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That he was s burglar, there could not be the slightest doubt. When Ronnie- having disc ivered i at. as usual, he had left his nioe in the kitchen, left Madge and returned to the house, he enlercd through the open french-windows of the sitting-room, and, as he was wearing tennis-shoes, he made no noise. And there was the burglar, with the pantry door open, and one hand actually groping within.

"He who steals trash! But he who pinches my Christmas dinner . . . said Ronnie -and, simultaneously he took a flying leap onto the bur- glars broad back. _

The fight that ensued was a brief one. ‘Ihey rolled over and over on the floor, like a. couple of fighting cats, at first -then broke away, got onto their feet, and exchanged some real punches. Ronnie's filial caught the burglar on the point of t-he Jaw, and knocked him slaD into the WiIitlSCil‘ arm-chair, where he

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0 cciiic, all ye faithful, Jo_villi and triumphant, .0 come ye, O come ye to Bethle-

i~ ~ . Ccniccnaiiid behold Him eorn the King oi angels;

0 come, let us adore I-lim, O come, let us adore Him, 0 come, let us adore Him, Christ th-s 10rd!

God of God,

Light of Light,

m! He abhors not the womb;

Very God, _

Begqtten. not created:

0 come, let us adore Him.

Bing, choirs of 511K918,‘ ‘

Sing in exultatlon,

Sing, all ye citizens of heaven aobve;

I Virgin's

' Glory to God

in the highest; O come. let us adore Him.

see how the shepherds. Summnned to His cradle, moving their flocks. draw nigh iriili lowly fell‘; We too will thither

_ Bent! our Joyful footsteps;

0 come, let us adore Him, Yea, 10rd we greet Thee, Born this happy morning, Jesu. to Thee by glory given; Word 0i the Father,

Now in flesh appearing;

0 come, let us adore Him,

0 little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie; Above thy deep and dreaoiless sleep .

The silent stars go by:

Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light;

The hopes and fears of all

YCRIS Are met in thee tonight-

Ior ohrist is born of» Mary: And gathered auabove," While mortals sleep, the angels K9?!) . .

‘Their watch o! wondering love.

O morning stars, together

Proclnim the holy birth,

And praises sing to God the King, And peace to men on earth!

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_ How silently, how silently,

The wondrous gift is given! So God imparts to human hesris

i The b18551!!! of his heaven.

No ear may hear his cooling; But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him.

still The dear Christ enters in.

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’ ‘Pa-wry part of every gala day.

Siull-rii boars heads, peacocks, geese, fliillils. pheasants, mince pie,

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Hark! the herald angels sin G1 to the new-born Kings Pea on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled. Joyful, all ye nations, rise

Join the triumpil of the skies; With the angelic host proclaim Christ is born in Bethlehem.

Hark! the herald angels sing Glory to the new-born King. Christ, by highest Heaven adored,

Christ, the everlasting Lord,

Late in time beheld him come, Offspring o! a Virgin's womb. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see! Hail, the Incarnate Diety! Pleased as Man with man to dwell, Jesus, our Emmanuel. '

Hark! the heaven-born Prince of Peace!

Hail, the son of righteousness! Light and life to all he brings, Risen Wlth healing in his wings. Mild he lays his glory by,

Born that man no more may die, Born to raise the sons of earth; Born to give them second birth.

Hark! the herald angels sing.

It came upon the midnight clear, The!» Eiimous song of old, From angels bending near the

earth To touch their harps oi gold: Peace on the earth. good-will to men

From Heaven's. all-gracious King: The world in solemn stillness lily— 'I‘o hear the angels sing.

Still through the cloven skies they

come With peaceful wings unfurled; And still their heavenly music v _ floats O'er all the weary world; Above its sad and lowly plains They bend on hovering wing, And ever o'er its Babel sounds The blessed angels sing.

Yet with the woes of sin and st-fe

ii The world has suffered long;

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. rolled Two thousand years of wrong;

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not The words of peace they brhigs- 0 listen now. ye men of strife, And hear thae angels sing,

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Whose forms are bending low, ' Who foil along the climbing way With painful steps and slow: Look now, for glad and golden

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For lo, the days are hastening on,

13y prophets sxn oi old,

When with the ever-circling years

Bhall come the time ioretol

When the new heaven and earth shall own

The Prince of Peace their King.

And the whole world send back the song

Which now the angels sing.

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remained seated. After a. moment he waved a hand feebly:

"All right!" he said. "I give you best! I've had enough!"

“Good!" id Ronnie, who was

sa also panting —only not so badly — Wind-

as he dropped into the other sor chair.

He looked at his capture. The fellow was roughly dressed. but his tweeds looked good. For the rest his hair was rumpled, his lip cut, and one eye rap dly closins. bili- he had a rather distinguished face. Clean-cut and bronzed-thc face of c. traveller rather man a criminal.

It was he who broke the silence:

‘It's age that beats us all, young man!" he observed. “Had I been Just ten years younger . . . . .!"

" or iucki" responded Ron- nie. with that rather infectious grin of his "Had I been Just ten years older. . . . .!"

“Quitei" said the burglar. "But, things being as they are, what's the next mcve?"

"The conventional one, I suppose -send for th police!"

“Hump! You don't look con- ventional. either! And would you like to eat your Christmas dinner in goal?"

"I should not! But that's why I don't burgle places!"

"Perhaps so —very sound logic. But —have you ever been really hungry?" .

Ronnie laughed. '

“I should say so-Pm an artist!"

“Then you should know that huii- ger, like other forms of necessity, is ‘the mother of more things that invention!"

“You mean-you were hungry?"

"I still am —owlng to the fact that you didn't play the game.

“I beg your pardon?" g

"So you should! Who the deuce would expect a man to be walking about in tennis shoes at Christmas time?"

Ronnie laughed again.

"Sorry! But the fact is my only other pair are at the menders!"

"I see! Well, what about sending for those police?"

Ronnie scratched a towslcd head, a. trifle doubtfully:

"Well, the point is —I don't quite see liow to do it. We're cut off the phone, at the moment, and I don't feel like lugging you out in the street to find a copper —you'd pro- bably bash me and hop it!"

"Naturally!" The burglar smiled‘

a slightly crooked smile, owing to his damaged lip. Ronnie gave a sudden whoop:

"My word!" he cried. "A brain- wave! Say, stay where you are for a second, there's a good chap!"

He dashed out of the room and up the stairs to his little studio, W118i‘? matched up pencil and sketch-book. It never occurred to him, in his excitement. that the burglar might make his getaway ~wliile he was gone —iherefore lie was not in the least surprised ‘o find him still in the same position when he got Back.

“Just hold that position -there's a good chap!" he said, and dropping into his chair once more, he com- menced to sketch furiously, with sniift but sure strokes of his pen- c

After a few minutes he said:

“Now. get that smile again, will you? Like you did Just now 1 . . Oh, fine! Hold it for a. moment

. . . . .!"

The smile, as a matter of fact, had not been due to Ronnie's request so much as to the entrance of a third party, to wit Madge, who was Ronnie's wife. and who had become fired of waiting for him outside. She was a very personable young woman, was Madge, and see- ing what she imagiiied to be a. vis- itor. had mechanically smiled that sunny smile of hers which so few l“ le could resist. Naturally en- ough the Burglar had answered it -and given Ronnie what he want-

Now, the rough sketch finished. ho sprang to his feet:

"Here, ltfadgkius!" he cried, es- citedly -.-"I.ook at this! Can't you see it, when I've done it in colour? ‘rliat damaged face, with the wist- ful sort of twisted smile? I shall call it: . . . .But. Unbowed. . .1 -after the song, you know!

Madge glanced at the study, and then at the subJect of it —and gave a little cry oi concern:

"But Ronnie, dear -your friend is hurt!"

Ronnie. coming back to earth with a. bang. scratched at his fowslcwi head.

"Well. I-er-as s matter of fact, the gentlemen is not exactly a friend of mine -and -er—f'm a- fraid that I hurt him! He happens to be s burglar! I caught him red- handed. . . .!"

Madge sniffed scomfuliy.

‘That's no reason why you should have been a brute over it, anyway!" she mapped. “Now you run out and get a piece of raw steak, while I let some hot water!"

"Don't be silly, dear -!t's police- man we want! W!!! you . . . -!"

"No, f won't”.interrupted Madge. in an awful voice. "Kindly do as I ask you. Ronnie!"

Ronnie looked at the Burglar, who smiled faintly but sympa-

theticaly. and shrugged. Then he turned to the door -but turned back immediately.

“But, I say -ycu know our cred- it'a bust at the butcher's!"

"Very well, then -oay for it! W» don't need much!"

Ronnie sivhri. and went out. Th‘: time he was quite sure that dur-

his his absence the burglar would

take himself on, so he didn't get the steak. He Just went as far as

Madse wounds . Ronnie cursed, and went back to the butcher's for the steak. . Madge had a definite passion for nursing and coddlins all sorts of waifs and strays, and, usually hav- ing to be content with dogs or cats, thoroughly enjoyed herself with a real, lie-man patient. But, cv tu- ally. she left the burglar wth a quarter-of-a-pound of rumpsteak bandaged to his blackened‘ eye, a patch of sticking- plaster on his

out lip, his head resting on the.

best silk cushion, and his feet up on a chair, Ronnie tackled her, somewhat indlgnantly.

"Really, kid, the way you look after a burglar —well, it makes me wish. I was one, that's all!"

“Oh, you!" said Madge, with melancholy scorn. "You're never ll! -in fact you're the most obscene- ly healthy person I ever knew!"

“l-luhl" grunted Ronnie. Then: "Well. I suppose I'd better go and Get that policeman, since you won't!"

"Policeman?" Madge stared at him. “What for?"

‘Didn't I tell you that fellow is a burglar -that I caught him red- handed?"

‘Don't be a frabJous ass, Ronnie! Why, he's a most. charming man! Besides, what on earth would a burglar want in this house, any- way? We've got nothing worth stealing!"

"Oh, yes we have! There's the Christmas dinner in the larder. and that's what he was after! After all the trouble we've had in getting it, tool‘:

"Christmas dinner? He was after food‘ then? Which means that. ‘he poor fellow's hungry! Ronnie, if you dare to go within ten yards 0:‘ a policeman —I'll never speak to you again."

Ronnie gasped --the'n sighed. The Burglar (who, in the next room, could hear every word) smiled that twisted smile again.

Madge swept in to him.

"You know," she said, gently and Diilillileiveiy. "I'm afraid you won't be well enough to go home. after the snaking-up you've had — so I'm Just going to make the spare- room up for you, and I'm afraid you‘ll have to spend Christmas with us. if you don't mind?"

"Mind? -My dear lady, I shall be delighted! As a matter of fact, l have nowhere to g0, and, until af- t?!‘ Boxing Day no money. And so

"Why, that's splendid!" cried Madge. Then, realizing that her speech sounded a little unsym- pathetic, corrected herself hastily. "What I mean, oi course, is that it's all fixed up, then!"

As a matter of fact the little Christmas Party of three was an uncommonly i "v one. It seemed that the Burglar had once been on the stage. and he could do all sorts of things —play the piano, sing, tell funny stories and what-not He was, in fact, literally the life and soul of the party.

On the morning after Boxing Day he asked if he could return and have dinner with them that night. Madge said he might, and Ronnie, who had taken a great fancy to the fellow was en- thusiastic in his agreement.

It was only aft/er he had gone that the young pair realized they had no food left in the house, and no money!

Ronnie went 011' d, try and raise some. He tried all t the day after Boxing Day 1

digent authors and artists. At six o'clock he returned tired and dis- heiusiened.

And then, before he had time to explain his lack of success to Madge, a large van pulled up at the door, and in came hampers containing a magnificent cold collation —i.ri- cluding a dozen bottles of expensive champs ne!

"What the deuce! gaspe Ronnie.

"Not at all!" said Madge. "It's the Burglar —I told you he wasn't one. didn't I?"

And when the Burglar himself arrived back, he did not deny that he was the author of the feast. They did it full justice, with laughter and song, and when at last, the Burglar rose to go, he made a, little speech:

“You young people thought you were entertaining a Burglar -and very nicely you did it. too! But actually, 'twas an angel you were feasting, unawares! Ronnie —for- give the apparent familiarity, which is excusable when I fell you that I am actually your Uncle George from Australia —y0ur father's er- rant brother —black-sneep of the family! Ronnie, you said the oth- er day ii‘ you only had five hund- red pounds capital you could make good, didn't you? Well. in that envelope is five hundred pounds- get, on with it! For me. I'm Oii. now, back to —Australial And so ._good-bye. children. and. even

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Peacock Dinner English Custom Many Years Ago

Fashions in Christmas dinners come and o. In olden clays at a Christmas feast in England, next in importance to the boar's head as a Christmas dish was the pea- cock. To prepare the bird for the table was a task entailing no little trouble. The skin was first care- fully stripped cfi with the plumage adhering. The bird was then roast- ed; when done and partially cool- ed it was sewed up again in its feathers, its beak painted with gilt and so sent to the table. some times the whole body was covered with leaf gold and a piece cf cot- ton saturated with spirits placed in its beak and lighted before the carver commenced operations. This "food for lovers and meat for lords" was stuffed with spices and sweets, basted with yolks of eggs and served with plenty of gravy.

The noble bird was not served by common hands; that privilege was reserved for the lady guests most distinguished by birth or beauty. One of them carried it into the dining hall to the sounds of music. the rest of the ladies following in due order. The dish was set down before the master oi the house or his most honored guest. The latest instance of peacock eating record- ed was at a dinner given to Wil- liam IV, when duke of Clarence by the governor of Grenada.

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