The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-12-24
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Charles Dickens

ing at 4 merry company of chill
dren assembled abound that pref
~ German toy, Christmas tree.
Being now at home again and alone,
the only person in the house awake.
my thoughts are drawn back by fas-
cinatiOn which | do not care TO resist
TO nay own childhood. Straight in the
middle of the room, cramped in the
freedom of its growth by no encircling
walls or soon reached ceiling. a shad.
0wy tree arises, and, looking up into
the dreamy brightness of IT'S top, for
I observe ia this tree the singular prop
crty that it appears to grow down.
ward toward the earth, look into my
youngest Christmas recollections.
All toys ut first find. But upon the
branches Of the tree, lower down, how
thick the books begin to hang-thin
books. in themselves at first. but many
Of them. with deliciously smooth covers
cf bright red and greeni
"a was an archer and shot at frog"
OF course lie was. He was an apple
pie also, and there he is! He was
good many things in his time. was A,
and so were most of his friends, except
X. who had 90 little versatility that.f,
never knew him to get beyond Xerxess,
or Nantippe. -
But now the very tree itself changes
and becomes a beanstalk. the marvel
GUS beanstall by which Jack climbed
UP to the giants house.
Good for Christmas time is the rud-
dT color of the cloak in which. the tree
making a forest Of itself for her to
trip through with her basket, Little Red
Riding Hood comes to me one Christ
Fass eve to give me information of the
cruelty and treachery Of that dissem-
bling wolf who ate her grandmother
without making any impression on his
appetite and then ate her after max
ing that ferocious joke about his teeth.
She was my FIRST love. | felt that IL
1 could have married Little Red Rid
ing Hood / should have known perfect
bliss. EEt it was not to be, and there
was nothing for it but to look for the
WOLF iu the NOah's ark there and put
him last in the procession on the table
as monster who was to be degraded.
Oh. tie wonderful Noah's ark! 1t
was not found seaworthy when put in
q washing tub. and the animals were
crammcd in at the roof and needed to
hsge their legs Well shaken down be-
fore tgsr could be cot in even there.
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