Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-01-07
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D1cKHNgs cHRIsTMAs STORY
what ch41satmiiass OASIS Is, aiss3We grow Older.

what Cn11st1nas I'm Is, as we grow Older.
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The London Times says Of the following, thatit
is one Of the tenderest and most pathetic hncies
Dickens has ever given forth.l .
Time was. with most of us, when Christmas
Day, encircllng all our limited world like a magic
ring, left nothing out for US TO miss orseeki bound
together all our home enjoyments, affections and
hopes; grouped everything and every one around
the Christmas fire, and made the little picture sh
ming in our bright young eyes, complete.
Time came, perhaps, all 50 soonl when our
thought overleaped that narrow boundary; when
there was some one (yery dear, we thought then.
very beautiful and absolutely pertech) wanting to
the fulness Of our our happiness; when we were want
ing, too. (or we thought SO, which did Just as well
at the Christmas heaFlh @ N ~ tnat some one
sat; and When we enlWlnea WIN every wreath ana
garland Of our lie M that at some M ones name.
That was the nme tortae oFlsht visionary Chrlst-
masses which have 4o2g arisen trom us 10 snow
family after summer ram IN the Palest edges OF
The rainbow: That was was the time Tor the oeaaah li
ed enjoyment OF the thngs that were 70 P POe' ana
never were. and yet the things that were 50 fesl
in our resoiuie hope that 1t would oe hsld @ say
now what Iealues ~ ~achleSeu SINCE haEs nave e peen
stronger. ,.s.....s 1,s.s- s=s ,-as
Whatf Did that Ghlistnas never !ea4ly come
when we and the pnceless pearl VINO was 9ut
young choice were received after the hapPiest OF
totally impossible marriages. oy the TWO united ia
miles previously at daggers drawn on our accounu
When brothers ana s'sters-in-laf%' VINO haa al
ways been rather cool to us before our reiaiionshP
was effected perfectly dotted on US ana ana when tath
ers ana ~ noEheEs oVetWneiMiHee e " Us Win uiilH!eu
incomes! was that GnriMsAas n M alhner never 1eatty
eaten, after which we arose and generously ana
eloquentIy rendered honor TO our late rival, pres
ent in the company ana mere exchanging iteaha
ship and torgls a ana a. 1ounains an a5'achpen
not to be surpassed IN GFeek OF honan stoty'
spbslsted until % dealhf has that same INai ioans
ceased 10 care are LOT OF 'nat y same
married tor money. ana 0eeone osulous
all dove really snow row Anat we shop1p p1f9p@-
bly, have been miserable f II We haa won anu worn
the pearl, and that we lFe better without hels
That Christmas NJ s1 when we haa Eec'enly eS4ssfe
50 much lnmsi I when Is % we hao eeen CARED =
umph somewhere ! toF cong 'lg soln@taing
good; when zen we We haa M y on an honotaole anu snno-
oled name' ana srrlSea ana Wetf received ~ hoins
in shower OF tears ans Of loyi ls II possible maj 'aa'
Christmas ild1 iFg9is has not come SfH}fa
Ana IS not our NE mere NA ~ q 'e UeS'' 9
ted that pausing as we adyance al Suef nouS
able milestone IN the tfack at ta's great
we look back on lhlngs that never were as
rally and tnl as grayey as on me thngs tnat nave
been and are gone, or have been and still areE II
i If be So and so It seems 10 be- must W come 10
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