Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-12-23

nrlStmaS IS just as much Christmas g. the Boon island lighthouse as it is anywhere else in the world.
 \nd why notl
 ID be sure, the nearest land is ten D .rs away and when the winter storms .me the waves dash quite over the two a.r.s of rocks out of which the sturdy ..urhouse rises. There are no blaz- r- rows of streets lined with toyshops r.re, no gathering of families, no C.. lstmas trees loaded down with pres m.-. nothing to be seen from the light ! r-e but the changing water and the r..uanging rockS-water on three sides a. on the fourth side bluff barrier Q. ockS, wit hthe world hiding behind r ,en miles away.
 "aere are six children there, though. .a. a mother and father, and if they g..uot make Christmas, then nobody ..... Why, Baby Deb alone is material Q, Igh of which to make a Christmas ..# very rollicking, jolly sort of {. .~tmas, too, but when to her you al. Tom and Sue and Ann and Ike and San-well, the grim old lighthouse {. " overfows with Christmas every --.. of December.
 .r it is lonely, old, one eyed light.
 .>r has it not a chimney' And
 lot children there have stockings
 |. long stockings! Indeed they
 O.. And does not Christmas eve ,,. them all temptingly hung, so in uglv limp and empty, under the .atIeshelf! And does not Christmas uorning-very early, mind you-see ,N graduated, white robed ghosts per -u ming mysterious ceremonies around ,N bulging stockings!
 Ah, then, if you suppose that that ming old gentleman Santa Claus does a.. know how to find a chimney, even w..u the cold waves are pelting it with n.len spray drops ten miles from land, v.n little know what remarkable -,. he has that way
 And the Christmas dinners they have ..rre-the goose, the brown, crisp, m..v, melting roast goose What would .n.r dinner be without that goose What, indeed!
 But once-they turn pale at that .-lrhouse now when they think of it. ,.-v came very near having no goose dinner on Christmas day!
 l. came about in this way. Papa ... if you could only hear Baby Deb .. about it, it would be worth the olnev, but you cannot, of course, so hover mind-Papa Stoughton, the light ...~e keeper, you know, had lost all
 , money in a savings bank that had ..od early in that December.
 \ goose is really not a very expensive ...l, but if one has not the money .. .1urse one cannot buy even a cheap ng Papa Stoughton could not afford -oose. He said so-said so before . me family.
 Ike says that the silence that fell ...n that family then was painful to ..... They looked at one another with ...- SO wide that it's a mercy they yrll ever shut them again.
 =. No gOOse.' at last cried Tom, who WIS the oldest
 .' No gOose,' cried the others in ..rus all except Baby Deb, who was .~y at the time gently admOnishing >Ipin, her most troublesome child - being so dirty. Baby Deb saiC No dOose!n after all the others were e.."t.
 That made them all laugh. No dOubt '.uv thought that, after all, so long a Hov Deb was there it would be Christ anyhow, goose or no goose. S' .... were happy for moment until thu .ught came that roast goose was gOOt |. Christmas even with Baby Deb ant .u they looked dismayed again.
 However, when Papa StoughtOn ex .ned how it was they saw it a r.uIy as he did, and so they made m ...e complaint. Only Tim fell a-think .-. and when the others saw what h Nils doing they did the same, the differ % being that Tom was trying t link what he could do to get tn .,e anyhow and they were tryin F. mink what he was thinking abOu
 that they could think the same except Baby Deb, of course, wh ".lg only four years old gave heI ,..f very little concern about tn
 ughts of others Her own thought k all her time.
 rom finally said "Ah! under In
 .ath and mysteriously vanished int
 ,rher room after beckoning hi . rhers and sisters to follow hin N rh they did almost before they ha
 -tv said "Ah!' Baby Deb wa
 .ro, too. somewhat awestruck at tn -tery about her, but ready to len
 help of her wisdom if necessary.
 We must have goose, " said Ton
 Oh!" gasped the audience, move mingled amazement and admiration
 Tom looked at them with great firm ..-> and dignity.
 Ever since l was born, v he went Ol ..vo have had a roast goose for Chris ..- ''
 Ever since he was born It migI been a hundred years before, frol $ tone and manner, and the aud was tremendously impressed. And, = continued the orator, ''v >t have one now. We will have or ..'',
 They almost stopped breathing. have a plan.' They shudderC drew nearer. ''We all must con .o,D l. Oh!' in chorus.
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