The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-23

What Uncle Hurry Made at ths
| Table.
| Uncle Harry IS narnma,s brosber ana
ne Is lieutenant In the navy 50 ~
isn't always home Cor Christmas. t,,,t
/, when he is we children have the most
fun OF any Christmas He can 90 issst
I anything with his fingers, and last ve-r
/ wnsn he was home we had a beasTtif,il
! time It was his idea to ask little BiIlv
! Maroneyr-ahe furnace mans hr,v.-,r,ts.
dinner on Christmas day. and then. 81
yS ,l we Couldn't leave out the crippls
slIo Seii5 lne morning papers at the next
cofner, and Alice wanted TO have ths,
4 WaSneuWorranhs little zirI-I cant 4hirlr
VIA, W.. ner name was but Il doesn't mat
s s orphan asylum asked, and papa sent
tVr the ooy vino comes in and polishas
4 ~ Doots down town tn the afternoon
80, W1qn US four, That made nine, ana
0ncle Harry was ten, and mamma gave
US qfnner at O'Clock, with holly ana
n1lstlstoe on the table, and turkey and
P1u!n puddlng all burning with blue fire
and big orphan admired that cake VIII,
= nrfSurn2s, 1893, on Il in pink icing she
almost cried when Uncle Harry started
20 t..s. cut u: but ne broke or all the icing
gave ut to her. and she liked that SO
ltlucn sne Wcuhn't eat IT: she saved 1t 70
show. to the other orphans
And Through dinner Uncle Harry kept
making the funniest things-plgs and
rabbits end rats and turtles and men
ngnrzlg, and children-out OF the things
esting that he almost forgot 10 eat. ana
the cripple said he'd never had 50 much
1 I'm IN all his life, and when Uncle Harry
made rhe last thing group OF acrobata
out of corks-the orphan laughed SO
much we Thought she'd choke
The first thing he made was the men
lighting, and this was how he did it: He
took a fiat crust Of bread and laid it On
the table. and In each end he stuck a
sprlg on celery to look like two green
trees. and then he broke Off two claws
of the lobster and stuck the points down
in the bread so that they looked just Ike
men WhenS they put their feet out to
fence. He drew Eittle faces on them with
his pencil, and made them each a pair
OF arms out of the small side claws OF
lobster, and took the two long, red wills
kers Holsters have to represent the two
swords. 1t was awfu1ly funny when it
was done. Mary, the waitress, got so
interested while 1t was being made, she
stood with q plate in her hand and for
got 10 pass the potatoes The boy VINO
blacks fathers Doots-he seems to be a
pretty smart boy-said it looked like the
two robbers lighting about The Babes
! Hello, you guessed it first time" and
the boy was 50 pleased. Mary brought
him a lemon after we'd finished pudding.
and ne made the dearest pig. The ears
lemon peel that Uncle Harry cut from
tine under side of the stomach OF the pig.
and he cut little Sits just back Of the
head and tucked these in so that they
hung right over the pigs eyes exactly
like a live one. Then he StHck in two
ends of matches for the fore feet and
two more that were bent outward little
for the hind feet, and finally he got a
bit of yellow ribbon that was around one
of the popping crackers and pinned II N
for a. beautiful tail. 1t was such a real
hooking pig that you could almost hear
him gTunt, and after dinner when Billy
Mahoney went home he asked for the
pig, and Uncle Harry let him nave IT.
Billy said his father often told him about
the lovely pig that used to live in the
same house with him IN Ireland and ne
was sure he would enjoy seeing SUCH a.
nice one as the lemon pig. After that
whenever he wanted Uncle Harry 70
make one he always asked for a Ma
honey pig"
turtle, and that one Alice kept herseif,
and it stood on her bureau Tor ever SO
long until one night a mouse found 1t and
, raisin5 then, and Uncle Harry took a
rafssn and stuck one seed at the end IOr
the head and four more underneath lor
the legs, and there all in minute was
the dearest cunnirgest turtle, holding
no it's head in the most innocent 1nquir-
ing way. 1t was just as sweet as any
thing and since Uncle Harry went back
to sea, I have learned to do them myselt;
The very last thing and the best OF
all was made out of corks- Mary brougnI
Uncle Harry a whole box OF matcnes e. anSl
the the pantry. BY that time everything, was
Iincie Harry got out the penknife with a
silver handle that Alice and mad given
him that very morning for Christmas
present and Mabel ran up stairs Ior
some pins. Then he began. He took a
Bis fat cork that had come out of a
Jam jar and laid that on the. table. He
bent two watches in the middle just a
very little and stuck them into the cork.
on top Of these he put another cork that
had come out of a, claret bottle, and in
the middle stuck a short bit OF match
and on top of this again q ball of cork
that he had cut out round and had
drawn a funny face on with his pencil.
Then he struck two more matches at the