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CHRISTMAS OF
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The evening of Christmas day, Ill tile
to the chair to Bteat 111111401f. silo
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,tvar of our Loril one thousalui so -veil
looked at him )taught I,y. This must
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- bundred and ninety-three. A bleak wid
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be some other belated traveller who had
8()Ugljt shelter also at that ptirtioular
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bitter ovening, AvIth gotd English to
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11,11, Site awirlered. him coldly enough.
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iug round about ter lineasile. "I should
goligm-tulating themselvea that they
, iThere is notIllog yort call (to for mo-
Pear are the solln(LS. of t1le Christinag chimes
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tl Uk you," silo replied. "I Will suninion
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out Ili the gloom, And amid tile whito
tile landlord J
::Tile landlora?" lie 8tillinnered.
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wastes of snow-covered contryside, a
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yes; I ailt cold and hungr)!; I Avant
Sho dreaded $011IR out ugain ill
that Strange country, into the darknessi
heavy coacb, laboring and swa dng along,
a lucal",
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tile Kentish rQatIs oil tit-. way to Loll.
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Ile lurched toward bor-bo even
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waved the pistol at, lier for a moment,
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That particular voitch, had had a hard
but alto did not Arink, 11 Do you
said, humbly. "You Shall at i0iIa,t refit
hero until volt carriage can be sent for.,
fight for it all the way from Davor.
kilow," lie asked -ado ),Oil uu4orstaud
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The insitles had been pesilsh and gruiu
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lilling and fretful; the outsides a little
know that mail .drink &lid gamble. thcIr
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Its flood through tile rice -fields. wide;
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drunk And quarrelsome, by reason of
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lives Away bero, at all hours? Do you
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much "keeping out of tho 61d" at Way-
know that Death awaits expectant At
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stile hills. Then, finally had come tbat
the door, to final) lip one of us?,,
$I ,just
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- You lighted upoti a drunken, worthless
sAdeu frightened leap' on the part of
There was Something so tragiq and
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1_ Itp -.","the loaders -the plunge down R bank
Into it field below the roa4-antll the up.-
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so menacing in Lis manner, despite
the gaiety of his th-ess, that alto drew
tile fire, I ]lad I ' n mind one obj.eet.-I
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set Of tit,- coach into a drift. Amid
back, frightened. But only for it tile -
But the bells shall join in a joyolls chime 1
much scroambigg gild Swaying and pluiig
inout; her Own desporate need assert-
heart filled With compassion. Ile raised
ing, of the horses, the frightened passon-
ed itself, und she faced blin a little con-
.again
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gers had been got, out, anti now stood
temptupusI7,
"Had you come ,a moment later, yet,
Ili a little forlorn group about the cow,li,
Cirri your eountry, when one collies
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No one Was hurt, but they had to face
to, ail Iiiii, one. does not.' expect to be In -
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gratitude, at least, I owo you,, for
Staying my hand,,, Ile bowed to her,
the, fact that oil Christmas night they
sulted-orl'--slie glano,4 at the pistol
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were miles from anywhere, and that
he held- Ior threatened."
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sm n hope of assist-
He filing the Weapon onto a table,
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11 With one passenger only ti this SbOrY
and laughed grimly, "Your -pardon' 11
lie said, 1180 . this is an inti, is It P,
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intimately concerned, and that passeu-
17ruo; I had forgotten." He laughed
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ger a woman. During the past few days
Oi5terously, and ,suddenly strode to -
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Ilia life of Dorothy Voutier had seemed
to be a dream of hurry and horror. The
wards
you shall be weil sarvedill
pu4 -into Words. Some of ilie mothers, think Of J-11tit. childhood relpards as pre
Who read this page have dres9ek]. it half- Mous. and Avv Imckedour bonxes antl volt
dream !lad begun in Paria-Faris that
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Site stood there by the great fire,
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ran red with blood of men anti WO-
'anxiously watching the door through
of a poor Italian laborer, or foro the child-beart its our own little )ones have
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little colored girl whose mother takes Ili Childboaa Around the globe has tile sum
nicu--l'Arls that ]Ind swallowed up, ill
which lie bad disappeared, and -,Von-
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the hungry j%Avs of its guillotine, her
. father. Thereaf ter, a hurried flight WILit
dering a, little What was to happen.
9.1ord was a sudden cessation of the
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h out of the pountry;
noise Ili ilia furtAor rooin; tlion"a, great
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Arith. delays Oil the road, and suspicious
faces to watch them here, there And
shout of laugh I ter; a moment or tivo
later a Strange procession entered the
overywhere. A horrible passag6 aeroas
the Channel; a landing Ili friendly I
room in Which alto stood.
First
TO "10 tile Xaiscl! at Christmas, writes Wolf Von Sellierbrand,
land. And there a fresh disa, e-; !""
came all elderly man, In a
sUit of black, and widi -what appear,
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cause her grief-stricken mother it, IV-
oil up the struggle Ili all Obscu i 11 311.
ed to be it luistily improvised apron
about 'Ids waist -or perhaps it Would
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Dover and bed died Ili her d
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be better to stay where his waist
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should have been. Following Jilm
came a couple of young men, with
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4 I - ivas almost exhausted; and then had
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their coats off, bea . ring, %ilvor dishes
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determined to go to London. Every-
holding food; last of all,, the mail oaio
ha'd sat Avitli the pistol across his, ,
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thing was possiblel even then, in Lon-
don; and silo might find friends. Slip
knees. Ili the doorway, after they had
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took a seat in the coach -paying for it
entered, eager, grinning faces -all of
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. with almost the last of her money -and
set out,
men.
The stout, elderly nian advanced to
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Wilk down which the coach had plunged
the table With inally obsequious bows
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ill her direction; lie Spread a clotli. at
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and looked about her. Below, feebly ht
one enT of the table, and the younger
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by it lamp carried by the guard, Was
the scene of disaster, Avitli. her fellow-
inen set the dishes upon it. Wine Was
brought and poured out for her; dia-
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I passengers grouped about; from where
trustfully enough, and yet with a car -
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. she stood she could Joel,- out over the
tain proud self-reliance , she seated
. snow-covered landscape a desolate
herself ,,it the trz-ble. This %via a
Simeon 'Walked over to tile wall, Find
taking,
enough prospect. She Was turning again,
strange inn, she thought, but tile fire
110 mail may wcirk--unloss he be a
as though to rejoin the others, When
was bright, and the food Was cr od, and
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the balf-drunken chorus of a song float,
ed lip to her from below, and held her
the wine Avarming.
The mail had drawil itway from. bar
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. back. TWO or three soldiers on'leave,
as she seated herself at the table, she
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had an uncomfortable feeling that they
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. coach, were (lancing about in the snow,.
Avere hovering about behind her, and
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shouting and singing, and making the
watching. She ate but little, and sip -
best of a ,bad busilipss. .
ped her witte occasionally, ,silo bad an
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Wily, should she go down there, alto
alort eye an dear for anything that
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might happen, And presently that
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should silo continue her journey? Lon -
alert eye and ear for anything that
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don lina nothing to offer her, any more
men were drit-wing nearer, and Were
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than any other place, she had lost all
watching her. She looked lip frolm list
]ter dearest :and ber best, and wanted
meal, to see a dozen heads cranod for-
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only, oil that desolate Christmas night,
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ward; and the face 6n. cach head was
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to bide herself. Above all, the thought
grinning insolently.
that she might have to -wait in the snow
She rose to her feet, she faced. thein
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there, peOiaps for hours, until assistance
a little falterinaly, Ill Avant no ser -
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came, made her shrink away. Scarcely
vanta here,)) sh said; "I will ring if I
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!J knowing what she (lid, she turned Off
require anything."
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aloiig the Toad, dra'%ving the hood of her
cloak about her head and. Wandered
There Was a shout of laughter Ili re -
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away. Thinking deeply of till that ),ad
ply. , One man stepped forward, and
caught up the glazs she had but half
The method which Christ eqtpi,) ,s to
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tj lipge.n,e,d, and Seeing Av7rself, as she
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I'll marked out for disaster as
ora piled, and drained it, lie spluttered
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-surely as.tbo mail Who had died by the
out something about sweet III* having
touched the glass and Sweetened the
guillotine, and tile Woman who had
!;lreathod her last in that inn Ili Dover,
.vvine. Others pressed boadly - forward
to sj are at ber. Dimly roAliting the
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I she was careless what became of her,
the night might swallow lier , as that
mistako Anadc)'thc- drow ba,ok
towards the fire, otlfd16pked About in
- nation lit the experiences Of nisil, Lbrif.t-
Ina$ ,once an everft ,bespeaks.,art ever
deeper Night had swallowed those she
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a frightened, fashion, -41l.' searoh for a
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friendly face;- Sli4 a*nono in all the
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.Simeon took down two other wretched
chromos, And from behind them he took
the natural healthy sensations
flushed faces, before-Aicil.
Ili places in his room.
it was not all -gold, for some of it
oililuy
.tiger and cold brought ]ter pre-
1`03ad! Arhat-good fat!6'8ent her hero
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sontly to herself. and showed ]lei, that
to -night?", lituglied one nian, lurelling
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. alto was lost. She had Wandered into
toward hov "Don't look starbiod, el ,il,l
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a by -road, AvIlich sloped down -hill be-
you're in the merriest house In. tbe;
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tween tho. bare, rustlitiog branches of
three kinFdouis, and shall dance.tliliq
bruth aifd will gradually troals
form all 4aar W.y I-elations. ,
tvees; she looked about her a littie
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_gl,,t until your pretty ]lead is In it
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fearfully. E,fideavoi-itig to retrace 1wr
becanto hopeles8ly Ili-
whirl, I promise you."
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"i,A ber nionel,
I 11 ant ready," said Simeon. "Let us
more
toshols
1110 sporli tor
in his greatcoat, and then putting
out his talldw candle he undressed
VDnaghe
te ,than before, and Alt last'ga,ve.
bays,"'hiceoughod tile, mail in blac
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this We Are collod. It is our high. pri .
vilege to shire Ili it. But we joust
ill) fill hope of-fillding tile coach or ]ter
Who bad first come In. "Bright V)1e.5
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fellow4ravellers, Once she raised I,
are rare lierc and these tire them brig)lt-
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timid cry, the echo of which floated
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est l!vo aeon ill many a da.y.11 lie
and silvered his room 'and made hina
"" among ilia trees und into the
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took a feW ludicrous dancing steps to -
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depths of the Woods, And frightened ]lei -
Ward ]ter, ,Ind ]told out his arms.
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more than ilia cry itself, Setting ]lei-
"I do not know Arho you are,1P $he
feet to, a run,sho Went oil blindly,hop.
Ing that
cried, in bar high, clear voi
U iletb 116 one %erc who I,Jileo, r "but
W otec!
ed the moonlight because he got it
for nothing, but he often Wished that
alto might collie upon a cvt
. tage where she could find Shelter.
tile from this -this bully. I ,I
as 'lot,
ing I have
know what manner of man He is, that
Ele who, spaka not as the scribes, but
And So it liappenod'that she C1111111%
of any of you; blundf--red
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to 11 great iron gato Swill i
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upon. this placel believing it to be ail
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beyond that gate, at
(t 0 the end of
AvIiat appeare C be it, short road, wa.s
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Another shout of laughter greeted
visits really believe Ili hitu? I am afraid
4 house, With lights gleamin g from
the loWbr -windows; lit the darknois
the words, and the mail Ili blaek out
it fresh eaper before her.
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$Ito could not clearly make Out ilia
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"If I buys made a mistake, I pray
you let 1110 go; I $tin les's alrald of the
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she jud:t'51! be an inn,
night And ilia darkness than of you 11
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and counted herself fortunate 11-1 I,!(,,,-
She saw the evil, balf-drunken, g in.
ning, faces pressing 'Closer to her; for
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ing lighted upon it. She found her
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, to tile Prili'01PAT door) dIld After
a 33101lient alto @Ostd ]ter oyoA and
Swayed a little against the wall be-
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film ling for a moment or two Nvl,,Il till,
look, Opened Went in.
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hind her, '1711,011, cle r and sharp,
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Silo found f!"ra"1111111in a great square
across the room, stunded the. voite of
the nian she had first soon in that place.
hall, dimly lighted, And with a Stair.
"Stolif StanA away --All of yorill,
and has fetidly supposed that Lis coin.
case running up at one side. V Tom
'Aero was ail aniazed glience then
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m nd, tile door of
WhIch WAS PattitillY Open, alit, board
murmurs and expostul ,Itjolia all"L
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laughter. Opening her eyes, Dol-otby
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Voutior ,,,aw the group fiflling back
that which lie had saved all these tears.
Itoo
Lillgilig Of Inell- Clearly this was all
from lier; a4AV also at 1% few paces dis-
filli, site thought; if sha could only
discover
tant the 111.111 watching Qorll, with that
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our littleness,, our mi'lifirity, out, Bug
picioll 011,6'of another. Help its to kn; ,
a rooln Ili which site could
evil-lookinj pistol grippod firm In Ills
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"Cst, find In With']) Soma refreshment
inigbi; be served to beir. Silo opened a
door furthest from tbat
riglib ban , and held against his leg.
I 'Come, Ilarry - don't spo,11 P-portill
the 1114,01,
many happy children dreaming of the
morrow. What a pity that the Saint
through whit, -b
exclaimed one of mon, )Ilv
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the Sleigh to rest on the southerly slant,
the liolso of the men s voice,, could be
Pfttt, I -Pa lips have a fascination
boran
and b thait this, eVenting the Chri.it-
heard, and passed into it rooni . .X fire
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never could Withstand."
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burned. brightly C.", the broad hearib,
41Tbuoh hot- and you tolleh dtatlit"
]light. still, iong before the night was
anti the Appeared to be Untonant,ld.
M-ebtimcd file Other, ill a Clear level
That is the usual practice oil slanting
Ilace
With a Ittle glad. sigh tit Sight of the
Voice. 64,10poing at 11in quickly, Daro.
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ilAM65, the throw bAfk )ter hood, and
thy saw that hisfixistol was lovelled-
Advanced to tile hearth,
straight at the Ile of t1le malt NvIlo
OnlY than did, site discover that tile
bad, spoken, The fellow dropped back
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rootil 11:14 A tenant, after all. )"N'lily
a Couple of pikees, And pub lip a pro.
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bk Il dp ill, beforo tba'fjr'o '
testing hand; the pistol followed iliul,
lvas a young luaii,, lichly dressed in
110ome, lTarrT - & jok6q it joko," paid
made hundreds of children happy by his
tile fabbion of tile' time, but with Ilia
hAir disordered, And his eyes beavy 11you
tl'P Inan, Aulki Y. "Wit started it All,, I
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brought va it) here to wait Upon
less instanees: hub the house in which
Simeon lived ]lad ail ample chimney, anti
Pind bloodshot. ' -'lw had scarcely )lad
'111110 to J10tica him, And to draw baelk
tile wendi-11
"Now- beingo mAster hero --T tn(i it '
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III Mollie alarm, when alto observe d
that across Ili,; knees, anti grasped in
all," sai(l the other, quickly. 11(4eL you
ne--every 0110 of ,you-, hide your
&0runk-en
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, t one hand, was a beavy pistol,
bea4i where you ivill-:but
got you golitill,
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For a mol-amlit lie looked, at hot,
49 lie hilght have looked out of those
' They drew toget.bor - ri littio altlletl
inurinuring orowd - And looked f '
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lustreleNs tyes at memo figure Ill $I
dream, tholl he Sprang to Ilia feet,
one to all6ther.
The mail and 14m girl stood still,
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tonocaling. 1:110 pistol behind him$ And I
bowed Nvith elaborate courtesy.
Avatelling each other. the murinutirg
1,N 'Our ;(,rvdilt! I Av011ltl Allvd
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grouli drew Away, gild gob to the door;
broke Ill) there, with laughter and
'fit all comes back to me now. That
burglar in tile fancy ball costuino. must
Olt world it) kniow wlv ro volt (,ame from
poluse, jostm - slid went 011L u(INIV. A111
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.. tree alreadv pretty well loadt. I Avitil
gifts. Well, !Ill give them sonic things
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, Nit 11110 dou%it,f lnatf,i What Can I
the door OoRell bultitia tbe In , , t of 'Choin,
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Ito for VolVe NIV, Twill - , 11111o'l -.(
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it, 14 for
ille malt Isla tile pi -dol on the ftb!v.
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anti 13(ftfl beforo tile girl---mbrunprAreA.
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Ife "Spuke ' .'.Inlewlwt ihi4l v; Ili,, lit-fil
and with it 6trarge qu14 uptin him,
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"I asl you pardon, Ruidalu." lie boxan'.
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"I dill not Illeall that they alloula hirlu
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.volt. I was rovklessl I .did not Under.
stand that t1w jest lulght huri; you.
Won't
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C"RISTMAS CHIMES
you reanule Your meal?"
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"I walit 110thillf lieral" 41to said, look-
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iug round about ter lineasile. "I should
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uh ollter hore, but that.
Pear are the solln(LS. of t1le Christinag chimes
M_ to my carriago b44 broken 4owli,ll
11051t4t0d a little Over the W.9rd,
'Ili the larid of the Mod towers,
but silo knew $lie )))list not tell him
And they Weh-011le the dearest of fpstival tifues
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that silo Was poor And friendic4s; she
In this. Westeril world of ours!
must make tile beat case for herself She
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Sho dreaded $011IR out ugain ill
that Strange country, into the darknessi
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Brigrilt, oil the holly and wistletoo bough
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but it must be done. Ili all tile wide
. 1,41gli.01 firelight falls,
- Awl bright tile
world there seemed 0a this Christmas
are. wreatbed evergreens iiow,
Itight no living $out to whow She
, Tilat giaa(iou our owil hoine. Ivalls.
eouhl turn for hall) or protection. :
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"Xadalll I bave not fallen so low
that I ca let you go like this," he
. , , " They tire ringilig to.111ght through tile NGI,Nvay f,lr,9,
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said, humbly. "You Shall at i0iIa,t refit
hero until volt carriage can be sent for.,
across the Slyedish fells'
And the Cuban palm-treo dreamily stirs
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volt need har lio harm froin Anyone."
To the sound of those Christmas bells!
Ile glAlleed significantly at the pistol
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on the table as he Rpoke. I
I'Dou you always go 41-med V alto.
They rlug iftere the Indian Ganges rolls
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asked, a little, scornfully,. "What .4 o
Its flood through tile rice -fields. wide;
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you fear, that you carry a weapon
They swell the far llym" of the Laps and Poles,
Always?" .
To the praise of the Crucified.
Ira laughed a little Whimsically, and
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took lip tile pistol and IQQkQa. ,At - it, -
"Wholl you camo ill now", he 8 aid,
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The years. coine not back. that have eireled away .
$I ,just
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- You lighted upoti a drunken, worthless
With tile Past of tile .'rl,astern land,
gambler, with 110 hope in life -no special
When 1-10 pluaRed the corn oil tile Sabbath day I
reason foil livbig As I sqb here before
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And bealed ,the withered hand;
tile fire, I ]lad I ' n mind one obj.eet.-I
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tiquity, and is undoubtedly of pagan ori.
was about to blow out lily 4-i-Alils.11
So hopeless waa his tone, that sllc in.
But the bells shall join in a joyolls chime 1
Voluntarily started towards him, her
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heart filled With compassion. Ile raised
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a )land to. Stop. ]lei,, 'atid went oil again.
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I 'hrist t
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tile Uille toile.
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"Had you come ,a moment later, yet,
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might have found that I )lad plucked
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up courage to do the thing., So much
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gratitude, at least, I owo you,, for
Staying my hand,,, Ile bowed to her,
The Broad App I of The Christmas Tree.
but there -,yes no. irony in, his manner
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whom the good things of life ' at
and done with; you see me au!,rouniftetl
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with gamblers and drunkards who are
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I to tile 110111c, -but 418 -%'Veil to tile ell an iv spirit of love .and beipfuli,tv,
0 lurch .UindaY School," says I tbat inakes us realize tbut It
If 'and 8 ftr, umallit
my fit companions ) . .
"I do not, see them," site replied,
arat E', Sangster, ill ilic Wortiall'.4 I-Itime belinigs to a comition. brotherhood.
N"nipanion
steadily, "They,are gone.11
"You
for Decentbon "Thousands "INTO1111's ago,' some of us retuembore
War(I to Chrishilas .Uive and the CbrISt- there woulil be Uiristmas trees in ill
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I aye banished. them," lie said,
"That should be a good Oman, At
,nifta elleer In their toutillient hOlUes, PlIMI)pilles, in Clibla, Ili .'orca, or i
whose life is haa-4 And AAro early have to our Own. frontier lands Pa,cif 1
least," sho responded, lightly. "Now-
you will let me go oil lily way.11 , I
-he
Avork beyoud their stlength, i . ook for- Coast. if we. ienlejiber( .,.fO go
0 . od put
"Stay," lie said, as she niade towards ,
the "Yonr
ward to Christmas tree and the Christ- pose, we selected picture s
Illas tree With -it longing tile), Could -not, siliall garments, dolls, whatever we coult
door. CRI-riago e6ill be
fetched, or -another shall be ,provided,
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pu4 -into Words. Some of ilie mothers, think Of J-11tit. childhood relpards as pre
Who read this page have dres9ek]. it half- Mous. and Avv Imckedour bonxes antl volt
I if you insist upon depdrUng." .
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11 have no carriage,l site said, lowering
"I
dozen dolls for their own darlings; thein a,, freight by railroad (Ind steaul
have they dressed. one for a mission Ship for the TiLtIc brown children, yellp
her eyes. was Oil lily Way to Londo;
the Dover coach; it broke down."
school' or a settleIllent, or the daughter children and red children who ha e th,
.by
"To London? Have you -friends
of a poor Italian laborer, or foro the child-beart its our own little )ones have
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little colored girl whose mother takes Ili Childboaa Around the globe has tile sum
there t" '
"Not a friend in all the world", she
\ vashing? Til"Oo ,children should not, to delight in the Christmas tree."
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said, her eyes filling with tears for the I -
moment, as she looked at the fire. . .e
"I think I might almost siy that, .Fib& 1.0 I
too" lie replied, bitterly, "Bub don't you I rIA .
see that you must remain here, for to- .. 11 it
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night at least ---'l - . - i7 pe., I
' Xo-no-tbab is impossiblel" ,site 11 JA 1 . & .
cried, I quickly. 511 must . go oil my . . . 1 34-
way., - ,
"Who are you?" lie asked. "I think V I ,. .. J
1.
I have the r1ilit-to know; you'vosayed - .. .. I - X\ f ,
we from death to -night, on iny word it's . . I d
true," I I - .
"I am Dorothy VaIttier," she replied, - . I
'Illy fri,ther-a French arlstocriut--has I - - ,
died on the guillotine, I left my mother I
Ili -the quiet grave of all old church At I
Dover. She war, ail Englishwoman." 1 - X %114g:6 *l&&W, 11 I . V
"You have suffered much," lie said.. "I I I I
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am sorry.. I am Sir Harry Melvin -at , : . 1
your seryiee. This place is Ifelvin liall .
- .Gnce respected throughout the * county - -1 I -1 I 1.
-now a thing for pointing fingers "and I 11 I - . .
a), , heads." .. .
141111111TImay change all'that,' . I she said, I . - - . I
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with. a little quick laugh. "Since you, . I I . I
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say that I have mved. you frobi death - 11 __ I .
to -night I bav .at lcaat tile clahn'to-do . .. I . . I
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with you as I Will now. Some kind of , Ir , N . %.
.
fate may have fluligine in here, out of I . .1
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the World outside -and for a purik,se. - - % . .
Meanwhile, sir' -sho dropped him s'lit- % -\ . \
tle curtsey----- 'l am still hungry. Since I
you insist on keeping me prisoner here k I a
-you Will at least not starve-ine, I \
holie." . - 11
"Xo, indeed,," lie laughed,- And for the _
first time there was something natural I . . . -
anti almost, boyish Ili tile laugh. He .1
gave a tug at a bell rope liedr ,to'his . I
hand; a moment or two- later altright- - .
cnK-1,661dfig, p1derly,moman cime filto I
the_'.roo;hi, and :stood watching him. 'tund Christmas Chronology,
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gialloing oce"Wolially at the girl,. I
' "Dame ,Sosset)` Uid .$ir'Harm. "I ."... .
give this lady into your charge. See
that she i,l wall 66re(l for-, set the,aer-,
,Ajid
Cortain legends and sto-rics finger
0
the iii-gredients th,- p1trin pudding -is
,
vants stirrin I,
.1 "and have a proper meq
about ChristiouS cerevionics alit [ cus-
typical f the gifts of the wise men,
'a
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set oilt bore at,owb, . .
'tirls'balits se son
LOWS MAI the 0 .1 is so
li ut at any rate, It is in 14,
'n.-Tand that
"Am I to dine alone?" k
nvolved in fa,ble, that it is difficult- to
blic disli most, I I , I t
f OUTISJ cS. ]Pyal he
Ill a IONY tone, . I .
Separate the facts frout. tradition, but
Vrenolt eanuoi, excel the Eliglish )tore,
.
If Lk
I meal for two," lie said to .the. old
it is Interesting to Tead of the -antiquity
and t1to Story is that whon 11eilry IV,
woman, Willi the. gliost bf a smile flit.
of moSt of ,our ellStolnSl w1itcs (h-th-
AvlslWd to Witertaill a disbingaishod
ting lt ross Ilia fe,04 - I
erine Louise 8mith, in the 11-itt*, urrr
ambassador, -he obtained with .much
I 814o they dined lit proper fashOli 1, and
Givette. Christinor, books, for fi
I-
trouble the recipe for a plu-m pudding,
tlj,,y talked of wany things. oilcc, or
etalice, are 80 C0111111,011 We think we
,
'file king gave fiAiluto directions to tile
tAvice Clio door was enittiotisly7,oliened;
and a startled face looked irt-tho late
have ahvilys, bad. five".), yot not until
1750 was the first ChristIlla-i 'book isallexi
c,Ook, A d Only forgot one thilIg-CAle
clotli, As a cellmlitence, -the padding
of one of those who had moeked:at!bet
front a pablisbing, bou."o in bondoll.
turned out a 14ilure of tile consistency
before'. But Dorothy's back was.turnea
, 'botigh New ar's ca,rds are anotent,
of soup, and the dis-uFA-ed iturbassador
to tile .door, aud the Swift balwot the
till b k to the thne of the )- ,outalls,
was -obliged to partaN of it Avith-every
man who faced her Was only ue4esaary
Wien )oets wrote couplets and mottoes
indioat0a of enjoyment, because the
upon. th' -butt of the pistol to Temind
t "a aw bonbons, the first (Xi,rjst-
king (li-dered it.
any intruder that lie need not ventuie
mas card was not i,)sued until 184G, aild
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Ev nnn the origin of the haughty mitice
Ili, When, n4dar.1nidnight, lie handed her
I I 000 copies Avas *tionsid,ered a larme cir-
ple is involved in fable. It Is Supposed
himself lip the great staireiase,-Aud left
calation. Oil tile ot'll,fir lialvd, thet';iving
"
to be of, Eastern origin, but it was the
her ill charge of Dame Jossefit, the
of Christmas Presents dates ]back to &a-
cristom to make mince Eta wall as other
pausca for P, nioniont together,hartil, In.
tiquity, and is undoubtedly of pagan ori.
* oblong in Shape, represent ing in
hand, to )!Steil to tile sound 6 f the
gin, thoup,li, the priests instituted the
R"It3t 111111111er the mang-or ill which bite
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Christmas bells far Away. I- . . .
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eastern of giving 011,48-truns boxes, a core-
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111fant, Jesus was found. Atiri h
,l; t; is
"A now Christmas for you)" she *his-
11301ty from Which 'Boxing Day in Eng-
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tile rutritans made a vigOTO, is outcry.
pored.
haid. takes its niano,
but the attempt to prohibit it fly
"PraY heaven it may bell' lie murmur.
.
Antong tyc foods peculiar to 01trist.
niftdo people mare desirous to con'ol
stf. -e
ad, earnestly, .
111118 1110110 115 to 00111111011 its philli pad-
it. Good Solin Banyan even Avent so
*1
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dNg. The'date of the introduction iof
fU as to refuse it when. he Was starv-
If, by any chanciii, you Should go to
this fav*rlbe dish. Is rolegatod to the
ilig, Nut lit the struggle for supronllltcy,
isfelvin Hall At [Lily time, you will find
dim past, but it is probable it is not
ni'llco ple conquered, U4 the dollololis
her portrait smiling down vpori you from
older than the eighteenth century, tinti
dir'fli has conie down to Us Stripped of
the Wall,'among the portrafts of other
it Appears to I Aro beell. "tile dish of
Any mystic weaning save that, affordod
dead and gone. Melvins. And you will
Ilitn6ver." Searchers for the symbolic
by the acuto attaeks of Indigestion fol -
hear all she did for file old 'place, and
Say thal; oil aceount of tile ri I o
ell less f
to win t fie,
g a it,
for Clio malt who" life She mad4 a litt-
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ter and A Sweeter thing. Sir Ilarry nev
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or niado it secret about it, be was,glad
always to remember that Christmas
A / 0
Christmas W14i the it di 15P
night oil whict, silo had. drifted fir to
Christmas fitfuldis is too stupowwas to
be lightly passed by Or ignored, A Iv as
e r
IIIIII out of tile darkness, and Saved 11hri
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and Ilia house. .
]'I'll to do as the other willed,
- Santa (,'falls a tood on tile licartlistone,
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TO "10 tile Xaiscl! at Christmas, writes Wolf Von Sellierbrand,
Sarfta Cistus' Post-Offidd.
ill LiPpincOtton (DO00mber), is to
see a nian jtbo his $]led all tile
Hero's (11ristmas coining round agabil.
PvOtelltions of a demigod; one
Avlw has stepped clown from his
I vVish it -'Vere,hat Year, . I
pedestal to become 0, good Plain burgher, olvorflowing With -t e
h
1( hils,o t1lon Ave lived Mt 91`11,1111111als,
milk of hilinall-kilidness. "E'Very Christmas Eive, ifilsk
now we're living hare,
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whell carly
.
.n
We used to wriN to Santa what '.
TO Uring its In bif; pa4k,
And, then weld. throw the note wd.y 111)
The chbiracy bigiand. black.
I'd aqv, "PleaEo brilig, a, big now doll,%$
'
Ant _ - - . - , o"o i sled,
And r1obble a new woolly dog,
1CWust the ol(I b116 lost its. head.
Ania then on Christmas, sure plough,
Front mother or from aundo.
We got jtl.qb what W614, asIctitl for -
Bu , , we kuaw it was fto-in Santa.
But now were lit a tity house-,
All rywell And qtiftr aud iiew,
And thore, isn't tiny, fIro*c*--
])lit I know wbat I'll do -
I'll Wrih! 111 ' 1`14A6 it), 8411tit 'CIA1104,
Alid. tbon, a lit.uv lator,
I'll ilut go In and bly it
(yi tht IrAllor rudtkttirl
—117 tUrlottv 00,14mith t_1*n.
Kitt, lerEl In ft 11017110ru chille. wral)pcd in all aniple calm Wantle,
M1011Y lillattende(I and not asily I ecognisil)1e, it i,q Ills custom to
stroll through his 1),ark around the Neues Palais, where the boughs -
are ladell 11rilh leathery snow, aml then through Potsdam. Ills
Pockets Are full of gold And silver pieces. and like anotber ,8'anta
clatis lie distributes his bount.-t to the children and humbler folk
110 MeOts. NTObOdY is oVerlooked--flio men at the santry-boxes;
the 1)arlc laborers* and the white4mired gardeners in S&11,444ouei;
iM crippled voteran and the sbircly. beggar—each and eVery ow,
receives his (tole. Often lie pay.4 -,it 011-Astmas debts of courtesy
incurred during the year. To - Baron vatit Lyneker, his marshall
of tile household, lie sent a magnificent present (worth about 10,-
'000 doli.), a chest of solid silver 1)late, in recognition of the oxtra.
. and rather ventious labors that of Heial litid had to perform dur-
ing tile year 1.900, the year vlwn tile (,,roWn Prince attained his
Majority. To Dr. 7011 Ticuthold, hi!4 body physician, lie handed a
fine Rold repeater, )met in preciotiq stones and bearing tile motto
I"" , 0 ast
, illaviter it, 111040, fortitor ill re. ' ThN had rof retive to it 1)
differellea fil opillion betivell tho doetor 111141 hii, fillperial 1)afient.
In t1re rovill llotl,4011ild Illo ('11rislillil'i feiitivitit".4 itn ecilidliefed oil
all claborate se -ale. olid yet. wo are lolfl, lit tho .4man s,plrit AvIdell
makes the doy dear to the, heart of till the (4prillall peolllc "
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The ullique-Ile" of Jesua is JU X)Ut.
An ]Encounter
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gtal;dhll; thing that $1RU1104 upon U,4 A"a
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, 11pon tbo luen wb,o lookoa uppil Illat
. W 111% 0arthlY life. 'Thoy expioss, our
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tffi San lra (Nan,uso 'i
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- thought$ when thoy give littexaltno to.
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alloh wordl Ali 0(gol "Nvitat walwor of
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- Ulall I$ this thUt Oyell the Viltdil W44
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010 se& obey Ulial" "Nover wait spake
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Stranic IU4e: of%mcon 1104sick, x Amobelor Who,
14
as. thiv '))all," "lie apoikka with authority
Paid not as tho 0"Ibes,?l
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,
11" 1 'me$
Didn't 91-elleve In 04.0was.
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With Omni wt are const.ralijoa to hll .'
,
"What manner or man is Ile,r) NA,e aosU
- Vy QfAKUS 1111ATTELL
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to Understand 111111 bf the-retsutts W1
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conio ,from Ilia Ife, by the illipres,
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slon vollich Ile made uoCifa UQU44 wliQ
It W.1111,111 that. $111100n. HOrda0k 4W
MAR Would 00490 4540011 90 he Willed it,
lived abotit Illin, by tile relat
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Alt believo in $61146 Claus, I 4oubt it
ITO drOPP04 the 1`49'J'Ad two 40111) 1011
.
Ile sustained to the Antocedent history
Of.1113 le, bX tile
he had ever heard of Ili=.
face downward on tile hearth as If' they
414 '
ilm
Poo . b.
barlootly wbJQ
existed befivogpl, Iiis couscio-gsileaj ol
In Ills boyhood he ha4 lived aniong
not carq to see discomfiture Of
their kin4ly creavor,
I
flimself gild tile life which IiQ lived,
very praotiml - people who thought
"You've been robbing toy Phops,
The thing Passes our comprehension.
U takc4 440k to the
falry stories a waste'of -time, if they
where do you expect to dispose of tile
4
U4 world's first
Q11riatill" morning, alati le Ave$ its lit
were not downright omaloralt and
goodii? said siluena in Aloat bisulting
tOlIeS. I
meditation .14 4 bicuk cattle atall where
a
Santa Claus or no $arlta Clall', on
'0110stmas
,
Santa Claus laughed 48 Only Ile tan
IIQA a mother with )lei- first-born babe
Day $imeoa had been wont,
laugh.
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. bes'lap her, We gaze In Wonderment Chat
,
All the 'developlilent of Mrioti8n,
,
I to worl just as hard wa on any other
I
i -Is It robbery to take from olle's o vll
ciVill.
zatioA could date fron
, I .l. this, emit, Out,
day of, the yea,r,
No,
warehouse? %liefse tire my toysl iaa4tr
.
I)y Illy good wito gild me, wid I hope
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$Vardly plo different than, millions of
cluoll, ,),at. osswillig an inherelit power
.
* Simeon Hardaek, bachelor ,of
45, knmv .nothing of Santa Claus, a -ad
it
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to ule,ke litany children hAppy'llvith theml
What havo you done this (Iristmas to
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Which Ill IFIS, development was to fj:ans.
form tile world, -
goes without saying that Up d
. id
not care for children. either,
.
Wake your fellow men happy?,,
l6collic,
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Christmas is an event which ciiallel)ps
He hirl
, ew that all people had to be-
now, no 4ant", said Simeon,
a ,
till levelling tile tile breast
I
our attention, That whicit has gcqreod
to the WOrld bc0auS,e Of that for whie.b.
gin by being children. For Ilia part
be )lad got through the painf ul no'
pistol at of
he
t old Saint,
i
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Christmas fitfuldis is too stupowwas to
be lightly passed by Or ignored, A Iv as
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ce$Bit)r As Boon ,I, ,,posa.ible, and at
13 was just as dull ll,t ,inmionp 14co
But Santa Claus gazea full in his eye
and Slilleon felt a strange Compulsion on
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Olirist Ili the coilr4o o f nuture, or did
1-10 Come into nature. is He Ind that,
as lie was, len,. oil two
, aty, or thirty
years later.
]'I'll to do as the other willed,
- Santa (,'falls a tood on tile licartlistone,
.
which came from J -Um all evol;iion
merely, or ail e7volution be"cati$e Lf tbe
. B011old Mr, Ra-rdack preparing for
sleep oil Chrl5tmas Eve. He lived in
. and Smiled at -Sb0con, tile miser, and
*that hard inall Slowly let fall Ilia arm,
deeper fact Of an inearuxtioul
an old house downtown that Ayes
And fit ],%at laid tile pistol ell the bed,
_;
: Christmas 'Speaks of all inc 4r,laC'm of
blessed with old-fashioned fireplacos.
1 Still guing jiltent),y At him, Nanta s,tid
.
God, in the experience of' one human, We
That is, lie lived in one room in the
suggestively:
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know it u's an event, Bat oil its Inner
old house; it being given, up to lodg-
"Where is the money that you are
,
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841te it,was ail expert .
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. ience,
ors.
going. to Shower rigli
. t, and left amex
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Tit the eartbly career
I of Jesus, , Iod bas
Mr, Hardack ]lad wer Red late at
Yo u fellow men?"
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Oven us ail exhibition of the duvalop,
the office and he int6nded to go bael.
And Simeon said: "Some of it is b%.
, )"ent Of a human life, --which begilaivhell
to work, next morning bicause, this
hilld the wall paper over there,"
_ Christ "emptied Hilliself, taking. tU
being a workaday -world, the only
"Good," said Santa, Claus, "this is the
t "
8 lo in 'a' A I
Servant: being ma de in th-e-
thing to do was to -worR and amass
night you Will need it. Go and get. it?,
Y lil'yeness of m a a life of de,
.
velOP'lleut in "Ile
money, for the nAght cometh wholl
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Simeon 'Walked over to tile wall, Find
taking,
wbich gro.w in wisdorn,
110 mail may wcirk--unloss he be a
down it cheap lithograph from a
I
4 ill staturo and In, fav,or With Ceti. and
burglar. .
.
nai; be pressed on tile wail paper and it
e Iran," llbi;ibig found ill -a f"bion its a
Air. Hardack had, a well developed
broke and lot Ili* hand into a cavity,
n tuan, Re 1hurribled Hivaself, j;ifto Ii
,
c obedient, even unto deatIl, the ., "af
fear of burglars, He had never seen
0110, and how
from which he drew it, handful of silver
. .
you i c I
You maY, wonder lie
and gold and a Tell of bills.
. of tile oross,", tile dov iopmolit An,led
11, "I'll orfect life, -in, whicliMs ministry
bad jinafination e' ough to conceive
of ANliat is had noe seen; but lie had
)
"You have done wolY said Santa
Claus. "All these
,
I elow. ,,POW that Ave 1 , ook back upon ttat
often, read the accaunts f their do-
years you have'been
saving up this money thai you might
I .
- Life ib i9the Consciousness of the Chris.
t tian Church that we e. I in not say wwat
lne i, had Known men Who )lad .suf-
0
e, losses due to their depreda-
go
With I lie to -night to add to the Christ-
mas happ . of those
nless I
It, A
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IYON of nlan anti what of God. For the
v Christian oonsciousno," Jesus %,j
ti(ns, and -fie ,%vap, firmly convinced
fl.af fliere were burglars,,and 130 sure
whohl visit. I
have no nioney, and there Are many
,
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.Son
P. is'ono with God the fathl-r. And we ney.
that his open, firQplace would form .
among those I vNit who need money
more tban toys. IS it not lucky that T
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I . at, expect to know more of God tj e ii,q.
a dicr than Ave learn of Hitn: thre-agil
tin especially attractive entrance for
them that lie was always meaning to
found, yet,?,,
"Very lucky," Simeoril
.
Testis Christ the SOD. The inearru.tdon "Of
boRrd it up. I
said under the
hypllo ic influence, , . 1.
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I ,Jod Ili the experience of Jesus Uirist
I became complete in the brief sp.1ce of
But to (to so Would cost money,
and Simeon Was no spendthrift. Why,
Santa Claus looked at him searchingly
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. IRS earthly career. ;
The Incarnation iiiiiali took lilao:i Ili
he did not even utilize tile fireplace
as a good spot for a, hearth fire. A
and lie said.,
- "I suppose you know that I have three
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Jesus is In the development of the ages
to, become aotualiZed Ili the warl-1, 11 he
wood fire when lie could keep just
about as Avarni. by -wearing his Over-
other hiding places for illy m9ney.11
,I, did not know it "
, said Santa Claus,
,
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4118d011's of MIS world are to become
thia kingdoms of -Lite Lord, Christ.
coat until he ]lad finished. reading his
'evening
rubbing Ilia red cheeks delightfully, "but
it Pleases me. Only keep a I . ittle for
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The method which Christ eqtpi,) ,s to
paper? Aiid.tlien to bed with
tile overcoat taking the place of a
yourself," .
"Yes,
. ;
accomplish th3os 4neilrnation i,I; tbroii.eh
blanket. .
. . I will keep enough, but I must
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the individual. It. is to b e0onio, .in rnvi;r-
You do not know much of the
give tlie- other wsviy. When shall vle
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- nation lit the experiences Of nisil, Lbrif.t-
Ina$ ,once an everft ,bespeaks.,art ever
babits of misors 41 you have not
Wought ere this iiiat Mr. Hardack
start?"
"As soon as Tell have collected it."
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I recurring gild enlarging, exporfEmm. 11,
the strength of til, . I
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must have storeq'of gold laid away
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.Simeon took down two other wretched
chromos, And from behind them he took
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of
.Ubxist, men WIN go Inio the thorough-
Ili places in his room.
it was not all -gold, for some of it
out hundreds of dollars.
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fares .of Our modern life, and 'meeting
,vith men with modern needi, will endoiC
v. -ad silver, and some was in bills;
but there were at least four places 1 n
I" said Santa Claus. "Now we
must be going. It is a cold night. You
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vor to bring. them to this experien-ee of
Josila Chrict, As the Spirit of Christ be-
tile room that held enough to have
provided him with a warm. and cheer-
Will need to dress warmly, 1p
While Simeou wn% dressing Santa
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e n n luoll,*Hie spirit of
'love
fill old age if be had been looking
01411slooked our of the window at the
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bruth aifd will gradually troals
form all 4aar W.y I-elations. ,
-for any puch foolish luxury
And so this Christmas Eve Simeon
snow-covered roofs of the houses, glisten-
ing in tile fight of the Christmas moon.
.
In this, great work Of I'learnating the
,
Hardacl read 'his paper, shivering
I 11 ant ready," said Simeon. "Let us
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,pirit of Ohrist in all 1unian relations
do not We desiie to have, bur part? To
in his greatcoat, and then putting
out his talldw candle he undressed
hurry.11
"Yes, lye will hurri -,,,Ill. be--.
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this We Are collod. It is our high. pri .
vilege to shire Ili it. But we joust
ill the dark alid went to bed.
happy. Did you ever think f doing this
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never
, forat. tbat this can only be ite Christ-
He had hardly covered himself with
his coat before the moon came out
before?"
"Mever before-"
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nias becomes an experience rather that,
an event.
and silvered his room 'and made hina
"That is wily you have not been
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When Christ becomes an experience to
wish that it could be minted, which
was -really quite an exercise of im.
happy."
"I have nob been happy," echoed
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us as well as ail historical. person,, then
ao longer .Will Ave lified to say "What
agination on his part, He rather lik-
Simeon,
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. manner of man is this?" For 6 shall
ed the moonlight because he got it
for nothing, but he often Wished that
suppose you will regret this Ili the
morning," said Santa Claus, when they
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know what manner of man He is, that
Ele who, spaka not as the scribes, but
its Toys Avote just a bit stronger so,
were out oil the root. He gathered up
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with authority, lie Who hpake os never
that lie might save candles.
How many people Whom Santa Claus
the reins as Ito- Spoke.
1,1 Will regret it In the morning," was
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inan Spake, 'Was none other than the ,%it
of God, the Sax4oijr of the world fille
visits really believe Ili hitu? I am afraid
the parrot -like response. .
"That
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Judg(i Of tile quick and file dead, ;
that they are. so few Ili number that the
is because You did not get into
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All hail'to 1.1", 0 Saviouri As men
Old saint would feel depressed if be -were
the habit of doing it sooner. But you
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tionsclous oCTIly love, exporleneitig- Thy
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forgiveness, knot%vtng '17h_y red,4eming)
told.
But h%ppily for him lie 'Feldon, comes
will be happy to -night?' .
,,I Will be happy to -might."
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graeo -we basten to give 1hee back the
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into spedking contact With III bonefi-
Over the liousetops a-ampered the tiny
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love rholl gavest usi Forgive our oold-
many
clerical and so lie has collic Along year
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after year with his packs of good things
reindeer, and if Simeon ]lad not. been
tinder a hypnotic spell lie Would have
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. vorgiyo our
.selfishness and barahnees, even to one
and has fetidly supposed that Lis coin.
wondered at the strange ride, but lie
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Of the least of these Thy Uretlirell, for
ing is looked foirbY tile Whole earth.
thought of nothing but the getting rid of
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Whom Thou didst die. rib i-give even our
I don't suppose lie could have picked
that which lie had saved all these tears.
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unforgiving spirits And teach its to be
Merciful. Iame us o
Lt of our meanness,
out a less likely Place to Visit than tile
room Of Sbneoll Hardack. But no
In those chimneys that were small -,
-for his mortal form lie sent down money
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our littleness,, our mi'lifirity, out, Bug
picioll 011,6'of another. Help its to kn; ,
thought of anything save tile bringing
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by antli Claus, but some of tile arger
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o;es lie descended himself, and saw
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that heaven, arld tiarth are Thine, and ,
that ail thin -s are ours through 11ilee.
0=710 to Santa Claus; and lie stopped Ilia
reindeer on the sloplill; root, allowing
many happy children dreaming of the
morrow. What a pity that the Saint
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Itedeeni us Aviih Thy self-suerifiocing love
the Sleigh to rest on the southerly slant,
could not have influenced his entire life!
boran
and b thait this, eVenting the Chri.it-
while the eight little fellows stamped
0
But We hypnotism did not outlast tile
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MRS ,I(,, may speak to its not merely
And fidgeted oil the itorthern incline.
]light. still, iong before the night was
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Ofan event in bIStO3`y, but of an cxperi-
That is the usual practice oil slanting
ended Simeon ]lad given Away ,.ill his .
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is ab.sence the
roofs,, as otherwise in hi
anta. Claus left him
and tit last 8 -
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have. Alay Christ be born in our hearts.
dear might run away with the sleigli.
Harlc u River with just car faro
May it be true of us that wo Shall grow
in wisdom and in favor with God and
There is no doubt but that Santa
Claus has it inarvellous property of ae-
home.
Christmas morning was dawning Ill
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illan, Auteff.:--J. Roy VanWyok, Harrill-
comitiodating himself to small chimney a
t 0 Last when. Simeon Hardack, who )lad
It
tell, in Presbytorian.
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else his way worild be barred in count-
made hundreds of children happy by his
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less instanees: hub the house in which
Simeon lived ]lad ail ample chimney, anti
lavish donations of money ,entered his
room ftnd rubbed his eyes, The first
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The Little K40adlan Boy.
as Santa, stopped into it lie Said to Us
thing that attracted his attention ,%veto
Tho Wild Wlad waited outside die door
For the little Xanadlau BOY.
reladeer, quite as it they understood
every wora-and maybe they did;
the three holes I, the Wall paper.
He rushed t6"thent and discovered.that.
With a wbirlhig, whistling, wtitherhig rotti.
And a whdov of wicked Jay,
"This reminds me of old tillies, my
he had been robbed of their contents. He
looked Ills bed and there lay Ills
Ro cried, L I'l WlJl catch. tha lad at Suitt
I w111 qiis itlin out on the ley blastl
little follows. There am or)wds of chil-
at
pistol. The fog cleared from his brain,
I will divvy blin UP Into HIM ehares
ror -all, my datighters, the wandering afra:
dren living hero, and the old folks came
front Lite country, And I dare say T'll find
'fit all comes back to me now. That
burglar in tile fancy ball costuino. must
A schip Or tlio South and a rag fQr the West,
But inost Wr the East. for I 'love her the
. beat- I
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.. tree alreadv pretty well loadt. I Avitil
gifts. Well, !Ill give them sonic things
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have drugged me after 'Ill, and got away "'
Avith the money that I have been saving
She It) whurry and witilred, and -whoops with
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Filee I
they can't ,get in modenr Stores, for all
my things tire made by b9ad juld vv.ir-
for so many yeArs!f
Ito, to the fourth hiding place.
Aa she shi0i in it voice tit at raDeMbIes Ine'lf
.
ranted to lasV,
rushed
There was money therej but it was his
tle'lCanitdlan 134DY 110 WOro
The lit I
4k qlflot. doterinhied look
. The rot It ate little moilthfuls of
'nde(
Snow and butted each other playfully,
Lallest boar1
air, -
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A SoTVftlat passed his open door oil tile
Whea he heard tlxd racket outside the dotir
Anti the root and WWI$ shook. .
and, with it happy sitaile oil his red face$
descended.
wt t y down to light the kitch011 firet-
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'.('he inothor grow Palo. aud. oaltip #Illy child"'
But the littio 11tatiadlan Boy, lit smited.
old 814'autit
. Ilt stepped out upon the hearth and
4 I Aferry Chrlstinasill site said.
41111firry nothingl" said siffieOfi Her'
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With inactiaelits mado ,of relildeer Wit,
Billy by tile niounlight that the children
dack, Savagely-
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Witli a blaitlat coat all 11hod within,
with stockluge, and anittens, and saah ot redo
Avith a scar tortue to covdr his head,
I inust. o ill another 1,0011), for there WAS
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no oho hero but a Illan Sound Asleep.
But lot ail that ilia inoney made many
Morry Christmases that day-
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Tbo little Xanadlan Boy went f4rth
No, i1tot. sound Asleep, for as the solne
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And met tho,%Ilad from 04 Trozoil north.
What heavy saint alighted oil the hearth
signs of the Times*
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Tho A Tlld Whid shrieked with a ahvill "011,
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Siniqoir stirred and ilion sat lip.
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8116011. I-raildack WAS a miser, but lie
wife rush out to'blect you when
POW yotir oftio
you're conling, 11 at night,
.
I'vo get $,oil, m3r boy. at longthl"
But the little Poy laughed, "That's only
was not it coward, and whon lie saw the
fantastically dressed man on Ills heart),.
it -d noat Chrititmas.
Do her ,01,cs now beattl UPOil 7011 WIL11 PLII
I'low.
tllil ai)XIOUS to try y0tir strongth.
Stolle )to reached for the pistol that hl
old remonibeTed 11SIXt?
It -A nent christal". 1,
I'll run you a race iind beat yott liollow."
always kept under )its pillow and I)Z)lllt-
DO"S Alit have your rHP,P0r,S wItrwing III
.
Ile did. and the Wild Wind liail to follow.
"Catile 4011, alid we'll fight, if 76U *Alit to
ad it directly at the torpulelit body of
the good old fellow.
the Ingle or the fira*1
110es alto sit and ga%a Wit YDIt as it she
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They toul,lit afid tbey tought fill Lh3 Willa
'18ttr One step," Sala 1 haeon, "'and I'll
Could iievpr tire'?
J)DA6 Sbo teleDhona Yet, dally till the taffy
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prow attitt.
T-heit De said. 11110.1r1ellds ay)4 we'll ifty to-
blow yonr head off."
But SAIAM U111114 WAR 310 COWATJ,
chokes tile wire'?
we tioar alirlatman.
t
, gethA,T;
I retilly like -vaii, ,old Win -ter Wamher,
,
either, until not kuoNvi
Ing the, meaning (if
I ntatt IcAV6 you sicliphig and
)OCS youilliell)
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And veil newn't thlak that WOW, and.
inalice or unchatitablenem, lie simply
4 -teal Auffly Out (it dawn?
. noMe
(ReAn Irigilf.611 little XAURdifta 114yg* 11
-Isabel Yeomans Tirdwit, in The Chrittinu
smilod and $aid.-
I'll; is one of the Illachille-inade toys.
It's 110"Ar ;0hrl8Uh1A$6
litie,4 abo 11two the kettle slagilig ore t1le
night bag Otte withdrawn?
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t do not inake them bpeausp they are,
lt,s'ilo tr ChriethIC0,
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POOR XA8, ;9AXTA CLAUS.
VeAlly dallgeronA. Do 'Von intend to give
I it to your soil?"
I)IJeL4 J hla b0alit het a0proba1lon Oil JU.3t
ov-erythfug YOU do?
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it blust keeo Ura. 84nut alutts
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Sill);OTI was Surprised at Such an Ir-
1)oc,a r.ha ,Dut eream in your coffee IXUd two
linnits of SURCIr. too?
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relevelit speech frout the burglar, and
Doeti gho ouddle up atkd sinugglo Ito And zAr
W6rkhle on tqx, poetui$6
he said-
nice billigs t6 you?
. They irt ito vety final.
"Don't pretend to be out Of your heita,
M iletir ChristbAlls.
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And aut"It a lot of Alfterelit *Ayn
fOl- that Won't SAVO You- Just drop thO
Thero are ChrlAtlhas WOW waiting JA 'the
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The dollies hit itVii dremed
,bag vf plunder and eoluo with me, I'll
abollft In towift?
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lit 1111ti,ty, reds Alad blutin Anti grbya-
nut I 111w plftk Lite beAt.
lutrodflee you to a police officer lit dou-
ble quick Clow."
,,7awn1fig
a DeAr chrKwus.
Thore'ri tt little bit 4' wolkifte. who woulit
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And thon Nich toy 6116 lifts, t6 plitk
It is a well known fact that Salit.1
like a twuld n6w so*tl;
Wo toor Olithttitaft.
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Iny 01flatibas LVO, you know,
% All t1glift III 06, xreat bis Ifick.
Claus, itillong 111.3 other gifts, Ills byll.
.the ,0.ad(11Iwg volt Anti
And that N Wily 4
P.Illgglos lip to YOU;
With SATIM (1111111$ to 0.
MAN 1wiver. find now that tbo J0110 0 f
Mr, Ilarthlek 441o%ed that lut Avaq not
.
T11A a sliAititl (ibo hao to (14 It ld,;t to V1,t
what U hKI ,110c,
I 01, dear, It atolin an awfal t1ilits
. Jolaug, but actually Illemit by all bo'lily
, Lftt("; lip and unilto, Upp b lppy, utake. lk*1
I To hawk So Ilddilk 10 110--
I really Otilk Tiq fitiAd niiist tit ii&
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havill fil thty I
'Saint, old Santa Ald vi4 lit,
miliAtilla'.1 dr(lottas ooliw true,
It"; 11thr Chtl itftlkl%
.9 I 111ty btr4oll't "U? . ,
Ntas bid, hitowhigilutt. the power of flic
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