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THE SIGNAL
GODERICH, ONT.
The Cratchits' Christmas Dinner
Tbi1 extract from Dickens' "llrlst-
aras Carol," while familiar to many
readers, will bear repeatlutt, cep:'Ial-
lJ at the Claistmaa season. It will
letlitertle,
miserly Scrooge had beim visited by
a .Spirit, It whose Instant* the old
miser was given glimpses of life to
which he had long been a stranger.
This is the story of the Christmas
dinner at the home of Bob Cratchlt,
the abused, ill -paid ,'leek in Scrxige's�Cratehit, second of her daughter, al-
bmte. Scrooge and the Spirit wit- so brave In ribbons; while Master
nese the scene without being them=/-'eter ['rabbit plunged a fork tato
selves vtslbie. ill* saucepan of potatoes, and getting
the corpers of his montroua shirt col-
lar (Hobs private property, conferred
upon his son and heir In honor of the
day) foto his mouth, rejoiced to find
himself ,+o gallantly attired, and yearn
ed to show his linen In the fashionable
Parks. And now two smaller Crat-
and stopped to bless Bob Cratchlt's
dwelling with the sprinkling of hi.
torch. Think of that! Bob had but
fifteen "bob" a -week himself ; he pock-
eted un Saturdeys Nit .*Roca vvt$�
Ot: "'elf Mettles cams; and yet the
Ghost of Chrtstmaa Present blessed his
four -roomed house!
Tben up rose Mre. Or*tchlt, (lrat-
chit's wife, dressed out but poorly in
a twice -turned gown, but brave in
ribbons, which are cheap and make a
goodly show for a sixpence; and she
lata the cloth, assisted by Belinda
They went on,'-tnWlbte,-- ae they
had been before, Info -tie suburbs of
I the tows. It was a remarkable quai-
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sty of the Ghost (which Scrooge had
,observed at the baker's), that, not-
withstanding bis gigantic else, he
l could_ -ss ou ufklate himself._ to___anl_. , .boy and girl, came tearing in,
I place with ease; and that he stood be. ,;wreathing that outside the baker's
Beath a low roof Quite as gracefully tile,. had emelt the goose. and known
and like a supernatural creature, as It re- t'•elr mon; and barking In lux -
it esus pusalb;e he could have done h. ,i ; is. t . „ght- .,f nage and onion.
_--A-ntsnti date i!'ftr' hall.
And perhaps it was the pleasure the tail:. , and
good t4pirlt had in showing off this c . t ;tit to th
eoocr of his, or else It was his own ! ,M, although
Lisnl. gonyrous, hearty n/titre, and his !:,.ked him! 1.
empathy with all pour wen,Ilcat led, .,v potatoes.
heart is light. -Wallace. •
Mistress (instructing the new but
ler!-Now, how do you address a bar-
onet?
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steno *bore
Melted Ma -ter Peter
!a:•w
"'I'll" he loo! "And your brother. Tiny �! And tons to Ie•ar eituesaes-to take the
1hi' collars nearly ]ruttha warn't a- 'ate last Christmas pudding up and bring it In.
:,'w• the fire. until the Ir,v ey halon.e.ob , - - Sn- ---e It ,9ould not he done
Because of Christmas
Silt let a mother's lullaby
Ie every simple note the croons
There is a prayer the Father hears:
"Lord, be unto my child a ligngl"
God listens, well remembering when
IIs bade the angels sing a Child,
His "Peace on earth, good -will to men!"
sa �
a e winlh�e light g lavnn 11t.,iYl --r -�'
$ralde her drowning baby's bed.-
:
..Ged seen- prayerin that smooth slew
,$rthaltfltttg the little head.
A prayer gold -white as asphodels-
"Lord, be unto my babe a. Lights"
God sees, for He once lit a Star
Above -,'Baby's crib at night.
- Violet Alleys Htoref .
Vll����� cry[ ®s',raiZQ7
Year! He'll be very merry and very
happy, I have no doubt !"
The children drank the toaat atter
ber. It was tbe first oe their proceed-
ings which had no heartiness. Tiny
Tim drank it last of all, but he didn't
care twopence for it. 8eroow was
the Ogre of the family. The mention
of his name east a dart shadow on
tbe party, which was tact dispelled
for full Ove minutes
After it had paned away, they
were ten times merrier than before,
from the mere relief of Serouge the
Baleful being done with. Bob Crat-
chlt told them bow he bed a situa-
tion in his eye for Master Peter,
which would bring him In, 1f obtained,
full five -and -sixpence weekly. The
young :lratehits- laughed• -tremen-
dously at the Id ; 4t I'eter'a.being a
Wren of business; and Peter himself
looked thoughtfully at the Are from
between his collars, as If lie were de-
liberating what particular Invest-
ments be should favor when he cams
into the receipt of that bewildering
Income. Martha, who was a poor ap-
prentice at a milliner's, then told
ttwm what kind of work she Sad- to
do, and how many holies she worked
at a stretch, and bow she meant to
Ile abed tomorrow morning for a good
long est : t•,morrow being a holiday
.rl ut heaue.__ kleta .Lear ree-
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h,ul vein a .v.uuri••a and w lord some
drys b, fore. and how tis• lord "was
much a',.nt as hill as Peter;" at
which 1'. ter polled up his collars so
high t , t you couldn't love seen his
head it you bad been there. All this
time the chestnuts enol the jug • went
round and round; uud by-and-by they
hied a song. about a lost chlkl travel-
ling In the snow, from Tiny The.
who had a plaintive little yoke, and
sang it very well Indeed.
There was nothlnng of high mark
In this. They were not a handsome
family: they were not well dowsed:
their shoes were far from being water-
proof ; their clothes were seenty ; and
Peter might have known, -and very
likely did, the inside of a pawnbrok-
er's. But they were happy, grateful,
pleased with one another and con-
tented with the time; fid whin they
faded, and looked happier yet in the
bright sprinklings of the Splrtt'a
torch at parting, Scrooge had his eye
upon them, and eating/illy on Tiny
Tim, until the last.
bubbling up knocked • 'Here's Martha. mother!" cried the enough : grog". -e it should look ht
WO young (-rat, hit.. "Hurrah!" turning out Suppose seutehody
Tecte'4 such a Martha!" should have got over the wall of the
"Why, bless your heart alive. my back -yard, all stolen it. while they
dear, how late you are!" said Mrs. were merry with the goose -a stip-
l'ratchlt, kissing her a dozen times,
and taking off her shawl and bonnet
for her with ofikcious seal.
"We'd a deal of work to finish up
last night," replied the girl, "and had
to clear away this morning. mother!"
"Well! Never mind so long as you
are come," said Mrs. Cratchlt. "Sit
ye down before the tire, my dear, and
here a warm. Lord bless ye!"
"No, no! There's father coming,"
cried the two young Cratehhte, wive -
were everywhere at once. "Hide,
Murtha, hide!"
So Martha hid herself, and in came
little Bob, the father, with at least
three feet of comforter, exclusive of
the fringe, banging down before him;
and his threadbare clothes darned up
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and brushed, to took seasonable; andratchit laid. sad calmly too. that be
Tiny Tim upon his shoulder. Alm regarded It as the greatest success
for Tiny Tim, he bore a little crutch, achieved by Mrs. Cratcbtt sines their
and had his limbs supported by an trwrrtsge. Mrs. Cratchk said that.
now the weight was off ber mind, Mie
],butler -Tour lordship. him straight is, Scrooges clerk's for 1,.' I'v at the •aucepu.-ill to be let
"And his lady?" "Your ladyship" there he went, and took Scrooge with ..ud peeled.
"And an admiral?" "Er -your flag -1 him. holding to his robe; and' on the ! "What has ever got your
ship." threshold tet the door the Spirit smiled, father then?" said Mrs. Cra
Premie
tehlt.
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MEN'S FINE BROADCLOTH SHIRTS
In plain shades or
stripes. Separate
collar or collar at-
tached Sizes 14 to
17. Christmas
95c $1.95
MEN'S HANDKERCHIEFS
Men's Linen Handkerchiefs
Priced from
MEN'S FINE GLOVES
Men's Fine Leather Gloves, in brM7, g
sand. warmly line, at
11IEA'S WINDBREAKERS
hien's all -wool sipper Windbreaker, In Mae
position at which the two young Crat-
chits became lira! A11 sorts of hor-
rors were snppo.ed.
Hallo! A great deal of "team! The
pudding was out of the copper. A
smell like a washing -day! That was
the cloth. A smell like an eating -
house and a pestrycook'e next door
to each other, with • laundreaia next
door to that! That was the pudding!
In half a minute Yrs. Cratchlt cu•
tared -numbed, but (Minns proodly=
with the pudding, like a speckled
cannon -tall, so hard and firm, blazing
lu half-a-gtlartern of ignited brandy.
and bedigbt with Christmas lolly
stuck Into the top.
Ob, a wonderful puhding ! Bob
iron frame!
MEN'S MUFFLERS
to do so. Any Cratchit would have
blushed to hint at such a thing.
At last the dinner was all done, the
cloth was cleared, the hearth swept,
and the fire made up, Tbe compound
In the jug being tasted. and consid-
ered perfect, apples and oranges were
put upon the table, and a shovelful
of ebeetnuts on the fire. Then all
the Cratchit family drew round tbe
hearth, in what Bob Cratchlt called
a circle, isometric halt a sane; and at
aglicd mr„, cratchtt, when obehad rai. Soh Crannies elbow stood the family
lied Bob on his credulity, and Bob display of glass. Two tumblers, and
bad hugged his daughter to lite Nan's, a cusumi "P with"t a 11213(11.'
• -mkt,- add -Soh, manit-ttli."howtMee, Kr -1417'41v -
better. Somehow he gets thoughtful lets would have done; and Bob served
sitting by himself so much, and thinks
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IV with Initial Buckles, in blaek, brown $1 00
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19c, 25c, 39c and 49c
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I BOYS' AVIATOR CAPS
gwith Goggles, In black or brown..75c and 89c
Leather
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A new and large aisortment to choose from, at
BOYS' CORDUROY BREECHES
Sizes t5 to 16 yeara. Christmas Spetiel $1.49
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A wide assortment of patterns
from. All sines at
1114
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Men's
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Choicest of colors
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Prices at
$2.69
All goods boxed
if desired
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Men's Fine nil -wool Sweaters, In fancy $2 69
becks or plain. Special
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it oat with beaming looks, while tbe
the strangest things you ever heard. chestnuts on tbe fire sputtered and
He told me. coming home that be bop. cracked noisily. Then Bob propoved:
ed the people saw him in the church, "A Merry Christmas to os all, my
because he was a cripple, aod it might dears. God bless us!"
be pleasant to them to remember, up which all Lim family ee-eehoed.
on Christmas Day, who made lame "God bless tut every one!" said Tiny
beggars walk, and blind men see." Tim, the last of all.
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'WI, s Yoke was tremulous when he
told them this, and trembled more
when he said that Tiny Tim was
growing strong and hearty.
Ills active little crutch wax heard him by his side, and dreaded that he
upon the floor, and back came Tiny 'night be taken from him.
Tim before another word was spoken, "Spirit," said Serooge, with an in -
escorted by his brother and sister to terve he had never felt before, "tell
his stool before the fire; and wbile me 11...Tba,y Tim will live."
Itob, turning up his cuffe-as if, poor "I see a vacant seat," replied the
fellow, they were (sayable of being Ghost, "In the poor ehimney-eorner,
made more clubby --compounded some and a crutch without an owner, care -
hot mixture In a Jug with en and full, Preserved- It theee *bedew*
lemons, and stirred it round and remain unaltered by the Future, the
round and pot it on the hob to slim- child will die."
mer; Master Peter, and the two Me- "No, no," said !Scrooge. "Oh. no.
quiteus young Cratchits went to fetch kind Rplet! ley he will be spared."
the goon, with which they soon re- "If these shadows remain unaltered
turned in high procession. by the Future, none other of my nice,"
Such a !seep ensued that you returned the Ghost, "will find him
might have tliongbt • goose the rare* here. What then? If he be like So
of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, dle, he had better.do It, and decrease
to which a Mack swan was a matter the surplusspopulation."
of course -and in truth -It was some- Scrooge hung his head to hear Mx
thing very lite It in that house. Mrs. own words quoted by the Spirit. and
Cratchit made the gravy (ready be- was overcome with penitence and
forehand in a little saucepan) hewing grief.
hot; Master Peter mashed the pots- "Man," said the Ghoort. "If man
toes with Incr•dible vigor; Mln Henn- you be in heart, not adamant, forbear
da Rwretened up the appletvanee; that wleked eant until you have die
Martha dusted tbe hot plates : Bob took eovered What the surplus la, and
Tiny Tim beale bim In a tiny corner Where it is. Will you deckle whet
not forget- it may be that, In the sight of Hea-
ting themsele c, and mounting guard ven. yen are more worthies', and less
upon their po-t:, crammed spooes Into tit to live than millions like this poor
their mouth., lest they should whriek man', ehIld. 011 God! to hear the
for goose bilei-e their turn came to Inseet on the leaf pronouncing on the
be helped. .1t bun the dhehes were too netch life among him hungry
net on, a IN I erne. wee scald. It was brothers in the 'best!"
enereeded by a breathless panes, as Scrooge bent before tiw• Ohoet's re -
Mrs. Cratehlt. looking Stowing all
along the carving -knife, prepared to
pintlitgo it tii the invest; bat when ahe
dkt and. WWII the long espected - gush
table with- the • handle of his knife,
and feebly cried Anrrall I
There never was such a goes*. Bob
maid be didn't believe there ever was
and flavor, Mas and eheapness, were
tee themes pe mil vents i ad m I ra tion.
Eked out bt apple -mane. and mashed
itortveylogr oDaslikt-arn:j1111"11;a:tolir"imilid"dantf4We: Antilliftlano ?livowirkr.n
shoiticaon:/reastmtworeethhet7•20biony,:nrtzninntp.dhgrea, rimies• t iifirienrimateitre4=„..e.bnit:emitnaluthamentoopm.peirt:tunalfinnenrei-
He sat very close to his father's'
side upon his little stool. Bob held
his withered little hand ID h14. as if '
he loved the child, and wished W keep'
air
Nike, and trembling cast his er's
on 111;P ground, lint he reified them
epeedny, on hearing his own name.
"Mr. ileiantel" aele Rob; "I'll rive
you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the
"The irminder of the Faust indeed!"
cried Mr. erne -hit, reddening "I
wbb I bed him here ed give him •
piece of my mine to feast ripen. and
I hope he'd her, a good appetite for
"My dear," mid Rots "the ehildrent
Christmas Day."
"It ebottld be Obrietmes Day. 1 am
sure." orlid atm "on whleh ono drinks
the health of such an odkoul, Alma,
harthorrfeettmesillill sic Mr. lievetaget
Ten -know tills *-kifitsirt mow"?
knows, it hotter than you do. poor
fellow !"
"My dear," wee Role* willd answer.
"Chriatmas Day."
"111 drink to his health for your
sake and the Dare" amM bra Oen-
ehlt, "not Mr Ms. long life M heat
A Harry Christmas and a happy new
KINGSBRIDGE, Dee. 13. -The
Kintail branch of the Women's In-
stitute held their December meeting
at the home of Mrs. M. J. O'Connor
last Thursday. The branch extended
sympathy to their president, Mrs. R.
McDonald, in the sudden death at her
home. • few week. ago, of her Miter -
in -law, Mlas Flora MeDonald. They
also sympathise sincerely with Mrs.
D. MacLennan in her bereavement In
the death of her husband. Tbe branch
is much coneereed over the Illness of
Mrs. R. Riasett, who underwent an
operation in London last week but
who is getting along nicel7 now.
Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Garvey, Mr.
Thos. Garvey, jr., Miss Mary Garvey
and Dolores Dalton visited at Mr.
John Hussere, Goderich. on Sunday.
London last week.
Mies Antoinette Dalton haw gone to
maks a visit wig_kw ramie owl lute
Almeatp
rdhilif -Collins 'sit Stratford
visited at Mrs. Wm. Drennan'. last
Mina Mary Margaret Dalton spent a
couple of days last week with Mende
in Goderich.
CREWE
ORME, Dec. 12. -Mr. and Mrra
Cecil ()hammy and daughter Ann and
Mrs. Joseph Obamuey, of Beigrarn
were guests of Mr. and Mrs Ray-
mond Finnigan recently.
The sympathy of the community (!s
sate:- i to lair. Ou'etlls Ifitrtstn - ;--_
his bereavement by the death of his
mother, Mrs. Wm. Durnln, who
passel away on Tuesday, December s.
A very pleasant time was spent at
the borne of Mr. John Kilpatrkk on
Friday, December el, when Mxteen men
spent the evening playing checker,.
The young people are busy practis-
ing for their Christmas concert, which
will be held fa...tharbasab en -anew
evening, December 22.
W. M. S. Alttsival Meeting. -The an•
mutt meeting of the W.M.B. was held
at the home of Mrs. Matthew Shackle-
ton on Friday, December 8. The pre-
sident, Mrs. Meuary, occupied the
chair. Readings were given by Mrs.
Ceosler and Beth Sie onnell. A solo
was rendered by Mr.. Watt and a
duet by Mrs. Drennan and Mrs. Riv-
ett. Election of offcere took place
for the ettautng year and resulted as
follows: President, Mise Susan Kil-
patrick ; vice-president, Mos. Meuary ;
_ wuryeiolssnol ing eerresno. ,Mrs. Cr►Iler ;
press aec•retary, Mrs. Raymond Finni-
gan; rcording secretary, Mrs. Bert
Treleaveu ; treasurer, Mrs. Bert Pin-
ulgan; orgunirt, Bernice lhtrnin; as-
-t -tont organist. Eileen Treleaven;
11''ner fund, Mrv. John Kilpatrick;
strangers' secretary, Mra. McWhinney;
t. inporaw t• secretary, Mrs. Shackleton.
tethers for the Ladles' Aki were
chosen as follows: Preaklent, Mrs.
Menary; vise -president, Mrs. Crosier;
secretary, Mrs. Drennan ; treasurer,
Mrs. McConnell; committee, Mrs. Kil-
patrick, Mrs. Maize, Mrs. Sherwood;
parsonage committee, Mra. Rivett,
Mrs. Gauley, Miss Basan Kilpatrick,
MIs. Matlock.
To get thine ends, lay bashfulnese
aside; he who fears to ask. doth teach
A BIG STOCKING
Mother -"What is it, my dear?"
Bobby -"It's good the foot of •
mountain dotal have • stocking to hang
up at Cluirtmas thee.
TELLING IT TO THE POILICILWAN
"Yon ean't talk that wa• to me
officer, maid the young lady. "The
brakes on this car don't work, and I
can't etop And anYwhere Yoe Please -
Besides, I don't even have a iiel.12110 to
drive! So leave me alone, will you?"'
THE CENTAUR
one slay In the British lifteseum 11
guide wax recountine to a little group
of tourist,' the glorlex of a battered
centaur, when a Micago meet males
man Interrupted with the question:
"Excume me, air, but what would
they feed a glnk like that on -ham
and eggs or hay?" -Washington La
bor.
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