The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-12-21


g Heigho, Bess ! Here I've been standing
looking and looking ever SO long. trying to
make out If it was you. Thought I knew
your plaid shawl and red hood, and sure
enough it is you. didn't know that Auntie
ever allowed you to go out after dark How
long have you been standing before this store
Window Patience alive IL you aren't cry
ing Well, III just bet you're wishing for
some of these Christmas things l don't DO
lieve you even know il is showing. Look at
you, Bess, you're as white with snow flakes
as old Kriss himself"
"John, to tell you the truth, there are
tears in my eyes, and big lumpin my throat,
and did not think about the snow at ALL
zxuurIv uIscvvcsou sne nau onIy NIUE
sugar in the pantry, and sent me down town
for few pounds. You know, John, this is
Christmas eve, and the stores do look so
splendid, nearly forgot had to buy sugar
and hurry home. Do you know what time it
is? | cannot tell how long I've been looking
in this one window. just look at that set of
china dishes, John, and that box of furniture;
its all stuffed like city peoples velvet parlor
chairs. Wouldn't like to have that though ?
But the thing l want the most is that big
wax dolland bedstead, !" and with that, little
Bess cotild hold 10 no longer, but boo-hooed
oatright. g You know, John, Auntie don't
even let me hang up my stocking like i used
to do when mamma was living, and when
Christmas comes feel all the time like crying
because other children get dolls and dishes,
and Kriss fils up their stockings but Auntie
tells me Kriss does not come out on the hills
where we live, and If ] had dolls and dishes to
play with, | wouldn't have time to learn
verses, catechism aud hymns. But thiuk |
would, John, for l would take my do.lie to
bed when go, and could set the furniture
aud dishes around and just have them to look
at. But, oh dear / must hurry home, its
showing so hard, and Auntie will worry and
want the sugar. can't keep from crying,
John, and don't feel like going home,'
Nov, Bess, you hurry right home, for you
know its long walk, and tomorrow morning
I'm come over with my sled and we'll have a
jolly good time coasting Only last Sunday,
Bess, my teacher told MS If we asked God,
believing all tho time that bed do it, for any
thing we ought to have. he'd send it to u.s.
She told us that we could even have mountains
removed if we asked, believing. Now, Bess,
you just ask God for the big doll aud the
things you want the most. Be sure to ask be-
ieving, that means thinking you llget it sure,
aud | think it will come. Don't you cry
another bit. Go home real cheerful like and
don't forget to ask, just like you'd beg your
papa and mamma for anything you wanted
very much. 1t don't seem like Christmas to
see anybody crying. When feel that way
Bess, think The flowers will bloom again
and The birds will slug again. Don't that
sound like poetry. Bess, and don't it make
you feel better? It's sort of comfortin' to
me, Bess, always, for love the flowers and
birds, and when it's time for them everything
looks so bright. Only see how far I've come
with You Now hurry up the bAL Hurrah
for good sled ride and big wax doll But
mind You don't forget to ask :"
"No, wont, John, Eli beg for my things.
But do wonder how they could come to me
up the hill"
"Never mind that part, just you do the
asking. Good night
Little Bess skipped along tighter OF heart
for having seen John, her little mind full OF
the many sights sue had seen, thinking what
Christmas day would do for her, aud wonder
ing how blooming flowers and singing birus
could make good Christmas. All she cared
for was big wax doll.
/" Well, I won't think much more about it,
for Johns teacher says God will give us what
is good for us to have, and when | pray to-
night I'll just say, My dear Father, who art
in heaven, please give me a big wax doll, for
want one very much bless John, and N
try TO be good girl for Jesus sake, Amen. ~
Bess soon reached home, entered the big