Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-12-20
A Christmas Story.

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he air ship. and we sail away over
Mountains and seas until we rea b
he kingdom of Father Time,
In this wonderful land we may
zee reproduced any event that evei
ranspired on earth.
Before entering this mysterious
ountry we must drink of the
lraught of old age, as no youth is
allowed so rare pleasure.
We drink and enter leaning on
our ats, though happy and an
lious to travel down through time
% the beginning of great city.
It was early in the morning when
we reas he'd our destination, the Sun
King in all his glory was just be
ginning his journey across the long,
broad road Of heaven.
Our first pi ture sixteen or eigh-
cen of the humblest homes, built of
ogs, the material which nature so
freely gave, and though at SO early
an hour we spied several of the in
mates of the cottages busy feeding
heir faithful animals.
We read in these mems fa9es
strength, determination and some
hing deeper. true. noble soul full
II tie love of God and a desire to be
his people in every deed.
We enter one of the cottages and
4 oagh the walls are of unsawed
oss and the floor of the soil God
ave us to tread upon, we find hos
1itality and the CHEEKY faces of these
9omen tea Ii the lesson of endur-
anGe.
1t is harvest time the grain has
Just been gathered. All are busy
-hreshing or storing the harvest.
There came a time very soon
when the men with their OK teams
must take their wheat TO "A distant
village to be made into flour.
They are gone long, long time.
and during their stay Winter spread
very heavy mantle of white over
he earth, making their return very
difficult.
A party had been organized to
go in search of the absent ones, but
has $ aroely completed their pre-
parations when the lost party ar
riyes
They bring with them supplies to
he busy house wives who are pre-
pairing for the festivities of the year.
The men-folk decided that their
share of the preparations be to build
a hall of worship as well as amnse-
ment
This was a long tiresom job as
all the lumber used for floor and
asings must be hand sawed, how
ever, through determination and
stiaktoativeness they finished it for
4 holiday dance.
The day before Christmas comes,
and we find the busy housewives
making molasses cakes and vinegar
pies.
Work all finished the mother calls
her little ones around her knee and
els them the most beautiful of all
stories, how He, the mighty founder
of Christmas came, came to the
hnmblest of all birthplaces. and OF
His never-tiring effort to bless and
make happy His fellow men, how
His whole life work harmonizes with
he gem True happiness II under
: stood consists alone in doing good
: The story is hardly finished wher
hey amper OF to find their stock,
ings viii h they carefully hang By
he fire place and as they are snugls
tucked into bed they breathe a pray
ar that good st. Nicolas will flnd
hem In their new land, which seems
only vast plain of snow with /
great wall of snow-eovered monnta
ms all around.
The children were SO anxious tt
get their gifts that when the ole
a1aek ON the mantle struck FIVE thes
srept quietly out on the cold earth,
door and tin-toed to get these pre-
ious stockings which are full to tbs
brim with the incest molasss cake.
nj IN tie shapes OF indians, bears
Habhils. birds. and best OF all on
like dear old ST. Nicholas himself.
We eat a breakfast of cooked
wheat minus cream and sugar. THU
with a piece of vinegar pie stays oul
appetites for the delicious dinner W,
are served of good boiled beef, posa
oes. bread. butter. and plum pud
ling where dried salves berries
5nusht from the Indians. took tn,
1lase of raisins and currents.
During the afternoon the we.
.nlks wee allowed the rare nleasnr.