Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1950 — Page 17

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: 3 : * te ‘ : 3 Fl i . Bret Harte (1839-1902), tiv f Alb rN: Yu . Chimbley, Little Johnny ; Hea To Tuttleville in California as a peli Bn ny. X Yo WHS. om : : ; By TE. - dm oe : contents and sald: hopefully. “1 This is the last of a series of Christmas masterpieces of many

: x : , SPE, : ~ : : 4 Countries which The Times has presented, from the mew book, IT HAD been raining in the valley of the Sacramento. oe Teckon that $ Snough) i dont “The World's Greatest Christmas Stories,” edited by Eric Posselt you for a spell, and I'll be and just published by Preatice-Hall.

~The North Fork had overflowed its banks, and

£ ’ ‘ , J * Rattlesnak impassable. Th J back”; and vanished in the Mr. Harte was the writer of such Western classics as “The : e Creek was b The few boulders | closet with an old flannel shirt Luck of Roaring Camp” and “The Ohtcasts of Poker Flat.” He that had marked the summer ford at Simpson's Crossing and the whisky. ~ Is one of five authors representing the United States in“ the were obliterated by a vast sheet of water stretching to - : THE DOOR clad Sper halogy- Sn a the foothills. : : Ey fectly, and the following dia- Pasear. reyes (SONS ek Feared, ol BR; Tearing Iallen : tas ip , ble: or me in a minit, ; an ce e ‘ The up-stage was stopped at Granger's; the last OES Was dE IL round for 'em. What are you agile Dick, unharmed, regained mail had been abandoned in the tules, the rider swimming ache’ Worst?" starin’ at, Old Man?” he added, his seat before she .found her for his life. “An area,” remarked the Sierra Avalanche, “Sometimes over yar and with a forced laugh; “do you vicious legs again. And a mile A : : : , = ' X nder yer: but it's think I'm drunk?” + beyond them, at the foot of a with pensive local pride, “as large as the State of Massa- ’ pe Sometimes Ander el Layer The OM. Man might have long hill, was Rattlesnake chusetts is now under water.” ; rs most powerful from yer to ye bean I 3 . Creek : os SAauBCLL 18 i ] - SL AB Sly so yor, dad — - pardoned he PP On; : Nor was the weather any better in the foothills. The —T f ; A silence seemed to indicate a for Dick's eyes were humid and Dick knew that here was the nud lay dee : A : ei ; ===x brisk rubbing. Then Johnny: his crucial test of his ability to per- oy lay deep on the mountain road; wagons that ther =r | . © “Hevin’ a good time out yer, “Liquor ain't so plenty as form his enterprise, set his Let me pass, oF — : physical force nor moral objurgation could move from er — 4 dd” that, old Man. Now dont you 16th grimly. put his Knees well He og ney Sith the Se + i . : : : “Yes, sonny.” get up,” he continued, as the nto her flanks, and changed ence, Jo rose the evil ways into which they had fallen encumbered the “o.morrer's Christmas—ain't Old Man made a fnovement to his defensive tactics to brisk the air with a terrific bound, track, and the way to Simpson's Bar was indicated by < ito release his sleeve from Johnny's aggression. throwing the figure from her broken-down teams and hard swearing “Yes, sonny. How does she hand. “Don't you mind man- Byilied and maddened, Jovita Dit With a single shake of her And f : 0 feel now?" 7 ners. Sit. jest whar you be, I'm pegan the descent of ‘the hil, Vicious head, and charged with nd further on, cut off and inaccessible, rained upon “Better. Rub a little furller goin’ in a jiffy. Thar, that's Here the artful Richard pre- deadly malevolence down om : and bedraggled, smitten by high winds and threatened down. Wot's ‘Chrismuss.. any- them now.” : tended to hold her her in with the impediment before her. i i oT : ay? Wot’s it all about?” s stentatious objurgati : n oath, a pistol-shot, horse by high water, Simpson's Bar, on the eve of Christmas NE rE) al THERE WAS a low tap at well feigned cries of alarm. and highwayman rolled over in Day, 1862, clung like a swallow's nest to the rocky "This exhaustive definition was ~ the door. Dick Bullen opened it — = C0 (TS the road, and the next moment apparently satisfactory, for quickly, nodded “Good-night"” Jovita was a hundred yards

entablature and splintered capitals of Table Mountain, and shook in the blast.

AS NIGHT shut down on the settlement, a few; lights gleamed through the mist from the windows of cabins

on either side of the highway, now crossed and gullied by lawless streams and swept by marauding winds.

; Jovieta instantly ran away. Nor : : t is host, and diss é 4 ’ ay ood right arm “The 01d Man would have fol. need I state the time made in 5". Prt Ihe SUC TCC SRG lowed him but for the hana Uh descent; it is written in the 10 aronped helplessly at his that still unconsciously grasped Shromicies a Simpson's Bar. side, ; ? ‘ his sleeve. H Yn allv cnoug at in another mo- speed ‘disengaged Sit was. smal, ment, as it seemed to Dick, she, MULOL SICUOR (SO CRCE. weak, and 3 _ . was splashing, on the over- 5 po ape because ewan sno, owed Danke ‘of Ratdemake hand. But 1 fev moments Itty weak, and iated he Creek. ee ee ; emaciate e tighten the saddlegirths that

there was a silent interval of rubbing. Presently Johnny again: “Mar sez that everywhere else but yer everybody gives things to everybody Christmuss, and then she jist waded" inter you, She sez thar's a man they call Sandy Claws, not a

Happi ; iot ; Kpec - Happily most of the population were gathered at _ white man, you know, but a Changed his mind, and. draw. . am Expected, ihe MO” had slipped in the onset. This Thompson's store, clustered around a red-hot stove o Chinemin, comes down IDE his chair closer to the bed, M¢ : quired Car’ jn his crippled condition took : p : ) ; . kind rested his head upon it. . ried her beyond the point of tl He had fear of y at which they silently spat in some accepted sense of re ein Aoi gives things to In this defenseless attitude DAIKIDG, and. holding her well iil il Cong up he saw social communion that perhaps rendered conversation : ; Te chillern—boys like me. Puts the potency of his earlier pota- '0BSther for a mighty leap. they ypa¢ the eastern stars were als | MAOessaly: oe ence to thelp host, who came up added in the dark, apparently em 1B ete bites! abe . (ried. to Signs Surprised him. he. Too swiftly flowing current. A few Feady Tg an A ee dar , most methods of diversion had long since panting in rear. , from under the bedclothes— : y eves £ moments of kicking, wading, : 1 » “ " lay upon me, Easy now pop, eYeS, reappeared, faded again, : hostly whiteness, and now been exhausted on Simpson's Bar; high water had pron aTe Ye better oid on An ART TWO Whar are you rubbin’ to wept out SHY left Bim asibep. Fin eS Dick py 2 Stood out blackly against ® 8 2 t h : » thet's a mile from the place. eantime Cc ullen, ‘tlos- lighter sky. Day was upon him, suspended the regular occupations on gulch and on river, 2nd see that things is all rignt.” BERS WAS an embarras- gp. yt made shat up, didn't Ing the door, confronted his PNK. ; Ee riety insorhed 10 8 an a Sonseq went lack of money and whiskey had taken. giference he was far from thi . 3 a ae ae Jest. A aggrewats me he Sompailions. “Are you ready?” HE ROAR He. Taltica SNES Ved: Be forgot the pal e zest from illegi : n ou? Don't rub thar... be . - * of his wound, and mounting e most illegitimate recreation. . feeling. The suggestion was fire. Even with the appetizing dad?” Ready.” said Dick. “What's Snake Creek to Red Mountain again dashed on toward Rattle

Even Mr. Hamlin was graciously accepted, the door banquet before them, it seemed

the time?” was tolerably level. Either the 1g peering into ‘the faces of his Opened and closed on the host. ag if they might again fall into IN THE great quiet that > snake Creek. But now Jovita's

Ta fain y “Past t a .. plunge in ‘Rattlesnake Creek to leave the Bar with companions. and the crowd, leaning their - the despondency of Thompson's seemed to have fallen upon the «gp 8 o weve: Was the reply. : : breath came broken by gasps, s were not so $50 in his pocket—the only “Well, I don’t know,” re- backs against the. wall and grocery when the voice of the house the sigh of the near ou take It =it 5 nigh = Dick reeled iB his saddle; 4d vire grandsons amount actually realized of the >Pohded Tom Flynn with some cowering under the eaves, (jd Man, incautiously lifted, pines and the drip of leaves piper ang yon” ound: wip i brighter and brighter grew, the - n second place large sums won by him in the cheerfulness. “Pr aps we may. waited and listened. came deprecatingly from the without was very distinct. “I reckon” ret 4d Dick igi SKY. | 2 a: J tas ; © successful exercise of his ardu- ut how about your wife, Old = For a few moments there was kitchen. Johnny's voice, too, was 10W- ghont)y “Whapre Srmed ick Ride TY Ty ous profession. Man? What does She say tg Jt?" Bo und but the gripping of “Certainly! Thet's so. In ered as he went. on, pout Jou “Bill and Jack's holdin her linger; 0 day ay ot “Ef 1 was asked,” he re-.. THE OLD ves, and the course they is. A gang o' lazy take on now, for I'm gettin’ ,¢ ne croggin’” 3 FOR THE LAST few rods er ; : “marked somewhat later—ef I His LD NAN JDesitated, guis 2nd Bee of wrestling qgrunken loafers, and that ar all right fast. Wot's the boys “Let ‘em hold on a minit there was a roaring in his ears, y fled England ' was asked to pint out a purty heen a happy one, and the fact ughs above them. Then the pick Bullen's the ornariest of doin’ out thar? longer,” said Dick. Was it exhaustion from loss of tomic secrets.) little village where a retired was known to Simpson's Ads men became uneasy, and whis- 4) Didn't hev no more sabe The Old Man partly opened 3 . . _ = blood, or what? He was dazed “hi indianapolis Times sport as didn’t care for money His first wife delica pered suggestion and suspicion than to come round yar with the door and peered through. HE TURNED and : and giddy as he swept down the ] “15 7oould exercise. hisself. fi nt , a ate, passed from. the one to the sickness in the house and no His guests were sitting there th 3 NED and re-entered had dampened her baleful fire, hill. and did not recognize his )RIVE IN! 8 and lively, Td. say Simpson's pretty little woman, had suf- other. provision sociably enough, and there e house softly. By the light or the art which led to it had + 8 dings. Had he pRe the TIT A ya 30n 8 fered keenly and secretly from “Reckon she’s caved in his “ = Le , ‘were a few silver coins and a of the guttering candle and dy- shown her the superior wicked- surroun ope 3 s this Rattle= ; . : a large y een a e jealous suspicions of her head the first lick!” “Decoyed Thet's what I said: ‘Bullen, jean buckskin purse on the ng fire he saw that the door ness of her wider, for Jovita WFOnNg roa id a SPECIAL rr pe FTE Jay Fait dine : husband, until one day he in- him inter the tunnel and barred SZ I, ‘It'S crazy drunk you are, i ple “Betin' on suthin'— Of the little room was open. He no longer wasted her surplus = Snake Creek? tthe: brawling . . As Mr. Hamlin's aa eon Tired the Whole Bai 10 is hobse him up, likely,” Got him down oF ig dle hime > some little game or ‘nother. flepped toward it on tiptoe and energy in wanton conceits. ak was ht o . Lawiing od, . i . je i - ' ’ ¥ Ria 9 4h . . * 5 ”" PS) : ! p - sisted mainly of female adults, riving, the party en the — ang sing’ ou a - Protably ‘be you a man, Staples, and ig Bl r aed The Old Man had fall nee ne bucked but It Was before had risen, more than - this remark is quoted rather petite creature quietly engaged ng 2u he aocve Off wo: spect. to raise hell under mY. his rubbi Y 2nd in his chat: a allen back from force of habit; once she ' g 1 iq {ts volume, and now fo show the breadth of-his in her household duties, and re- aan 3 €leay the door boys! For roof ‘and invalids’ lyin" round?’ hi SE take a hand and - less feet a ae is help TE ira from. pan rolled a swift and resistless : cmor Bosom ihe Sxact extent tired abashied and discomfited. door slowly opened, and a voice But they would Some they win some money,” said John- with his collapsed shoulders, at the crossing of the country Fiver between bine and. Rattles 3 ons opis, a 2 ae sensitive woman did said, “Come in out 0’ the wet.” would. Thet's wot you must ny reflectively after a pause. and his hat pulled over Is eyes. road. Hollows, ditches, gravelly ai . th Hirst time that night HOWBEIT, the unconscious nok easily recover from the The voice was neither that spect o’ suc i trash as lays The Old Man glibly repeated Beside him, on a narrow wooden deposits, patches of freshly or ie heart k within ‘objects of this satire sat that k of this extraordinary out- of the Old Man nor of his wife. round the Bar. what was evidently a familiar bedstead, lay Johnny, muffled springing grasses, flew from Richard's: heart. .san

a : e. It was with difficulty she ) . A burst of laughter from the - formula, that if Johnny would tightly in a blank hint, The river, the mountain, “evening in the listless a rag It was the voice of a §mall boy, \ » y a blanket that hid beneath her rattling hoofs. She begotten of idleness 3 apathy regained her equanimity suffi- its weak treble broken by that men followed this unfortunate wait until he struck it rich in all save a strip of forehead and began to smell unpleasantly, the quickening east, swam be

of. gE ciently to release her lover from reternatural hoarseness which exposure. Whether it was over- the tunnel. he'd have lots of a few curls damp with perspira- twi fore his eyes. He shut them 14 Boor Delo dS pre] cealed, and escape with him, habit of premature self-asser- the Old Man's irrate companion “Yes,” said Johnny, “but you Dick Bullen made a step for- abatement of her strength or Jrief interval, by some Sa . arouse them. Dick Bullen alone She left a boy of three years tion can give. had just then exhausted all don't. And whether you strike ward, hesitated,” find glanced speed. : tastic mental process, the little

to comfort her bereaved hus- x other modes of expressing her it or I win it, it's about the over his shoulder into the de- room at Simpson’s Bar and the

band. The Old Man's present IT WAS f a small contemptuous . indignation, I same. It's all luck. But it's gserted room. Everything was By 2 o'clock he had passed figures of the sleeping father wife had been his cook. She was boy that De ee all cannot say, but a back door mighty cur'o’s about Chrismuss quiet. With a sudden Pesglution Red Mountain and begun the and son vose upon him. large, loyal, and aggressive. ‘face that might have héen Was suddenly slammed with —ain’t it? Why do they call it he parted his hugh mustaches descent to the plain. He opened his eyes wildly, Before he could reply, Joe pretty, and even refined. but great violence. Chrismuss?” . with both hands and stooped At half past two Dick rose cast off his coat, pistol, boots, Dimmick suggested with great that it was darkened by evil A moment later and the Old Perhaps, from some In- over the sleeping boy. But even in his stirrups with a great -and saddle, bound his precious directness that it was the “Old knowledge from within, and Man reappeared, haply uncon- stinctive deference to the over- ag he did so a mischievous shout. Stars were glittering pack tightly to. his shoulder, Man's house,” and that, invok- dirt and hard experience trom scious of the cause of the late hearing of his guests, or from bpjlast, lying in wait, swooped through the rifted clouds, and grasped the bare flanks of Jo-.. - = ing the Divine Power, if the - without. He had a blanket hilarious outburst, and smiled mm

paused in the act of scraping

z = : x -down-the-chimney rekindled the —Pe¥ond: him, out-of the plain. vita with his. bared knees, and rh — ew i case were his own, he would fn-' around his shoulders, and had blandly. i \ hearth, and lit up the room FOSe two spires, a flagstaff, and with a shout dashed into the 5 Lor on vite whom he pleased, even if in evidently just risen from his “The old woman thought / with a shameless glow from 2 straggling line of black yellow water. out his pipe, and lifted his so doing he imperiled his salva- bed. she'd jest run over to Mrs, y/ which Dick fled in bashful ter- OPjects:™ A cry rose from the opposite head, but no other one of the tion. : “Come in,” he repeated, “and McFadden'’s for a sociable call,” ror. Dick jingled his spurs and © bank as the:head of a man and group indicated any interest in, “In course. Certainly. Thet's = don’t make no noise. The Old he explained with jaunty indif- His companions were already swung his riata, Jovita bounded horse struggled for a few moor recognition of, the man who it.” said the Old Man with a Man's in there talking to mar,” ference, as he took a seat at waiting for him at the crossing. forward, and in another mq- ments against the battling curs entered. sympathetic frown. “Thar's no he continued, pointing to an ad- the board. : Two of them were struggling in ment they swept into Tuttle- rent, and then were swept away It was a figure familiar trouble about thet. It's my own jacent room which seemed to be x = # the darkness with some strange Ville, and- drew up before thé amidst uprooted trees and

misshapen bulk, which as Dick Wooden piazza of “The Hotel whirling driftwood.

- enough to the company, and house, bullt every stick on’ it a kitchen, from which the Old ODDLY ENOUGH It needed came nearer took the semblance ©f All Nations.”

known in St i Bar as myself. Don’t you be afeared o"° Man's voice came in deprecating this untoward incident to re-

some vague sense of incon- ¥

# = THE OLD MAN started and =

4 “The Old Man” A man of her, boys. She may cut up a t ccents, * ” lieve the embarrassment that STUity, the Old Man's reply Was ¢ 4°great yellow ho ; : perhaps 50, years; grizzled and rough ye oz ay ap ati A aT te De he added was beginning to be felt by the * 50 10W as to be Inaudible be- ¥ x a Tse: nt woke/ The fire on the hearth . ; scant of Hair, but still fresh she'll come around.” who h : : rt d their natural audac- Yond the room. IT W WHAT transpired that night was dead, the candle in the : sa : ) » 0 had caught him up, blanket party, an “Yes,” said Johnny, with AS the mare. She was at yttieville is - trict! t bo Ia, Yyouthfy of complexion. 8 ae ts au ic lu umn ek ARG all.-and. ef pepeo-ity- returned. with-their host. :. saat i sR TS sure OLR - pretty: sy un pin Sa At LEV] 8 hot Strictly a ou er..J flickering. In 118... nT Sees em Fall of Feady But" not very: con ASCYET Dik Bi fier rind 3 al x Ul Asa anlings eeolile I -“ it oPate * as “some sight abatement SHER Romer . PickureFrom part of “this record. Briefly I Socket. and Somebody ve 8 rape % = EE powerful sympathy, with a oracle and leader of Simpson's mn re, Jet go © _ terest, “I've heerd o’ him be- ; e to, her rising may state, however, that after ping at the door. He opened it, power 5) _W a ag [ Of Simpson's o’ me, you d—d old fool. d’ ye the convivialities of that eve , haunches; from her arched spine : ts y Bar. had ye fore. Thar, that’lt do, dad. I Pine “Jovita had h b 1 : chameleon-Hke apiitude for tak- k not spoken. He now hear?” . ning. The inquisitive reader will 4.0. Joh d 1 hidden by the stiff machillas of Syita bad: heen handed ‘over iE Tell ‘pack with a €7Y bee Ns ing on the shade and color of 100k his pipe from his lips: Thus adjured, Dick Bullen accept the statement that the on Now Wan EE is a Mexican saddle, to her thick, '° 3 SleePy hostler, whom. she fore the. dripping, half-naked

contiguous moods and feelings. “Old Man, how's that Yer lowered Johnny to the ground conversation was characterized yer planket. So. Now,” he Straight bony legs, there was at once kicked into unpleasant - figure that reeled. against the ;

© He had evidently just left Johnny gettin’ on? Seems {o me tellectual exal- : | some hilarious companions, and he didn’t look so peart last by. the same intellectua added in a muffled whisper, NOt a line of equine grace.

consciousness, Dick sallied out doorpost. with the barkeeper for a tour . “Dick?”

th tation, the same cautious Tev- ‘git down yer by me till I go In her half-blind but wholly “ ph 414 Bok Xt fest RUBICE Ihe Srav. . Se 1 Seq un eh the bluff erence, the same fastidious deli- = agjeep.” To re himself ee viclous white eyes, in the pro- of the Sleeping town, : unt Ih . awake Yet. a hei up, . ut clapped Didn't ‘seem to 3 natn rg cacy, the same rhetorical pre- obedience, he disengaged one truding under-lip, in her mon. Lights still gleamed from a “Dry 0 Arid Tool! Get ulder of the nearest man -Ddut setts 10 Saks Much iio, cision, and the same logical and hand from the blanket, ang, * Strous color, there was nothing fe saloons and gambling “C0 Hb. YOU OIC 100 jocularly, an w seit termat in was a gang coherent discourse somewhat grasping his father’s sleeve, but ugliness and vice. houses; but, avoiding these, . ue Some his ey, quick!” The into a vacant Shai. Beet thi a hei yu. p ay- later in the evening, which dis- again composed himself to rest. “Now, then” said Staples, they stopped before several e an : ang returned with : Smiley. 1 kinder th Up the ver sand SR tinguish similar gatherings of a 8.8 “stand cl'ar of her heels, boys, ¢losed shops, and by per-. i nh emply e! Dick would - is TT od ~ how he'd hougnt o Johnny, and LST the masculine sex in more civil- FOR SOME moments the Old and up with you. Don't miss Sistent tapping and judicius have sworn, but his strength ' 28g ig a a El th oo Mayve wow, SSS Tm TS od localities and under more Man waited patiently, then the your first holt of her mane, and OUtCry roused the proprietors Was not equal to the occasion. man in the Bar? Well, Jim was | be In the way ef he wus with favorable auspices. unwonted stillness of the house mind ye get your off stirrup (rom their beds, and made He staggered, caught at the, ‘just telling the richest yarn sick? a smothered laugh, while It was nearly midnight when excited his curiosity, and with- quick. Ready!” them unbar the doors of the handle of the door, and mo-

fw eee shout—" The father, evidently touched the men, entering quietly, out moving from the bed he | magazines and expose their tioned to the Old Man. ; 3 the festivities were interrupted. : There was a le ; gaz 4 expose . their " » n- ri ap, a scram : hah ; : Sr otal” 1 OL Cnet Bete ond “ras Hoh aa Dik Baller, bolt, Cs SRA Uh G00 SE wing Henge a Soin, 3 0 "rs ero any Take WHE “A particular skunk,” the considerate delicacy of oy which occupied’ the center of 108 up his hand. It was the "= 0 hd ‘oo retreat of the crowd, a circle ~~ Sometimes they were niet by ye ¥. . A Py added another in sepulchral speaker, hastened to as the of the room. . querulous voice of Johnny from Rh. yoom. of flying,-hoofs, two springless Curses, but oftener by interest . ay My pule s sure leaps that jarred the earth, a And some concern in their THE OLD MAN unstrapped .

To his infinite surprise it was

‘ his adjacent closet: “O dad!” accents. him that Johnny was better, Johnny then gravely‘ pro- arose dark and deserted. But even ; ; y : h : x SILENCE followed these INS. that: & Wittle fun might ‘itcoded 10 a cupboard and i nthe Close, then a smouldering log on the Ai hia 20 Jingle of thurs, a Ty a the pack. and aid 1t befors the . a liven him up.” brought out several articles, Presently. ‘he reappeared. “His hearth broke, and by the up- eh ge, an en the voice of drink R exhausted man. . "st ; positive stdiements. The ou Whereupon Dick rose, shook = Which he deposited on the table. sen Y app on agin “Pringing blaze he saw the fig- 0 eT. in the dark. TOC batore this Open it, quick. io : Mans yale wie Mselr. as ying, “I'm are Nhiskey. And sack. bad” he explained’ “and ‘he ure. of Dick Bullen. sitting. by “Don't take the lower pg pleasantry was given over, and He a so with trembling fin - changed: Pry or he wy her Be " the way, Old Man: es red 4 herons, wants rubbin’” He lifted the the ying, embers, back unless you're Bera with a small waterproof bag pera a ing oui _ Jew reflectively, after a pause, “‘cer- with a mermaglf. lod the way ~~ He took a bite of the latter demijohn of whisky from the Dick started, rose. and came [OT time! Don't hold her in ©f India-rubber strapped on his enough, goodness knows, “ tainly sort of & skunk and howl, and darted out into the. . OP his way to the table. “And table and Shouk it. h on somewhat unsteadily toward gown hi Well be at the fora Shoulders, Dick returned to the right with paint and tinsel, at a a moment, wn, i pasand th rough gh’ i ok TE eoopal pa Routh 3 ti ol HE prop ani Wha 's the boys?” said the GO! IS! Moh Yuh And then he spran to the meh RE Bweolsens: ys as in painful contemplation of ay he he . 2 ven ha mal and laugh. So did the others. oud : ye - : A splash, a spark struck saddle and dasted AE the ruined DY rater and on thees "Bmp tm Sent Ar hope to P00 OHO ahew me i mh non a i OE ee nt ot io ily | art nel wat w chet po The action was repeated by the 90 2 ut I dows admire O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM. 04, a0 Dick was gun, the Nghia, the back Wnt of Ti dont ook. like ‘auch : : and elbowing each other “now wade in, : 4 : ah ds APART THRER ouses, the spires, and the flag- that's a fact.” said Dick. “3 before the proprietor afeard; I don't PemumsBacoms Be : ING, O MUSE, the ride of Staff sank into the earth be- ' ... “But it's the best we as t - : : bd Laws I. Reoums S i Bullen! Sing, O hind him again and were lost . a » ‘em

- Muse of chivalrous men} the 1 the distance. :

sacred quest, the doughty \ Lol woh the battery of low churls, the THE STORM had cleared fearsome ride and gruesome away, the air was brisk and of of Simp- cold, the outlines of adjacent -

landmarks. were distinct, but. it was half-past four before Dick

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