eaten it all at last yet every one had had enough and the youngest in particular were in sage and to the eyebrows but now the plates being changed by miss mrs left the room alone � too nervous to bear witness � to take the up and bring it in suppose it should not be done enough suppose it should break in turning out suppose somebody should have got over the wall of the and stolen it while they were merry with the goose � a supposition at which the two young be livid all sorts of horrors were supposed a great deal of steam the was out of the copper a smell like a washing day that was the cloth a smell like an eating house and a cook s next door to each other with a s next door to that that was the in half a minute mrs entered � flushed but smiling proudly � with the like a cannon ball so hard and firm smoking hot and with christmas stuck into the top oh a wonderful bob said and calmly too that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by mrs since their marriage mrs said that now the weight was off her mind she would confess she had her doubts about the quantity of flour everybody had something to say about it but nobody said or thought it was at all a small for a large family it would have been flat to do so any would have blushed to hint at such a thing at last the dinner was all done the cloth was cleared the hearth swept and the fire made up the compound in the being tasted and considered perfect apples and were put upon the table and a full of on the fire then all the family drew round the hearth in what bob called a circle meaning half a one and at bob s elbow stood the family display of glass � two and a cup without a handle these held the hot stuff from the however as well as golden would have done and bob served it out with beaming looks while the on the fire and cracked then bob proposed a merry christmas to us all my god bless us which all the family god bless us every one said tiny tim the last of all he sat very close to his father s side upon his little stool bob held his withered little hand in his as if he loved the child and wished to keep him by his side and dreaded that he might be taken from him expression in this selection we have one of the best pictures of true christmas enjoyment ever composed read it silently again and again and make a friend of every member of the family some of the sentences are long so study each one carefully to get its full meaning and connection now read the lesson aloud paragraph by paragraph in such a way as to make every passage clearly understood study to express the main thoughts in the best possible manner refer to the dictionary for monstrous luxurious exclusive supposition ht thoughts for the new year to be thoughts rule the world � write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year � to day is ours what do we fear to day is ours we have it here let s treat it kindly that it may wish at least with us to stay � pass therefore not to day in vain for it will never come again � om r make yourself nests of pleasant thoughts none of us yet know what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thoughts proof against all � john those who are accompanied with noble thoughts are never alone � sir philip know the true value of time snatch seize and enjoy every moment of it never put off till to morrow what you can do to day � earl of if time be of all things the most precious then wasting time is the greatest for lost time is never found again � whatever any one does or says i must be good just as if the gold or the or the purple were always saying this whatever any one else does i must be pure and keep my color � the sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers but for the wide world s joy the lonely pine on the mountain top waves its boughs and cries thou art my sun and the little meadow violet lifts its cup of blue and whispers thou art my sun and the grain in a thousand fields in the wind and makes answer thou art my sun � be good sweet maid and let who will be clever do noble things not dream them all day long and so make life death and that vast forever one grand sweet song � charles let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it � come to me ye children i come to me ye children for i hear you at your play and the questions that perplexed me have vanished quite away ye open the eastern windows that look toward the sun where thoughts are singing and the of morning run in your hearts are the birds and the sunshine in your thoughts the s flow but in mine is the wind of autumn and the first fall of the snow ah what would this world be to us if the children were no more we should dread the desert behind us worse than the dark before what the leaves are to the forest with light and air for food ere their sweet and tender have been hardened into wood � by henry w that to 