News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-05-25
He pointed at large painting on

| pVu lHe WluOW eACIulineu SHe
started a school for the children c
them Eytalians an Poles. She's tryin
to makS 'em good Americans"
"I'lt never forget that night" MI
Blenkinsop remarked.
IF We don't forgit it. I'll never ment
another hole in yer pants" the widow
answered.
I've never blabbed a word abou
it to any one but Mr.. Singleton"
Keep that in yer soul, man. IT,
yer ticket to Paradise" said the
| widow
"She goes every day to teach the
Poles and Italians, but have her here
with me always the Shepherd re
| marked. I'm glad when the morn
ing comes so that can see her
again"
God bless the child We was
sorry to lose her but we have the
pictur' and the look o. her with the
love o God in her face" said the
Widow Moran.
Nov light yer pipe and take yer
comfort, man." said the hQspitable
widow, after the dishes were cleared
away. Sure it's more like Christmas
to see a man an a pipe in the house.
No, you can't help me with the
dishes, and / wouldn't have you pot,
tering around me if you could. Heav-
ems, no! A man in the kitchen is worse
than a hole in yer petticoat"
So Mr.. Blenkinsop sat with the
Shepherd while the widow went about
her work. With his rumpled hair.
clean-shaven face, long nose and
prominent ears, he was not a hand
some man, but there was something
in his face today that had been alb
sent for so long that it was new
man that sat at the table of the Widow
Moran, a man whom happiness and the
feeling that lie had really got back his
Old Self had transformed.
"Ths is the top notch an no mis-
take" he remarked as he lighted his
pipe. 'Blenkinsop is happy. He feels
like his Old Self. He has no fault
to find with anything or anybody"
Mr.. Blenkinsop delivered this report
on the state of his feelings with a seri-
Gus look in his gray eyes.
1T kind o reminds me o the time
when | used to hang up my Stockln
an look for the reindeer tracks in
the snow on Christmas mOrnin',' he
went on. 'Since then, my OF socks
have hppn full n main an trouble
every Christmas"
Those l knit for We left here full
OF good Wishes said the Shepherd.
Say, when | put EN- on TINS morn
in with the billed shirt an the SUIT
that Mr.. Blng sent me, my Ol0 Sell
came an asked me where | was goin,
ana when | said was goln' to spen
CHRISTMAS with Respectable ram ~
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'he proulsaiS are returning
Ihey heard footsteps on the stairs