The Mail-Journal, Volume 2, Number 43, Milford, Kosciusko County, 5 December 1963 — Page 10

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The Family Tree By MIKE BENNETT “You’ll feel different about it, Bill, once you see how pretty an old-fashioned tree will be. What on YOUR ' BLOOD! A

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earth are you stopping for?” Dad opened the car door. “Jack, you and Eddie stay in the car where it’s warm.” I .wasn’t about to get out in that cold. Eddie was fast asleep. There was silence for a long time. Then mother spoke up, “I’m sorry, Bill. I guess my idea is causing a lot of trouble . . . Now what are you stopping for?” “Everything’s fine. Just fine. Fine and dandy . . . except we have a flat tire.” Time Out I don’t know how long it took to change the tire. I fell asleep. When I woke up we were parked in front of a farm house and dad was on the porch talking to someone. The man pointed across the road to a steep hillside. Mother got out of the car. “I’d like to pick the tree.” Dad frowned, ‘i may have to go a long way up the hill. It’s steep, and slippery. I wouldn’t recommend it.” “But I have walking shoes on, and I'll be careful. Honest I will.”

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“Well, all right then. Come on.” "Us, too?” Eddie was awake now, leaning out the car window. “Sure, why not. Everybody help get the tree.” We examined every tree on the bottom of the slope. Dad made up his mind several times but mother would say,- “Let’s find a better i one.” We looked, higher and higher up the hill. We were almost to the top when it happened. Accident Mother was following the three of us and no one saw it. Suddenly we heard her gasp, looked around, and there she sat, looking helpless and, frightened, Dad dropped his axe and rushed to her side. “What happened?” “It‘s my ankle. I think I turned it.” ~~ Dad muttered something. I knew it wasn’t,, but it sure did sound like he said, “Merry Christmas.” It took several minutes to get mother down to the car. Dad had to go slow to keep from falling himself. Often, he would start to slip and he would look like an acrobat, supporting mother with

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one hand and trying to find something to hold on to with the other. The three of us were silent the whole time dad was back up the hill. When He returned he had the axe and what looked like the most beautiful Christmas tree I had ever seen. He tied it to the top of ! the car with some rope and soon Iwe were on our way homeward, still silent as church mice. It happened just before we got back to the main highway. The rope snapped suddenly. The tree

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slipped forward across the hood of the car. Forgetting the windows were closed to keep out the cold, dad tried to reach out and catch the tree and in that split second the car began to slide sideways, the two rear wheels coming to rest deep in the snow of the ditch beside the road. Dad walked two miles to the nearest farm house and a kindly ; old man brought two old mules to j pull us back on the road. The car

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the last few ornaments on the tree, under the expert guidance of mother, naturally. The footstool crumbled. That’s i dad sitting there by the fireplace. | Doc Smith says it’s a back sprain, nothing a fgw days off his feet won’t cure. That “Merry Christmas” sign above dad’s head he put there himself. Eddie, mom, and me know it

actually means “Don’t Disturb!” Mom says don’t worry, though, " dad will soon get into the spirit of things, especially when all the neighbors start coming in to see our tree. She called them all up to invite them and they’ll come. Mom says folks have to see for • themselves when you tell them you have the “most expensive tree in town.”

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