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I had her carried oil' and llllp1'lBOIl€(l lll tlld t0“.e,. of the castle. ‘several months pass- rd' mv son wus faithful to his word, I to mv pride, I decided to kill the maiden, Sify _.Wg word to _her secretly to escape at the tirst oi;poi‘t\\I1lf)’- A Sllken ladder “'35 gi,-pn ht-1-‘ and she was carefully instructed as to its use, and how to fasten it t§_i__tl1e Window She prepared for flight. en

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iifortunate nirl with it as it fell, and she I;-(,u1d`be dashed to pieces upon the marble

.lltgwas Christmas! That night 9 eeleepin the fee' °.f G°‘l'» Thi” cieilfils ' ~ red to an im“1€“S"Y 0 .-

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nn ._ _ _ iieverendiiig succession. Beneath _ fll_€;?c arches sinall £l0ldel1 lllmlls “ere Bmltigt

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an angel with coal black wings, who blew upon the flame to mi-il-ie it burn out more `quickly. I was in mortal fear and I was a coward; yes, I was a coward,” said the Duke, trembling violently.

lamp burned another with a steady and brilliant dame; a white-winged angel

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“Listen, Robert! listen! Beside my

he over the olden vessel The

nothing From the black angel’s wing I

plucked' a feather, and dipping it into the Past- ______.

b 'll' tlam Itook the oil out drop by

n mn P ~ t Wm M A Vnrr Dlsasgreeable Name Gtveu to Man’

on the threshold of Christmas. when

but as the first, best gift, giving mean' to all the others, which are only types. we not in the hurry of preparation and the bustle of the celebration, lose sight

get that it is in honorif

“ The Lord of Glory

Who once a babe became?"

mas days. It is worth any sacriiice

Christmas brings to the larder; dec tions that charm the eye, and, if they of fragrant evergreen, with its spicy

drop and let 1t~f?1n in od nigdoasb dy. _ Cliarmnig Woiiien.

flame became brilliant an , the other grew paler, but retained i - There is no term more frequeiitly mis ry brightness. Only one drop of 0 re- plied than that of “old maid.” Whene mained; the white angel stretched forth it is uttered it seems to imply a sort his wing to stop me, but another with covert sneer atacmndition that is regar wings gleaming like mother-of-pearl and lg' the uiiiliiuthg as being one indica.

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hearing a golden sword came to us. 1 ' slight on me part of the niasoulme

the man do his will! God will judgg tion of tlie_ world. Now, theie never W

himg' he Sai.; Then 1 took the last drop greater mistake than the prevailing no

that because a woman asses the first fl

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Of Oil- ` _ _ _ .P “shi ` 1,. _ 12. NN.; I “Then I W” af;-aid_ 'Whose hm? is of_youth without Joining hands at the altar f\\\\,_ },, \&;' .jj

mise' I asked Pointing go the game which i with some lord of creation she must be ni- ';t-_ _I -,fs _ sig

from ' 'i'1*“/1'-> f fl* I

washjust on the point of going out. And evitably an undesirable creature that

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I 'W lb. ui. voice 1-epiiei, ‘nllnlemi of uiybe semfofoshe wi\1_\><= e=»1\~=d_ an on m

I -J .| loved son.’ At that moment the dame *nd mlde the Buble” of “HY les” , , f \‘ »" »`» - ' '~

jg*-_f;_'__';§_;1_,____.__ __ ` _ il ' went ou_t. The white angel to_ok the soul 5l1°“8hI"l°35 "d\°\‘l°_- _ `7~" #fi Wi. " 1 "i, ___ ‘_ 5‘ in its Wings and flew away with a cry of As a. woman talking to women, and men Gradually his eyes turned around towards

" Nh-' ~ __-' ~ ,A Ry _;fjp' grief; but the Spirit of Evil responded as well, we give. our canilill opinion a i'u.tlie| het; then he frowned With his 8y€bl‘0Wl.

~ * \ ,_-1.' .` fi '_,1l- ', ' ' _ b '~rL1ie- Catching my cue, I enunciated slowly and _ ‘ _ Nr" _.§J I I ‘ ' ' _ ' ' ` " ‘ ` '

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,_-r , with a loud oi-y of triumph pronounced statement, ut one, nei e

5 \ \_ _ f I awoke frozen sglff mth hon-or Two less, that We implicitly believe in, nam /__ , " 1', » " ` _ (Q01-pggg We]-9 gtrgtqhed gut upon tha H901- ’_l.\at DI) W0|n&ll ll_I8S L0 the Bge 01 tl_l1!'

of my 1-00m_ crushed almmf out of human live without having at least one oder _ sh,,pe_ My son, nogiged by his bah-owed, mai°r1a.ge;_therciore the silly _notion that is of the lower lip; and then quickly released had wished to Protect her in her gjghf, and coupled with the term old maid is entirely the keys, letting the elastic tendons turn

the dreadful trap which I had set for her “'f°°S-

had killed them both. It was Christmas- A woman has _her own reasons for re

twenty years ago!" ing single. It isn’t because no man w _

The old man fell back in his chair, the her, but rather because she ilocsnot perhaps and his success was assured.

ggars streaming down his ftwe. choose to ally herself with such ones as li

“Stop"’ he said to the negro who wasl done hex' the honor to ask her, or, maybe, after another And the pantoniimic gestures

`map~ and solemn utterances of Humpty kept the

tending Lthe precious lamp. "Feed the 'there has been in her life some great d flame no more! I have made my confes- ` pointnient, or a finding out _ before it

sion, new 1 can aie_but em God and par- _ we late how much better it is iq be ea-lla

don for me?" _ an old maid than an unhappy wife.

At that 1110111611# tllb C-Nile bell rang Charming, at_tracti\'e_women, many

loudly and the chants of the church were _ are, who are still classified among the “cn y_ Dug merry 0 “_ _ heard. The doors of the great hall swung ‘ visaged, vinegarly, elderly maidens, whom With many a whisper, many a start.

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old Duke fell on his :knees tpe __I_i_i- .natrons__ratl_iei_; thai; _maids,__could unfold Laden with wonders t t msn ci °my|,"

fnnt God. “Mani” said the voice o e inauy a- _ear s ory o ove an _ roman

priest, “chi-lei was bom, suffered, med to _ the slwhms y9\1\1e=wr=_vhQ, iw swf me 4-M... ....1 .human dn., _-, ¢,,,_ redeem the sins of men. .. Thou hast sinned, _ “ut m hf¢» ‘hulk that 9° 3°. 91.4 ll In the mammg me worm _Wu _ ua thou hast. suifei-ed, thou hast repented; I to be on the human bargain counter waiting _ boy_ I Ill’ A

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him, says a writer in the Spectator of 1712 that he had killed eight fat hogs for thi

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hogs- Puddings with a -pack of cards to \ _ _,_ ._ __ __ _ __/,

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household that is so unhappy as to conta_i_n _ part of the ban .ppcsm to the pub” Wu

\ / no children loses half the beauty of t

` festival It seems especially ntting that be described” ___ aexible stalk in "_ h

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22 lway that the eye could roll over awido ht iangle, sideways or up and down; and a W .._ strong string was led from ball to ball, so

are all planning how to make the childi- happy, should be this: Do we keep t Christ-Child sudiciently before their mind Not as a shadow of gloom and repressio

e . . he: ~ follow it. Sy ooirrniirrrim umn>'rY’s muiss. i n, A collar had to be designed and cut out

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in little sleeves and stuffed gloves, and stiff- of ened by sticks that reached inside of the

the original meaning of the feast, and fot-

Cliildren never forget their early Christ-

make them so full of joy that in after -life ' rim usnrrunsrios' or izrnmrr. the memory shall be a precious possessio

gilding all their childhood. The festival should be made diierent from every other

holiday, with its own peculiar observanc sacred to it alone. Music appropriate

the festal season, hymn and song and story that tell its glad tidings; games played at no other time; dainty dishes which only

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i,._ but I if-.useil my confeent; I could not eR1,"~ The Whitemringed angel looked at me press the sense of smell into service, all

sadly, but the black kept whispering in _ };!;gc§;1€_1gna:1hl_'2hwi;a;:a£]€O iglgle Web

in my ear. I saw nothing, I would see fvive for ymen _md women the

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aid, ' ` M111 atthe dimmed gaslight. Alice spoke her

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HUMPTY DUMPTY.

IA Droll Christmas Parlor Ping (eg gh; Children.

i “Adam Beds." tells how he mga; 3, “Humpty Dumpty." In the llrst lace, says Mr. Bede, his skeleton should he of barrel hoops, lashed together into an Q83 shape. and he must be large enough for me to get my head and arms inside of him. Some ancient barrels in our cellar were forthwith knocked to pieces and the hoops

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were twisted and tied and cut into some thing like the shape of an egg. So the skeleton was brought up from the cellar into the study, and the next thing was to

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answered silesia. might do, but muslin ll

not at all the thing.

While down town, I bought also a ball _

of Erin twine for the muscles, some rubber _elastic for antagonistic tandem, ii dozen ; screw-eyes to lead the muscles along the skeleton, and some brass wire to shape the

lips and eyelashes.

At home that evening the silesis was

_ sawed over the bagging, the result being

_ distinctly egg-like and satisfactory.

' ~ uUin>‘r!’s racz.

A Next a scheme for the construction of their eyes and their muscles was evolved. I In the iirst place. two small halls, of a lite proportional tothe size of the wire eye frames, and covered with some kind of _ white stui, were built up out of the family ragbag. Ablack pupil and abrown iris

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> “life very provoking to be called an egg,very.'° , ° aeifby sgiesm ef reaeefei iight The

e then attached to a backboard by what may

2*- that if one eye turned the other would

g of stif paper, to be fastened on above the

lt Arms and hands were built out of

barrel frame, so that manual gestures could ba executed from within. Legs and ` feet, with little stockings and large shoes, supported on bent wires, were attached to the lowest barrel hoop; and the beginning i

to of the end was approaching. i

11, I Of course long before this the question

had arisen: How is he to be worked T- but this had been duly considered. He _should sit on top of a_ folding screen,

to turned like the corner of a wall; his legs

should hang over the front, and behind the Screen, OH 8 box of appropriate size, I should stand with my head and arms inside

8 of the barrel frame.

THE PERFORMANCE.

r' At last everything was ready, When

t the footlights were lighted, and the hum ° ofthe growing audience had grown to a

mild roar, I was immersed in Humpty and assisted blindfold up on my box.

Alice came in and stopped lnsurprlse

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line; “How exactly like an egg he is!"

ely, resentfullyz ty “It’s very provoking to be called ax ogg ol -veryl" marking each syllable with a jerk

the eyes back to the imperturbable gaze at

gain. the gseiigiite. 'rhisweeeneugii,1i\.mp¢y

gm.; would act even before an audience, and

HN 012116! &m11SiI1g Sentences followed one

was audiences in roars of laughter, '

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The Bloom of the Chrlghngg 1”.,

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