym-
bals and now the winter wind hissed
and whistled in its stark branches.
Then; the deep, sweet sleep of youth
from which it is a joy and a regret
to come buck to the world again. I
wish that I could know it once more
"Ye can't look at yer stockin' yit,"
said Aunt Deel when I came downstairs about eight o'clock having slept
through chore time. I remember it
was the delicious aroma of frying
ham and buckwheat cakes which 'a-
woke me, and who wouldn't rise an
shake off the cloak of slumber on
bright, cold winter morning with such
provocation?
"This ain't no common Chris'mas-
1 tell ye," Aunt Deel went on. "Santa
Claus won't git here short o' noon I
wouldn't wonder—ayes!"
'13y thunder!" exclaimed Uncle
Peabody as he sat down at the table
'This is goin' to be a day o' pur,
fun—genawine anuncommon. Tak..
St.1710 griddlers," he added as three m
frur of them fell on my plate. "PO'
on plenty o' ham gravy an' mulas ae;
This ain't no Jackman tavern. I g
hold o' Fmnethin' down there the,
tasted so 1 had to swaller twice on it "
About eleven o'clock Uncle Hiro-.
and Aunt Mira and their five children
arrived with loud and merry greet-
ings. Then came other aunts and
encles and cousins. With what noi
good cheer the menentered the hot], •
after they ,had put up their horses!
I remember how they laid their hard
heavy hands on my head and shook
it a little as they spoke of my
"stretchin' up" or gave me a playful
slap on the shoulder—an ancient tok-
en of good will—the first form of
the accolade, I fancy. What joyful
good humor there was in those sim-
ple men and woment—enough to
temper the woes of a city if it could
have been applied to their relief.
They stood thick around the stove
warming themselves and taking off
its griddles and opening its doors and
surveying it inside and oat with much
curiosity.
Suddenly Uncle Hiram tried to put
Uncle Jabez in the wood -box while
the others laughed noisily. I remem-
ber that my aunts rallied me on my
supposed liking for "that Dunkelberg
girl."
,Now for the Chris'ma,s tree," said
Uncle Peabody as he teethe way in-
to our best room, where a fire was
burning in the old Franklin grate,
"Come on, boys an' 'girls."
What a wonderful sight was the
Christmas tree—the first vie had in
our house—a fine ,spreadingbalsam
loaded with presents! Uncle Hiram
jumped into the air and clapped his
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tree tin' run away with it.' us Vother day from an old uncle i
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O down lad, arid God give ye pa5tincel
Uncle Jabez held ono foot in both • Vermont... It ain't nothin' to brag
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hands before him and joyfully hop- but it'll give us a start an' we though
ped around the trtle. tbat while we had the money we'd"d
These relatives had brought their Scinethin? that we've been wantin' t
family gifts, some days before, to be do for year an' yeart—'give a Chris'
hung on its branches. The thing that nias:,--an' we've done it. The mone
caught my eye was a big silver watch will go some way an' we may neve
hanging . by a long golden chain to have another chance. Bart is a good
one of the boughs. • Uncle Peabody boy an' we made' up our minds he'
took it down and held it aloft by the enjoy it better now than he would
chain, so that none should miss the ag'in."
sight, saying: That Christmas brought me nothin
"From Santa Claus for Bart!" 1 better than those words, the memory
A murmur of admiration ran of which Is one of the tallest towers
through the company which gathered in that long avenue of my past down
around me as I held the treasure in which I have been looking these many
my trembling hands. • days. About all you can do for
This is for Bart, too," Uncle Pea- boy, worth while, is to give him some
body shouted as he took down a bolt thing good to remember.
of soft blue cloth and laid it in my ' The day turned dark. The tem
arms. "Now there's somethin. that's perature had risen and the air wa
jest about as lickAas a kitten's ear. dank and chilly. The men began to
Feel of it: Its for a suit o' clothes. hitch up their horses.
Come all the way from Burlington." "Kind o' thawin' a little," said
"Good land o' Goshen! Don't be Uncle Hiram as he got into his sleigh
in such a hurry," said Aunt Deel. and drove up to the door. "Come
"Sorry, but the stage' can't wait 00, there. • Stop yer raeklin' an' gi
fix nobody at all—it's due to leave jet() this sleigh," he shouted in grea
right off," Uncle Peabody remarked good humor to the women and child -
11,5 he laid a stuffed stocking on top ier who stood on the perch. "It'll be
of the cloth and gave me a playful snowin' like sixty 'fere we git home.'
slap and shouted: "Getup, there. So, one by one, th.• sleighloads Ieft
You've got yer load." us with cheery good Lys and a grind -
1 moved out of the way in a horri- okrunners and a jingling of bells
cane of merriment. It was his one WI:en the last had gene Uncle Pea -
great flap of pride and vanity. He Lody and I went int. the house. Aunt
did not try to conceal them: Deel at by the stove, old Kate by
The other present's floated for a • the window looking out at the falling
moment in this irresistible tide of dos k. How still the 1..w. seemed
laughing good will and found their ; "There's one thing I fergot," I said
owners. 1 have never forgotten how as I proudly took eet ef my wallet
1.1a,ele Jobe?. chased Aunt Minerva a_ 41.1e, six one -dollar bills which I had
ieund the house with a wooden snake earned by Working Saturdays and
cunningly carved andecolored. 1 th- Landed three of them 1,, my aunt and
served there were many things en the , three to my uncle, saying:
tree which had not been taken down "That is my Christmas present to
IA hen we younger ones gathered up • you. I earned it myself,"
our wealth and repaired to Aunt I remember so well their esti/111'W-
Deers room to feast our eyes Up011 inept and the trembling of their hands
it and compare our good fortune. ; and the look of their faces.
The women and the big girls roiled 1 ."It's grand—ayes!" Aunt Peel said
en their ,Iceves and went to work • in a low tone.
with Apr' Deel preparing the dinner, I She rose in a moment and beckon-
.
The great turkey and the chicken pie rd to me and my undo. We followed
were made ready and put in the even ; her through the open door to the other
t,nri t potatoes and the onions and j ronm.
the win'er squash were soon boiling "111 tell ye what I'd do," she whis-
in their po's on the stove -top. Mean- I Ix red. "I'd give 'en) to ol' Kate—
while the children were playing in my ayas! She's goin' t,. stay with us
aent's bedroom and Uncle Hiram and • till to -morrow."
Unel, z were milling sticks in a I "Good idee!" said IThele Peabody.
corner while the other men sat tip- So I took the meiley out of their
again,' the wall watching and hands and went in and gave it to
))..vftil comments—all say,. • th. Silent Woman.
•, y Peabody, who was trying , "That's your present from me." I
to -eh his head to the floor and said
,aaa ,traighten up with the aid ef /low can forget hay she held niy
'".1.0,,,Irt;i7hylelk.sitt on top of the wood familiar, rocking 012 2; a woman
arm against her wit h that loving,
wah which I had just filled. the big N5 )10 is soothing a hai,v at her breast
woorl.hox and very conscious of the ' and kissed my coat )leeve? She re-
eg chain on my breast. Sudden- hosed my arm and urning to the
ly th., giant Rodney Barnes, jumped windova leaned her baud upon its sill
•,' chair and, embracing the and shook with soh,. The dusk had
•.Y, ed- it and the wood and
\le i,• g -oat arms and danced light.
e-ed a group of the ladies with
}VP •, rd,n and set it down in its place
very gently. What a hero he became
in My 075 after that!.
ve shonld go off some day an'
come hack an' find yer house missin'
ye may know that Rodney Barnes
has been here." said Uncle Hiram,
"A man as stout as Rodney is about
as dangerous as a fire."
Then what Falstafllan peals of
laughter!
In the midst of it Aunt Deel open-
ed the front door and old Kate, the
Silent Woman, entered. To my sur-
prise, she wore a decent -looking dress
of gray homespun cloth and a white
cloud looped over her head and ears
and 'tied around her neck and a good
pair of boots.
"Merry Chris'mas!" we all shont-
ed.
She smiled and nodded her hear
and sat down in the chair which Uncle
Peabody had placed for her at the
stove side. Aunt Deel took the cloud
off her head while Kate drew her
mittens—newly knitted of the best
yarn, Then my aunt brought soma
stockings and a. shawl from the tree
and laid them on the lap of old Kate.
What a silence fell upon us as we
saw tears coursing down the cheeks
of this lonely old woman of the coun-
trysidel—tears of joy, doubtless, for
God knows how long it had been since
the, poor, abandoned soul had seen a
merry Christmas and shared its kind.
floss I did not fail to observe how
clean her face and hands looked; she
was greatly changed.
She took my hand as I went to her
side and tenderly caressed it. A gen.
tle) snide came to her face than ever
I had seen upon it. The old stern Aunt Deel an' I couldn't git over
look returned for a moment as she thinkin' o' what :.he done for you that
hi Id one finger aloft in a gesture night in the old halm. So I iook some
which only 1 and my Aunt Dec! un- o' yer aunt's g..,rd clothes to her an'
dtrstood. We knew it signalized n a pair o' boots asked her to come
peril and a mystery. That. I should 0, Chris'mas. :The lives in a little
have I 0 meet it, somewhere up the room over the 1.!ocksinith ghee /loom
hidden pathway, I had no doubt what- to Butterfield', mill. I told her I'd
come after her vii the cutter but she
('''''rDinner's ready!" exclaimed the shook her head. I knew she'd rather
cheerful voice of Aunt Deal.
Then what a stirring of chairs and Tic was Yawning' as he spelt,. and
feet as we sat down at the table. seon we were bet I) asleep antler the
shingles.
Gid Kate sat by the side of my aunt
7,1
0 It'll ;tam be over."
Little John ed me into the group
- • and the schoolmaster began:—Let us
Y call this bit of a story: The Guide to
r Paradise,
"One day in early June was Wu'
". under the big apple tree in the garden
—sure I was. It was an white and
sweet with the' blossoms like a bride
g In her veil—an' 1 -beard the hum o'
the bee's wing an' odorso' the upper
world come down to rae. I was look.
in' at the little bird house that we
had hung in the tree -top. Of a sud-
den I saw a tiny bit o' a 'warf—uo
longer than the thum o' Mary—God
love her!—on its wee porch an' look-
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in' down at me.
'"Good luck to ye!' says I. `Who
11881 you7"
"'Who do you think I am?' says
he.
"'Nobody,' says I.
"'That's just who I am,' says he,
I'm Nobody from Nowhere—God save
you from the like.'
"'Glad to see ye,' says I.
"'Glad to be seen,' says he. 'There's
a mighty few people can see me.'
"'Looks to me as i ye were tellin'
the truth,' says I. •
"'Nobody is the only one that al-
ways tells the truth—God help ye,'
says he. 'And here's a big chunk o'
it. Not one in a thousand ever gets
the feet o' his mind in the land o' No-
where—better luck to them!'
"'Where is it?' says I.
"'Up above the earth where the
great God keeps His fiddle,' says he,
''What fiddle?' says I.
"'The fiddle o' silence,' says he.
'Sure, I'm playin' it now. It has long
strings o' gold that reach 'way out
across the land o' Nowhere—ye call
'Em stars, The winds and the birds
play on it. Sure, the birds are my
hens.'
'He clapped his little hands and
down came a robin and sat besido
him. Nobody rumpled up the feath-
ers on.her back and she queed like
she was gin' to peck me—the hussy!
''She's my watch hen,' says ' No-
body. 'Guards the house and lays
eggs for me—the darlin'! Sure, I've
a wonderful farm up here in the air
—millions o' acres, and the flowers
and the tops o' the trees and the gold
mines o' the sky are in it. The flowers
are my cattle and the bees are my
hired men. Do ye see 'em milkin'
this big herd o' apple -blossoms? My
hired men curry their milk away to
the hollow trees and churn it into
11ney. There's towers and towers of
in the land o' Nowhere. If it
si asn't for Nowhere your counti y
would be as dark as a pocket and as
dry as dust—sure it would. Some-
where must be next to Nowhere—or
it wouldn't be anywhere, I'm thinkin'
All the light and rain and beauty o'
the world come out o' Nowhere—don't
they? We have the widest ocean up
here with wonderful ships. I call it
God's ferry. Ye see, Nowhere is not
to be looked down upon just because
ye don't find it in Mary's geography.
There's lots o' things ye don't know,
man. I'm one o' them. What do ye
think o' me?'
"'Sure, I like ye,' says I.
"'Lucky man!" says he. 'Every-
body must learn to like me an' play
with inc as the children do. I can
get along with the little folks, but it's
hard to teach men how to play with
me—God pity them! They forget
how to believe. I am the guide to
paradise and unless ye. become as a
little child I can not lead ye.'
"He ran to the edge o' the tree
roof and took hold o' the end of a
long rope en' down in
the air. In a jiffy he swung clear o'
the tree and climbed, hand over hand.
until he had one awa-a-a-a-y out o'
sight in the sky."
thickened. As I returned to my seat
hy the stove I cmald dimly see her
form against the het of the window.
We sat in silence fel' a little while,
Aunt Deel broke it hy singing in
a low tone as she rocked:—
"My days are passing swiftly by
And I—a pilgrim stranger—
Would not detain them as they fly,
These days of toil and danger."
Uncle Peabody rose and got a
candle and lighted it at•the hearth.
"Wal, Bart, well do the chores, an'
then I warn ye that we're goin' to
have some fun," he said as he got his
lantern. "There's goin' to be some
01' Sledge played here this evening
an' I wouldn't wonder if Kate could
beat us all.",
I held the lantern while Uncle Pea-
body fed the sheep and the two cows
and milked—a slight chore these win-
ter days.
"There's nothing so 'cold on earth
as a fork stale 00 a winter night," he
remarked as he was pitching the hay,
"Wish I'd brought my mittens."
"You and I 81'0 to go oft' to bed
purty early," he said as we were go-
ing back to the house. "Yer Aunt
Deel wants to see Kate alone and git
her to talk if she can,"
Kate played with us, smiling now
and then at my uncle's merry ways
and words, but never speaking. It
was poor fun, for the cards seemed
to take her away from us into other
scenes so that she had to be reminded
of her turn to play.
"I dunno but she'll swing back into
this world ag'in," said uncle Peabody
when we had gone up to our little
room. "I goes, all she needs is to
be treated like a human bin'. Yer .
and we were all surprised at her
good manners.
Uncle Jabez — a member of the
white church—prayed for a moment
as we sat with bowed heads. I have
never forgotten his simple eloquence
as he prayed for the poor and for a big lounge in a corner of their front
him who was sitting in the shadow room with the children about him.
The dusk was falling.
"Welcome, my laddie buck!" he ex-
amen) and for our forgiveness. claimed as I entered. "We're telling
We jested and laughed and drank stories o' the old year an' you're just
cider and reviewed the year's history 10 time for the last o' them. Sit
and ate as only they may eat who
have hig bones and muscles and the
vitality of oxen. I never taste the
flavor ofsage and currant jelly or
hear a hearty laugh without think-
ing of those holiday dinners in the
old log house on Rattle -road.
CHAPTER XIII
The Thing and Other Things. !
1 returned to Mr. Hacket's houso
late in the afternoon of New Year's
day. The schoolmaster was lying on
of death (I knew that he referred to
Amos Grimshaw a n d whispered
&Imp Night and Morning.
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the big boys went with us down to
"Couldn't anybody do that?" said
little John.
"I didn't say they could—did I? ye
unbeliever!" said the schoolmaster as
he rose and led us in to the supper
table, "I said Nobody did it."
We got him to tell this little tale
over and over again in the days that
followed, and many times since then
that impersonal and mysterious guide
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Bey that, and while 1 w
be felled me with a s ng b�w OA
my 11050.
'Alt, my lad—there's the heat
thingI have sgen ye • do—get up an'
come back with no mad in ye," he
said as he gave me his hand. •
One day the schoolmaster caged
the older boys to the front seats iu
his room and I among them.
"Now, boys, I'm going to ask ye
what ye want to do in •the world,' he.
said. "Don't be afraid to tell me
what ye may never have told before
and I'll do what I can to help ye."
He asked each one to make con -
Cessions and a most remarkable ex-
hibit of young ambition was the re-
sult. I remember that most of us
wanted to be statesmen—a fact due
probably to the shining example of
Silas Wright. Then he said that on
a' certain evening he would try "to
show us the way over the mountains."
For some months I had been study-
ing a book just published, entitled,
Stenographic Sound -Hand and had
learned its alphabet and practised the
use of it. That evening I took down
the remarks of Mr. Hacket in sound -
hand. •
The academy chapel was crowded
with the older boys and girls and the
tewnfolk. The master never clipped
his words in school as he was wont
to do when talking familiarly with
the children.
"Since the leaves fell our little
village had occupied the center of
the stage before an audience of mil-
Li6ns in the great theater of congress.
Our leading citizen—the chief actor
—has been crowned with immortal
fame. We who watched the play were
thrilled by the query: Will Uncle
Sam yield to temptation or cling to
honor? He has chosen the latter
course and we may still hear the ap-
p!ause in distant galleries beyond the
sea. He has decided that the public
revenues must be paid in honest mon-
ey.
"My friend and classmate, George
Bancroft, the historian, has written
this letter to me out of a full heart:
"'Your fellow townsman, Silas
Wright, is now the largest figure in
Washington. We were all worried
by the resolution of Henry Clay until
it began to crumble under the irresist-
ible attack of Mr. Wright. On the
lath he submitted a report upon it
which for.lucid and accurate state-
nents presented in the most unpre-
tending manner, won universal ad-
miration and will beremembered a-
like for its intrinsic excellence and
for having achieved one pf the most
memorable victories ever gained in
the United States Senate. After a.
long debate Clay himself, compelled
by the irresistible force of argument
in the report of Mr. Wright, was
obliged to retire from his position,
his resolution having been rejected
by a vote of 44 to 1.'"
With what pride and joy I heard
of this great thing that rny friend
had accomplished! The schoolmaster
werit on:
"It is a very good and proper thing
my boys, that you should be inspired
by the example of the great man,
whose home is here among us and
whose beloved face is as familiar as
my own, to try your talents in the
service of the state. There are cer-
tain things that I would have you
remember.
"First—Know your subject --inside
and outside and round about and
from beginning to end.
"Second—Know the opinions of
wise men and your own regarding it.
"Third—Be modest in the use of
your own opinions and above all be
honest.
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thing you stand for that' Pr,
ant.
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subject to the fore gild himself •
the backgrormd.
"It wag in Ind that ha adtlress •
the Senate regarding the deposits .gpi,A
public money. He rose to voice iiteS':
wishes of the people of this statgt.;!.,
If he had seemed to be expressisog'
hie own opinions; he would have talette:?•,;,,
ed his great point. Now mark hole' 11
he cast himself aside when he began; n'
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must not be understood as, fer,'
one moment, entertaining the „
impression that opinions and via'"I
pronounced by rile, here or elsewhe*
will acquire any importance because
they are my opinions and views.
know well, sir, that my name carrion
not with it authority anywhere, but r, • •
know, also that so far as I may en-
tertain and shall express opinione
which are, or which shall be found,
in accord with the enlightened public --
opinion of this country, so far they
will be sustained and no further.
"Then by overwhelming proof he
set forth the opinion of our people ou
the subject in hand. Studiously the
Senator bas hidden himself in his
task and avoided in every possible
way attracting attention from his
purposes to his personality.
"Invitations to accept public din-
ners as a compliment to himself have
received from him this kind of reply:
"'A proper attention to the duties,
on the discharge of which you so
kindly desire to compliment me re-
quires that I should decline your in-
vitation,'"
All this was new to me, although
much more was said touching his love
for simple folk regarding which I
needed no instruction. Altogether, it
helped me to feel the deep foundations
on which my friends, the Senator,
had been building in his public life.
Going out with the crowd that
evening, I met Sally and Mr. and Mrs.
Dunkelberg. The latter did not speak
to me and when I asked Sally if I
could walk home with her she answer-
ed curtly, "No, thank you."
(Continued next week.)
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her appearance and com-
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