The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1892-12-19
UNITED AT YULETIDE

'Mistletoe be bowed, SIR said the ma.
jor "mistletoe be bowed"
He gazed sententiousy at his boots as
he spoke, and then, with more Modified
information, remarked, "They leak, Sid, my
boy, they leak-lcak like sleeves, sir but
no matter
Then he wiggled "A protrudng toe the
better to emphasize his statement, and ut
every wggle the obedient sole leather
futtered away from the upper and Tapped
in softened resonance with the sound of a
muffled castanet.
If you only knew them you'd come. -
persisted the younger man. Why. major,
it's Christmas, you know, and and
we'll they know you're friend of mine
and they re not 50 stuck up rs you say, and
! if you'd onlS come just think of the fun
you'd have. 1t would be just like the old
times over a in You'd fancy Yourself a
boy Pretty nrls, you know, ioliest sort
of II dinner; Old fashioned us You please
Major Macil ling was forty, and he looked
| fifty two " here he came from or why he
came nobody seemed to know or want to
| know His lose wis long and pointed, his
| bristly mustache was gray, and his hair
wa. thin about the temples There were
| deep lines from his nostrils down To his
| chin and around his eyes were network :
of queer little crow 's-feet wrinkles Still
| ne had not Il hard sort of face for though
there We're line, between his eyebrows and
on his forehead the eyes themselves were
soft and dreamy aud gray, rs if they were
always looking for something beyond the
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gray eyes were the index to the majors
character He wis II drcamer-a disap
pointed dreamer, And disappointed dream
ers, when they reach Il certain age, begin
to get tired OF waiting for the dream that
never comes true. Hence the lines about
the eyes aud nostrls.
Cyril Thompso they always called him
Sid-likcd the major because he WAS his
| own anttheSis. He WAS only tWcnt N-fiVc,
| but dreaming WAS not one of his vices.
| Sometimes, OF course, as boys will do, he
would paint himself pretty fancies of hap
! Ply things in the FIXTURE But those fancics
| were honlely little genre sketches. 81 to
| speak, when compared to the golden can
| vases of the ma or S more trained and vivid
| imagination
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