The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-25

ball bats, footballs, fencing foils, dou-
bic rippers, wheels, kodakS and a big
hand organ with a grinning monkey
sitting on it.
And candy and fruit until you'd think
Of doctor. He told the Sunset Boy
to pitch in, and all that day he ate and
read and rode and shot holes in dis
tant clouds, and took snapshots of the
Sunset Boy and taught him how to
box, and by nightfal was the tiredest
boy who ever visited a cloud. He had
had enough Christmas to last him three
years.
The next morning he woke up in the
Fourth of July room and he wanted
to turn over and go to sleep, but the
warrior said that he must choose a holi-
day, as long as he had been SO keen
for it. So he chose the Fourth be-
cause the warrior had pulled one out of
place and he didn't want to disoblige
him.
At sight of the heaps Of frecrackers
and Union torpedoes and grasshopperS
and fiery dragons and cannons his en-
thuSiaTn returned, and when he and
the Sunset Boy found themselves on a
new cloud, with nothing to remind
him of Christmas on it, he set out to
have fun, but the premature discharge
Of a bunch Of cannon crackers set fire
ing, and when the Sunset Boy had put
out the fire with a rain cloud, he found
that all the firecrackers were wet, and
so the morning was not as noisy as you
might have supposed it would be. In
the evening Tod did thoroughly enjoy
himself. Every set piece you ever
heard of was there, and he and the
Sunset Boy hung them on the edge of a
great bank Of clouds that looked por-
fsaT~ f.0rrc md Ion o~fr1
lighted up. and then it resembled fairy
land. One million rockets going off at
once make a spectacle that you don't
see every day in the year, and there
were long articles in the earth papers
the day after, telling about the shoot
ing stars that had come ahead Of time.
But the astronomers were able to give
good reasons for their appearance, and
not a soul imagined that Tod was at
/ the bottom-or, rather, the top-of the
display.
The morning after the Fourth Tod
had a splitting headache, and said he
was sick of holidays and he'd like to
so down to earth.
His two friends bade him goodbye
and he stepped into the basket Of the
balloon, and thanks to a little help
from a heavy wind cloud that he fas-
tened under the basket, he reached the
midst of terrific windstorm.
When the Sd of July came the next
month it found people everywhere max
ing preparations for the celebration Of
the Fourth but greedy Tod had al
ready celebrated it up in Cloudland,
and there was no Fourth. People every
where slept through that day, and
there were some who would have
blessed Tod, but the small boys were
furious. They could not explain 1t.
They went to bed with all their am
munition within reach, and when they
woke up they realized that somehow
the Fourth had come and gone and they
hadn't fired a shetland yet it had all
disappeared.
Tod slept with the rest. but when
the Christmas season came long he
hoped that he could celebrate it. His
adventure was now six months back,
and six months in a boys life are
good deal more than half year. He
made his preparations for Christmas
as usual, in common with all the rest
Of the boys who make much Of the
great holiday, but it was all to no pur-
pose. AS your grandparents may have
told you, everybody slept over the glad
season and woke the day after with
much better digestions, but deeply re-
GREETING that they had lost a Christ
mas that they could never regain.
And Tod felt worse than anybody
else and realized what a pig he had
been. He really cultivated his gener-
osity to good effect for the next few
weeks.
But the following year all the holt
days went off with a bang and I've
heard my grandfather say that he be-
lieved It did folks good to go without a
holiday once in a while. as they appre-
ciated them better But l say place
for each holiday and every holiday in
it's place.