The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-12-24
PETER AND
THE MULBERRY
TREE
Some dogs have names.

AQlAtC QOSo nave Iidl1GS.
There was Caspar, the pup. He
had name, but he was too young to
know it.
There was the old dog Barker.
My father used to make Barker sit
up and listen. Father would say to
me, mo orderly boy would leave his
hat on the floor like that. Barker
wouldn't do it, if he were a boy"
Them Barker would bark, once.
Then my father would ask Barker
if he was good dog, and Barker
would bark twice.
Some dogs have no names.
The little black and white dog across
The street is just a dog, but he will
come when you whistle.
There is dog near here who knows
the butcher cart when he sees it COM
ing. He drives all the hens out of
the yard, so he can pick up the scraps
of meat that fall from the cart while
the butcher is getting the meat ready.
This dog hasn't any name. He is
so selfish that he isn't worth naming.
Once there was a tree, and it had
a name. 1t was mulberry tree.
The man that owned the tree had
q dog, too. His name was Peter, and
no little dog was ever more fond of
meat than Peter was of mulberries.
He would hunt around in the grass,
under the mulberry tree, until he had
found every mulberry that had fallen
down. Then he would run against the
tree and bump down lot more.
Some children heard about Peter
and the Mulberry tree and it made
them think of something.
1t made them think of fixing up a
Christmas tree, with many little pack
ages upon it-like mulberries- and
then humping the things off for
Christmas gifts.
So, this is just what they did.
Charlie had the first bump.
When he picked up his package he
found that he had a round hole with
a square peg in it.
There was bit of paper tied to the
peg, and on it was written:
Get into the right place."
Harry's bump brought down a
square hole with a round peg in it.
Its paper said:
Don't get into the wrong place."
Then Frank gave bump that was
regular butt, and he held up a
square hole with a square peg init.
These words were with them:
"a place for everybody, and every
body in his place"
When Dick bumped, he got round
hole and round peg.
What does this mean?" he
shouted.
The same thing answered
Frank.
Sure" said Chauncey.
Chauncey was the littlest. He was
SO little that he used to take his doll
10 bed with him and talk over with
it, before he went to sleep, the things
they had done that day. And he had
Just learned that word "sure." He
was SO proud of it that he used to
say it to his father instead of "yeth
sir Chauncey would soon learn that
sure" was not as nice as "yeth sir"
Then the girls. said it was their
turn and they began to bump.
Ruth got an alphabet, so as to
learn not TO say "hikjlmnop."
Sarah had "a headache in her
knee" SO Mary bumped for her.
Down came pair of rubbers and
Mary put them on "inside outwards,"
just to try them.
Then they all bumped the tree for
Chaancey, who wasn't big enough to
bump hard enough to make anything
IaA.
Such a lot of things tumbled off.
There was baseball glove-Ruth
tried it on and her hand looked like
q hassock; breastpin-Sarah pinned
it on her sleeve, where she could see
it" two doll dress patterns; new
dolls hat-a small hat; a set of
dlshes; a dolls high chair, and
toothpick.
Chauncey was like the old woman
who lived in the shoe. He didn't
know what to do with all his things;
out he was careful to use the tooth
pick every time he took drink of
milk.
There was still one package left.
1t was ON the top of the tree.
One little girl, her name was Lucy,
had not had anything. So the chill
dren let her pull the top of the tree
down to get this package.
And there was the dearest doll that
ever came off of Christmas tree.
1t had blue eyes that would open and
shut and the cunningest frock.
Lucy, now the dolls mother, thought
that this was the very best gift of all.
Then, just as they were going to go
downstairs, there came a rap at the
door.
Come in" they shouted
What do you suppose? 1t was Santa
Claus. He marched in with stockings
for them that were all bullying and
bursting with good things.
What fun they had with him and
with all the things he had brought
They had such a good time that
some of it spread away around the
corner to a house that Santa Claus
mad not visited yet.
So, everybody had something.
This is what God meant the Christ
mas tree for.
After their visit to the poor chill
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