The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-24

So "a : OnLNSIA1N0s
She will unfold ,er I'D quietly
fly out the window before we know it, I
guess"
1t was nearly daylight when little Fay
opened her eyes and sat up. It was Joy
ing, and the flakes were comingdown thick
and fast. and the sight made her heart leap
for joy. The weather was just like that of
year ago. and she remembered overy cir
cumstance connected with that fateful
Christmas eve. On and on went the train.
After awhile they entered the suburbs
of a great smoky city, for now it was broad
daylight, and even the sun was trying to
come up, and she could see the iEtermfna-
BILE row after row of houses, with the
smoke from their chinneys curling up
ward in the stiA air. Presently theycame
up to another station, and she heard q
voice back on the train call ut"Grand
avenue"
Grand aveRpei Grand avenuel' Wits
pered the Spirit Of Steam as it came IN
through the cab window and wrapped her
in it's arms. '"Tkis is yeur placel Come
down the steps and I viii hold you in my
arms"
And when to ~oldsengine pulled out from
the station. and Jack and Dick found their
strange passenger missing, theElooked at
each other, buS82id never WORD.
And Fey was standing In asuowdrift.
1t was very cold and she followed two
men going up over tafa.hiM SheEeUem-
bered Grand aven1eEsd che kind old gem
tleman who had tHtd her 70 rom home, but
how could she find bar wHSS And while
she was thinking. aad her fngeFsaxd toes
were growing cold and heF lip was be-
ginning to tremb1e, she hesra che chimes
of the church and saw the spire That the
kind old gentleman had pointed out to
her, and away she went On the wings Of
the windi
In fact, the wind would have to have
very large wings and work them with pro
digious force to go half az fast as sha did.
And when shesdid get intoeher yarde@ the
old house IL seemed asst she wSuld nsver
be able to reach the door, for Eido would
not let her by, but Just pushed her down
and played with her and kissed her and
just barked and harkaa till he cried And
when she coniansS get the door open and
ran and knockeaon the window, and saw
pan and mamma sitting bya Christmas
tree just Ike the n q year before, ana
they both sprang up and screamed and ran
to the door, and she felt their loving en-
braces and tender kisses, her heart ran
over with tears of leys and happiness.
All, but wasn't that a Christrnasl It
Doad take atheusand yule logs to equal
in Fay's eyes the little lighted t-apershang-
ing from the limbs of the evergreen tree;
it would take hundreds Of wassail bowls
to compare with the sugar plums and can
dies that delighted her eyes. And then
the dolls, and the wonderful watches with
real hands, and the tin tigers and lions
that looked so fierce you could hardly
recognize them. and the candy mice and
pigs that deserved to be eaten and met
their deserts, and Noah's ark, with SO
many animals that you could not tell what
half Of them were, and everso many won
derful things besidesi
And when at last she lay SO sweetly rest
full in mammals arms, with papa looking
fondly down, every bell in the city seemed
to know it and shouted GU the glad It'd
fngs as loud as its braEen throat could yell,
only gradually quieting down in its excess
of joy to join at the CLOSET in the harmonious
r~efrain-"Peace on earthl Peace on earthl''
HARRY W. CoCKERILL