The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-12-16

| snow and cold to the poor but bright little
home where Ulrica, her pale, delicate, lame,
| elder sister impatiently awaited her.
Welcome. Posie dcar!" she cried. as she
mot the pretty clerk at the door and kissed
her glowing brown check. 1T seemed as
| though you would never come. What an up
| roar the street has been in tonight! 1 never
knew SO noisy q Christmas-eve before. As
our old nurse used to say, Il could scarcely
hear myself think" All the time she was
talking she was taking OF the hat and jacket,
| and chafing the half-frozen hands with moth
| er's tenderness and care. "There, sit down
| in the rocking-chair, and put your little feet
| on the footstool and here's a plate Of toast
| Drowned just as you like II, with plenty Of
butter, and a cup of delicious hot tea to re-
fresh you. I'm sure you need them, dcarie,
after your long days work.
| "You heard yourself think OF me in spite of
the uprosr. Rica," said Posie, her face already
| beginning to lose Its tired look, "snd you're
| the blessing of my life. How glad I am that
it's Chrismas-day to-morrow!-not particular
| ly because II is Christmds, but because 1t Is a
holiday, and can stay at home and be petted
| by you. We shan't have any presents as we
used to in old times, nor any roast turkey and
| plum pudding; only a small chicken and
| love-" adding, rather irreievantly, after the
manner of young girls, AS for candies, I'm
sick of them"
As said before, it was q poor little home
| that to which PoSie came-only one room an d
| a tiny bedroom. .t
! ingram carpet; two ottomans mot for the
\ world would hint anything about old pack
| ing cases or Pose's cast-on cambria dresses In
1 connection with these articles Of furniture); a
| large old-fashioned rocking-chair with COM
| Portable fat cushion made from one of those
| same cambric-blcss me! what am saying?-
| made from the same material as that which
1 c0verad II meant to q
| round table which, when not holding break
| fast, lunch or dinner, held a few treasured
| books. first and foremost among them Dick
| ems christmas Carol" the blessedest Christ
mas story that ever made glad the heart OF q
reader; two or three canebottomed chairs; a
round mirror above the mantel-and the sit
| ting-room was furnished.
| StayI had almost forgotten the two most
valued things, the only things left to the sis
| tiers out of the many gifts bestowed upon
| them by their indulgent parents in days gone
| blythe portraits of their father and mother.
which hung one on each side Of the mirror,
| and tonight were wreathed with Christmas
/ green ana immortelles.
The knd-hcarted gentleman and his sweet
| wife had died within month OF each other.
| four years ago, leaving a comfortable compe-
| tency to their daughters, but in less than a
year, through the villainy Of an unprincipled
| guardian, II had All disappeared, and the two
| on the great-aunt> in whose house they had
| taken shelter whenSe had broken up their
own once happy household.
| Ulrica, the eldest sister, had been lame from
her birth, and was shy, fragile, reserved
| girl; but Tryphosa, called Posie for short, was
a brave, frank, strong little body, with a clear
| head and hopeful, honest nature.
The great aunt was the only relative remain
| ing to them, ana she was q widow and q she
| dragon, and having no children of her own,