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THE LET1GFR: GAFFNEY, 8. C., DECEMBER 22, 1898 11 ‘Ft Cntlirrine’s?” Dodo fairly grrenniofi. “MtTf’.r. !)(»do, you an? ^ cxcilablsl Vitrit “W rliviiu “<)i then, N ci. J-t of Vi’.'ilki (1 y. Nun. v lu!:r>ry t!- int • iny 11 . it wiih!" Nii i wlc'it' T V.i-ird thut !’r iiir'nt 11 y iicur* * Nun drrlv. “Y’cl!. MABEL’S ( UiAlt. A cnnrsTMA* talk rv j.knkht JAunr>ui. [Popyrlf hicf is air. n; I'.o ; tin pu Sf <'uthiiiiit*’ •.vav fniiii L isr-hicf v .• ir ri'll. t i. dn r.ly don<>.” .s «!ri*;viy dimo. u ly aft. r the or.^r.n- and Dodo as they r undt r the trees in i’l’Mtrd i‘urk one I ! - .1 June Sunday, iid n:i urn fully to herself: ‘ I miydit have know n It. D *?h yo*m*: Loth vi lunutiful. L.itl) as l ivint; heart'd ti' liir.!' in mating time! Then, when ninste weldetl ti. m together—I guess Dod i will h<aro something to tell mo to night •’ Wlrieh Dodo did. Author.] ■ FT fir PLTER M- c ARTmiB “H mine, igaitl tit ho: St. ( gain: won’t We P'i th; vit fat belongs to a-fs good a family as Nan, dear, lint his fat Iter married and things v. . r. u't jileasm’it for him Deltas U it on trial with the ttherino j ■ojde. but now they are to jiay 1 i:n a lovely salary, and he have to wear sueh deceiving shoes. iKive e uieludi d tl^it we wmihl like to in'tried ju.'t <m year to a day from 1 l e.ely littk ' i n r to which you In- ,1 hini. I n. . r could have hml the to do it.” “Do !o,” t.tid Nan reproachfully; then, after a solemn pituse: “I will never trust .a man in creaking shoes again. He just (real, d Ititt::. It into your sympathies. ••IN- already allied (.'hurley what made him wall; so like a sorrowful old man over our heads, and he says ho supp is vs rt wart I ceunso he felt .a thousand yeans old and as friendless as the Wandering Jew before you invited hita to that, dinner on Chnist- mas day.” CHRISTMAS GREENS. Into HOW TOMMY CAUGHT SANTA CLAUS. KEI-ft-M.-H/VIWORTH* ^LcpYnflhl. isisi.b) At .juthufc S ONLY one Christmas dinner is possible in J05 days, I supposo sonto latitudo is permissi- ' ble‘r” “Oh, but Nan, If the sum total frightens us, wo can scoro out the things wo aro not particularly addicted to!” “Precedent would go to show that wo aro only addicted to oatmeal, tough steaks and moldy crackers. Hero goes!” Tho lamp had boon lighted and placed on tho littlo center table. By its light a bachelor girls’ den was in ado visible—a small flat, artistically cluttered with every conceivable article of inconceivable utility. Tho most interesting furnishings of the little flat were tho two bright bux". which ctimo in closo contact over tin: pad on vflilch their Barmecide feast was spread. Tho faces belonged respectively to Miss Nan Hey wood, stenographer and type writer for a big linn of lawyers, and Miss Dora Chase, who gave music lessons for a living anti wrote homesick letters for pastime. The pencil was in Miss Hoy- wood’s hand. “Celery, of course. Tho eating of celery on Christmas day is compulsory. Twen ty five cents." “Oh, Nan, won’t that lie a great quan tity?” “Wo are to havo two invited gnests. Their celery capacity is represented by x— unknown quantity.’’ “But wo aro not going to invito cormo rants. The idea was that each one of us was to invite somo one more friendless and lonely than ourselves, so as to—as to”— “Exactly. Don’t choke, please, Dodo. Whenever you give that asthmatic sputter 1 know you are getting homesick. 1 havo already invited my guest—old Mrs. Stone, paper wrapper and envelope director for those atlas makers. You should have seen her poor old bleared eyes when I invited her to come take Christmas dinner." Dodo sighed enviously. “I havo not made my selection yet. I am hulling be tween a lame girl I buy my evening pa pers from and him.” Kan held tho js-ncil suspended. A heavy footfall sounded on tho uncaspetud floor over their heads, tsotiie one was moving about in tho flat over their heads with tho ponderous slowness of an old man. “But wo don’t know him; never even saw him!" “Yes, but you know our Christmas din ner is hardly what you call a social func tion. The jani tor’s wife always s]teaks of him as the ‘lonely gentle man.’ Fho says ho ploys an organ somewhere. And | then your old Mrs. Stone would n aka it perfectly prop er." “It would not do at all,” said Nan stoutly. And Dio fell to work energi tlrally on I-/ the bill of fane “I’ve got I ho -.•* •*j,. riill bcm,. K down. •‘jihi;i. (jots”— Ml aro pic and”— “Nancy Heywood, you aro crying all over that menu. Hive me tho pencil." “Mamma used to mako such lovely mincemeat, and I used tohclphcr!” Nun sobbed in explanation. Dodo pointed the usurped pencil trag- Ictilly at her “And you aro breaking oui contract." “Not to allude to home Christmases or our own people? 1 know ll—1 know it— but"- "Think altout Mrs. Stone, Nan. It is much safer." Dodo's own yoke was not perfectly 6te<*dr. und tin tho pad, under the word “craidiorrieH, ” she absently scrawled “darH.ngest of mothers.” Fho laughed hysterically. “Our menu is getting badly mixed ,up with sentiment. Let us return to our"— “Tuikcy, of course.’' The menu finished, Dodo pushed tho ptsd away and laid down the pencil. “ Well, 1 snpprwi it will lie the lame paper girl." "It can't ho him, Dodo That is sim ply out of the question." The typewriting maid was o’der than the little music teacher by several years. also was not, as pretty. Indeed she was plain. The two things fitted tier for leadership “But Christmas, and in His Name! It ismitortf we were inviting any one for company Ti sake, Nan." Dodo was very pretty. She had a sweet, mmcttlv* mouth, large, Innocent blue eyes and the bonniest brown hair in the world. Her flgirrv was one of thqso trim, compact ones whoso symmetry Hot even a shirt W'*i*t could dsitroy. Nan looked at her refliMtivaly. If Dodo was not so exceedingly pretty, it ndebtar* ho so wnfeasible to have that lonely, ^jeavy foot ed organist come down stairs to a Christmas dinner. But a man never “out aged” his conceit, and he might presume on it. Christmas came, and there was an unwonted creak ing up and down on its'rojies of the dingy dumb wait er that did duty for the entire building. Nan had gone out early af- wk ASK YOU TO STAY.” ter breakfast and i come back with a green wreath that bad a red slur in its center. Almost every window in sight hud its green wreath with a red star for a heart. Dodo was tho churchgoer oi the twain. As she pierced her Sunday hat with a long pin she settled ! the din oar hour with Nan. While they wore talking the man over head was walking to and fro with scarce- lv muffled rrallessncss, which Dodo de clared got ittn her nerves. Then they heard a door open and the same footfall pass down the rtvps. “I suplJTsc Up' iikw fellow bus gone oil to play peace on earth and good will to- ummI t>MA to a chnisth full of rich people who don’t cure a copper whether he bus a crust of bread today or not." Hun looked at her severely. “Upon my word, Dodo, I wouldn’t Ivt my imagina- tVm run e*itirety away with mo just be cause a man over our heads is given to Iiuciiijf all day in creaking shoes and the janitor's wile uaJled him tho‘lonely gen ilan»a.‘ ” When Dodo got buck from church, Nan put tier Luch&tyeof aiTairs while she made one of tiiose mysterious exiA-dittons of whiidi Christmas day is always prolific. M lien shaenme lia k, Doilo was standing by a table in the kitchen staring tragical ly into an open paper bag. “Come k,uk at this, Nan," she said gravely. Nan walk* d toward her with apprehen sive quickness. t*f course something hud guuy wrung with the dinner. “A ki® pan with Imkid Imn'iiis and pork in it? Why, we inner ordered any brans!" “rtf ocwrsu we didn’t. That is his Christman dinner Oh, Nan!" “ W hiise?" "That poor old man's overhead." “Well, but how do you know it is?" “It just must bo. Somebody whistled up our tube, and I went to tho dumb waiter, and there were just, two bugs on it. I grabbed the one nearest tome, for I’d left the MMtco for the plum pudding sim mering on the stove, and the waiter went on up. He U tin- only one higher up than we, in wv^ve got Ids Christinas dinner"— I “And he's got our plum pudding!" | “Oh. well, let it go! A niborahlo littlo canted pudding—1 hope ho will relish it!” “But perhaps iso i refers beans amt pork.” Dodo put t ut her hands tragically. “Don't sjsak of them. 1 camu homo j in such asublimated frame'f miml! Fuch ■ music as 1 l aw l ean! today. Nan—I iman i the organ solo! It came o\i r mo like tho I swelling anthem of solemn oei an waves. | I always c ry at the sound of the sea. If 1 could iiud out who played that solo, I would pay him all I make in a year to teach me the organ. I» lifted me clean out of tho realm of worry and care, and— then—to come hack to pork and beans!” "And Mrs. Stone,” Nun added us tho twitter of the doorbell sounded through tho little apartment. It was in a state of complete readiness for the festive occasion. Nan's evergreen wreath, with ils crimson star, decorated their one front window; a beautiful branch of holly that Dodo bad secured a week be fore was suspended by her best neck rib bon from tho single gas jet in the center of the room. Two mysterious parrels on the* table under it showi d where tho ihod- ost gifts which were to brighten tho day for Mrs Htono and the lame girl were de- posited. Dodo stood absently twisting the neck of tlso bug about the pan of beans. It there was only somo way of sending his dinner back to him and making him keep their plum pudding for dessert! Then she started violently. Nan was talking to somebody, and some body was answering in a rich baritone voice that certainly did not belong to old Mrs. Ftone. What Nan said was: “Wo had just discovered the exchange. My friend took your package by mistake. Thank you very much for bringing our pudding back!” Dodo’s eyes and ears were wonder stretched at Nan’s next words. “Wo would be so glad to havo you come in and take dinner with us— that is, unless you havo friends with you up stairs." Theiieh baritonosald sadly, “No; there is no ono waiting fur me toeoino hack.” Then said Nan, with grave sweetness: “We ask you to stay. Our own Christmas will bo tho gladder for knowing that you are not all alone.” And, with a grateful glance beyond her into tho little holly decorated room, lie said, “If I might”— “It just could not be avoided, ” said Nan self defensively that night ,vhen sho and Dodo, flushed with the triumphant suc cess of their dinner, sat discussing tho day. “When 1 saw him standing then:, a pale faced boy, meekly bolding out our plum pudding and asking for his tieuns, I could no more have handed him that pan and let him go back up stairs to munch them alone than 1 could havo flown.” “Of course you could not,” said Dslo demurely. “And; then old Mrs. Htono mudo every thing Jierfectly proper; she is so dreadful?) - old." “And a> deaf as a stone wall. Do do"—Nun's plain faeo was all u- pucker with anx iety—“if you do, I’ll never forgive myself.” “If Ido what, you incomprehen sible old goose?” "Ist that poor boy fall in love with you. lie fair- Tilt MtsciiiKK was Is ink. ly devoured your face while he sat opposite you at table.” “I’lus celery, cranberries and olives. It did inu good to see him eat. But I don't see any point lu calling him a hoy just )>e cause wo mudo the absurd mistake of thinking ho was an old mail before we saw him. He is very much of a gentleman.” “An educated man. It must bo his shoes that mislead us so. They are so cheap and clumsy that I suspect he walk cd slowly to spare our nerves,” “Kindly, but, futile. He is a liandsomo boy." “ Mrs. Mono says ho Is the new organist at St. Catherine’s.” How Holly uii(1 Mistletoe fame I se. A Christmas without its greens would be like a winter without snow or a wed ding without bells. The popular custom • f decorating our homes with evergreens and holly each Christmastido lias come down through the long centuries out of tho twilight shadows of early Uomuti | mythology hallowed with pactio associa tion-. At tho annual approach of the saturnalia, the Homan feast and revel in honor of Saturn, it was the habit of the people eh, Komo to dress their temples and dwellings with green boughs. To the Koiuuns these greens were merely tho em blem of the returning life anil foliage of the spring, to which tho children of sun clad Italy looked forward with a certain southern rest fulness. Tho same praeth'**, though partaking of a mora religioiis ehar- ncte •, existed among the Celtic Druids, the ,mlly and tlw mistletoe Is ing regarded as po--ess!ny certain sacred and magical virtues, it was also an old Druidic tradi tion that tho cmss had been made of tho wood of the mistletoe, which originally was a forest tree. After tho crueilixion, t!i y raid, it was blasted and unndemm d to exist only as a stunted parasite. The present Anglo Saxon regard for the mis tletoe undoubtedly is a vestigial remnant of that old pagan superstition. It is one of the little ironies of history, however, that the Yiscum album of tho staid old Druids should evolve into our mod'rn mistletoe and Is: looked upon as { the authorized cncourager of tin: undig OM It A FFKliTY was killed h.’foro Fanthigo. The 1ml- ht wLich end d Tom's earthly pil grimage tdto sirattere l a 5 cent "igtr and js rf'iratwl a tinryiv < f fch little daughter Midiel. The cigar tv: * the last token of affix'lion given by Mabel to her father be fore he marched away to war. Many a night, when aching for a sm/ikc, had Tom taken th« pivw cigitr out of tho j)-"!%•••- book whioh ho always carried ovtr his heart and by the magic of its fnigranc • had conjured up the tear vvrt face of his lirtle girl a? ftw bad placed it betwo n his lips, and .•dter livik’ing at tho eig-ir and Hurn ptitiwusly kissing it he had always carefully wrapned it up in its ooveiitig of tin full again and rest or d it to his pock t. His oomradi* in <'empany K all knew tie story of the cigar, and when hi.- I -ly w:« found hi th" chaparral and tl:es!:at- t red cigar in his p:>"lictls;<.k it wa-1; m- (M d with tender, reverent rare, a- a sa r il thirg, to lx- r lurned to Tom'.-; wife in the tall east side nmement in New York city. There wsa mourning in tho bouse of Tom HufTurty'* widow for many day.-af* r tin- tidings of his death, together with :!; • pock; Lhook, rrxi-Uvd New S'ork. Tin) m t ciful forci'tfulm-s of childhood s i. 1 Mabel from the brooding sorrow v.hich consumed her mot bar. But why her fa ther IumI not smoked the cigar sho could not undcrtb&nd. NT itlier could sho ap- '■ predate why ho had not taken it to heaven. The idea of her father bc'ng happy in any jdaix: where he could not smoko was riuieulous to Im t childish fancy, for she could not uefamibiT her father in his hour; of csrar wi«1*»sAacigar in hie mouth But the clear with the hole made by tho The r-z u in of flu? Was d r a a iu a p'-ac-'-— Of days »#V1. tie Will t tv.- earth And win War will cecsn*. Great Ivan Aker-' chooski ro.-e. That <h"f of tdgh renown. Who-i-privil-ge It Is to do Tin- royal jian- eak'-s brown. j , i L ti.*.: » 1 * vii i in mu i u. i t iivj , i |A Mauser rifl.- tu-D ttrrough the middle, wa- \ pli.ood, with tiie other little inumcntos < f h ]/•< UNDER THE MISTI.ETOK. nifled oseulatory art. As for holly, on tho other hand, I’liny tells how the Homans endowed it with supernatural powers, planting it near their dwellings that they might not ho struck by lightning, and the j Latin writer, Loniccrus, said it was very good for a st Itch iu the side. The steadily increasing demand for these Christmas greens has given birth I to a new industry of no insignificant i projsirtions. r-omo idea of the) quantity of mistletoe that is made use of each Christ- i mas may be judged by tho fact that a great city like London or New York im- |Mirts over 100 tons each Yulotide. But tho mystic mistletoe which we hang on our own chandeliers and under which wo essay the most audacious labial exercises 1a really cousin to tho European species ami is known to the botanist aud florist as I'horadi mlron llaveseens. It is smaller, both in berry and leaf, than the English plant, but one can kiss just as miwiy girls Utah r it as cue can under tho genuine Eu- I ropean article. American inlsth-too is fouad in great quantities in New Jersey and southward tlinugli the Ciw«lin:is, in New Mexico and in tb.o Indian TT rritory. Hero it is gath ered, paekid in eraltM or lau rels aud ship- jH il to the distrilmting agencies in tls) , larger cities. The Etigli.«ii mistletoe, litm - - cver, on account of its pearly white her- rit.-and iis larger leaves, is more souglit afte r, aud great quantitiuA are shipped Lu crates each winter from Liverpool. Tho price it brings iu American markets by tlie pound is usually from ”5 to ;tu cents. Mo.-t of the 1 holly used in America at Christinas comes from Maryland, Virginia and the neighboring soutliern states. A certain amount of English holly is import ed, but the shipments of this glossy United plant aer tho herring pond are attnual- ly (Uere.i-ing. The American holly will som< tin;'- grown to a In |ebt of b) fi'et. As each )• ..r holly ep.ters more and tnoro into ib ' or.itlve tle.-i^n for Christmas both in the ehiifeh and the household, tlie im mense quantity that is shipped north ea* - h wlnUT from tin* tempeialK soitUiera states has given birth to a new and important indu-try. The inurea-ed (fl'titthid formls- tliArs: also hash'd to tho artiliehil propa gation of that sticky r eded parasite. Cul tivator- ».f the plant make a V shaped in- cisiuAi in the bark of ortHnary fruit trees or lu that of maple, poplar or basswood and insert the seeds in the cavity. As the mi-tlctou is a true parasite, living on the sap of otnhr trees, in a lew weeks the plant begins its growth. It-Itcrrks are about tlm size of currants, whiteand tiaa-lueent aud Ullud with a viselil juice whieh n rvts ihe purpo-e of attaching the seed to the hmnehes or bark of Irv - during the proc- s.-s of germination. Jons Le ci.aiu. Dh> dead trwa, in th« IsAtom drawer of tlio lAireau, wbere it was bidden from Mi.IWh sg<b» hm in any Months. Her motkuv, however,.saw it very often. When weaiy of Vke n>»*ii4e lycbt with poverty in%th«< evening w hen Mabel was aslcej), Mrs. Hirfieity took ton e^gar out of its hiding pdiioo and wuvs-axi It v. if Ii lin gering randtinw ls.x.-ai!»» it brought back swwc* kwr ‘‘Vrave lad,*' as biie was f/niA frfvAdCng l»vr dead liusJisind. U vvi* Jtaw Toan wa* kUi-tl, and now that imr pijy vr;i* stopprtl jsjverty pinehwd the Irtflu fiwaily sorely. Espo- chilly wa4 tliis true when tlm witit r ii.<nitbsi c;»m« arWl the exjs'iise of fuel was tiddnd to tli* general outlay from Mr-. HafTerty's vletxter Arirniiig-i, ami when i)e- ciimlicr e.-wuc >-?«• iv«kl Mats'! Santa Claus Would protinhly not pay them his usual visit IweauAC h* ha^ K'^tic away to a far country iwk! auuld nut get back again in time “And won't papa have any Christmas prnMM «K?Wr*’’ i*fkA<l Malxd anxiously. "No, my <kn«,” replied Mrs. HafT. rty, with quivering lip. “He is In heaven. | Siuitn CUmia never goes tliero. But never { mind, Mabel, we won'# worry about it." Bnt all the time MaUd was thinking how WTefa’hed her papa would bo In huaren witkunt hit Christmas slippers, and capuekdly hie cigars. And with tbo thixighe qt tlie eriyws tle-TA flashed across Inn* tuUtd a plan no Ixilri, so audacious, tUit It twurly took her fimath away. Eor- tumu«4y the Mirrying out of her fclmuu^ (Ami Ml asiaep Injure sho had time Ui impnM it toh«r mottujr. It wan a rerrewful Christmas eve for Mrs. She was tsivr living on tfwtnorhtf. Fhe roealled. the happiness of tiio provious Chrintiuas Sime when Tom was wUIt hur .Moved by an uueontrol- labki h(ipt4(«l, idM took ottt of the bureau all of Mm mauisMtos of the doptuxud—the tear rOainod pixekage of letters be had sent hur from ChJbti, tiw pin»mw of MaUd with tho bniM Itoi* through tlie breast and, la.**, tho eigor. Ovtreorno by her grief, sis) tiarow bsanelf upon tho lied, forgetting in her anguish to replace the keepsakes In their customary biding plaoe. ChristBiuo day Itwokc Itright and clear over tho City. In her preparations fur breakfast in tlw kitchon Mrs. HufTerty for got that ah# bod left her precious memen tos uxpusuU upon the bureau. Just as sho diMid tho door softly Is'hlnd her on her way to tbo grocery Mabel awoke. Whllu putting on law clothing sho saw tho cigar tqwm .tho imroau. Fhe peered into tb<' kitchen and anw that Iter mother was gone. With her iM-art boating a livoky teittoo agaUiAt,hnr rilwi sbo seized the cigar aud ran down tb« stairs. 1'odcAtriauA puuoed ns they saw a little gIrHIiO by with cagvr face and disappear in the crowd. How she got there was al ways a inystory, but within an hour after leaving home sht-Mood before a delivery window In Wlw Kmv York peistollke. Tho top of her goidwi Iwad just reached the window ledgo. The rh-rk looktd down into a i«U of wbikful Mm* eyes. “I’laM^ MR,** wM Mab«d, “I want to send a CbtisSinas OMA nt to my papa.” • - l/lmmie potm pu%>», yon little cficrub?*' said tho cbttii. “In hwiroQ,” fwftl'ivd Mal*fl simply. “In iwavcnr* ccitusd the clerk aghast. iiumMiui n^ys Ntwiin Claus m-ver f>*-* ttieoe, *u I want U> send - him a presun* all kg’ Mamma don’t know anythingaticKit it, and nobody don’t know but mm. I UUMD to seaid it all my self* " And fclto upon tlto window ledge a ILUle roll ♦>/ brown paper. Tho eh-i‘k cgjurexd it nud ilbvph|.\»ed a most dis- repuUtblo clgttr. fie bit ills Up. He had a litlda dattghbe* of bin own at homo. Seeing his WthsKon, the tear* illed Ma bel’s Aptfs «ls sbo sowbsinted: “Oh, .-tit, phxire do *Mtil it! Don't the cars rua tudag 1 My |mp-i caft’t get no eig:w« in 1mb»«si, 'iMiistf uiaaima says •hey don't ’e«i. lh*, pleaso, sir, A«ml it! It 'S mine 1 IsjogtH i* for papa Indore itu wioit to war! Wbot time does ri • go? ITii afr.rid my present will lh- too 1 .r* !” By tin* Mmv tlie eli-rk had rixovareil Id- self p-wMcsAinu. He |ri<'ki*I up a ti:u«-table of Um lludsan Ulvtr railroad and appnr- eiitly road fr<sn i'*: “Kitot njrul traiM leaves f<# Parallso todsjr nb o’clock. i/itUu girl, your p.ijin will gvt your prenuut bufitro supper tonight." "Ob, Urn an gfatl?*' exclaimed M ib<d, her iana imuiiaacd with smiluA .is apple bi<'-- hum light up ail orchard. Vtliun tbe lailiixviian tnrned over Mabel bohurMiMtlmriBi hour luler, be had a brief talk with Mns. •tafferty lit th" hah and gave her the cigar, whlrh hud l*een given to Id in by tiie jsistal clerk. But MaTel still thinks tlua tlie cigar ha* long since been btirtwd thv bhMMd lie raiiMd « sonantnl Of hr four That UMA liwJtn- lac iiraas* jits lung*; And jm iho welkin's eti'. The rentinels and w ardors came— Oh, Where was Davis then'.' Tlie s<-, He was one™ that should b shown By his immortal pen. They raced and chased in bal lad style (See IVrev. Kip ling, Scott). They banged the tocsin on the! tower. The eulverin they shot. 1=4. j) • il \ IT? W ti "shj't'r*] Now a ad And It 11 ask'd! Oh, rail' have pit Each soul! Kftsoeas S< loejksMt sokoff UnMirtbog Jan awful cle 1 The mothc St. Helen Will long morning He found within; the p a 1 a c walls A nlldllstlc plot Ten men withC,_^/: high explosive* names W'-re on the In- & stunt shot. Ttiey thenbrongh;- forth a convict w ho To death was doomed next day And promis' d him a pardon if He'd take the thing away. He thought his little H< sorrow his wife; A frozen Ur two he Then ba'tet well to hfd It j|.a I't 'ft 1 ' wflOfrc S " . r .all tes, lor or (d. ire- ngfllt Ire ga ng With tro hands lie rk-il It Beyond the4ut- c-r gate, There on a w asie of He f 11 r t tempted n . V r"'i all the lu «..t' i cord Will; v.hl'di tin thin ; w u ,bound And with a store of cntamels This lit tie card he found: “With sonuble •omplimeiits Doth Santa Claurkl give This to hia Littk H .tli'-r.-ki. YVith hi i" : that he may live. they all off » U * 1o ashes iu the kingJota of <)h, tin n came qui k Aad to themselves they f.- Now. b not ih.s as quaint a talc Aj '. v r bard did till?