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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-03

NANTED-Linotyp operators ON
book, magazine and job composition.
Clean proofs required. One for day
work. one for night work. The Vermont
Printing Co, Brattleboro, VT. 79-tf*
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

CASH PAID for wool at the Richard
son Market. 12-tf
PUBLIC CAR for livery, day or night.
E. Fl. Reed. Tel S22-J or $50. 12-f
CHTROPODIST-Dr. Briggs at Dr.
Baley's Office, 207 Barber block, phone
coo. Residence, 439-J. 1-tf
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DIR. f. r. LYNCH. BrattIeboro, VT.
TAX NOTICE

Dummerston. Vt. May -, 1929. ]
hereby give notice that the selectmen
of the town of DummerStOn have placed
in my hands as Treasurer, taxes due said
town for the year 1922. Said taxes are
due June ]. and a discount of per cent
is allowed if said taxes are paid u me as
Treasurer of said town on or before the
first day of September, 1922.
Adm F. MILLER, Treasurer.
Town of Dummerston.
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WANTED-Teamster on farm. L. NJ.
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WANTED-Good plain cook. IA Cha
pin st. oo-l1
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FOR SALE-One large safe. Walter
S. Pratt, Brattleboro, VT. I4-tf
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MACHINES AT LOWEST PRICES
Write me about what magazines you
want for the coming year. l can get
them for YOU at money saving prices.
Mrs. G. NJ. Love, Magazine Specialist.
South Newfane, VT. 1-tf
SANDERS BEAUTY SHOP, Room
-16, Crosby Block. Swedish scalp treat
ment a speciality. Manicuring, shampoo
ing, hair dressing, marcel waving, ia
cid massage. Hours 9 to II and to
8. Mondays and Thursdays to p. m.
and by appointment. Tel S09-1. 46-tf
MEN AND WOMEN to handle city
trade and retail the original and genuine
Watkins products, remedies, extracts.
spices, toilet requisites, household special
ties, automobile accessories, etc. Over
100 guaranteed products. Our values
are unequailed and Watkins quality is in
a class by itself Write. today for free
sample and full details of our offer and
what it means to you. The J. r. Wat
kins Co, Dept. "a, 81 Washington St.
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OIN ISAI4I1- 5IIIAVu AO0I1Il5' = =
Plumbing & Heating Co. 19-tf
LOAN FOR SALE-The Grant Gran
tie Co. 24-26 So. Main st. Aft
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TO RENT-Four-ruOm tenement. Tel.
6f7-M 17-tf
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TO RENT-Room at : Linden st.
TIT
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TO RENT.

TO RENT-Room ut II Canal St,
On IF
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FOR SALE-Can give prompt deliy
cry on one type r. c. Westinghouse
D. X. Millington, Peru, Vt. 7S-S1%
st. All modern improvements. Lot
&c 20S. All kinds of fruit and large
garden. Call or phone 184-W. Gait
FOR SALE-One or pair good young
work horses, Would exchange for
Guernsey cows or driving horse. How
ard Bros, Guilford, VT. Tel. 1912 74-tf
- FOR SALE-Purebred IIolstein bull
calf. GreatgrandsOn of the new Worlds
Champion for milk and butter production.
J. Nichols, Bonnyvale Road, West Brat
tlebOro. 79-Sl*
FOR SALE-High topped organ,
Woodstock make, Estey reeds, first-class
quire \. 2. Emery, West Brattleboro,
Tel. 1882. 1879
FOR SALE-FOrd sedan. The man
is dead and his wife would like to sell it
It's in good condition, self starter, and
good engine. ) River View St, Brat
tlebOro, Vt. ---- SO-S3*
FOR SALE-Seven-room cottage at
Crescent Beach, Conn. because of own
er's decease). Large piazza, quiet loca-
ton, near Sound. Lot 225 by 40 fit.
Telephone c. r. Dunklee. Soft
tOK SALE-SeVeraI good used EOrdS
late model REQ speed wagon, 1919, $500:
ton Ford truck, very reasonable, $50;
7-pasSenger Chandler touring car. Spen-
GERS Garage, Mortified, Mass. 76-S1%
FOR SALE-AIixed late astar plants
ready soon, 40c. hundred, 46c parcel
post Also tomato, cabbage and cauli-
flower plants. Salyias and verbena
plants. L. f. Mixer, 107 Western Ave
Tel. 2j4-W. 79-tf
- FOR SALE-Nine-room house and 3
building lots, good location House sold
with or without lots. Price reasonable
and terms very easy. Will exchange for
standing timber or farm property. Brat
tleboro Grain Co Phone 927. 75-tf
FOR SALE-Ford SEDAN less than
year old. Guaranteed in first class CON
dition. Equipped with Alemite greasing
system, carburetor control dash light,
spare tire, aluminium radiator cap and
motor meter. Cash only Inquire of E.
II. Crane, Vermont Printing Co. Gifts
FOR SALE-Purebred IIolstein Erie
sian bull calves by good son of a $780,
600 bull and out of dam sired by a 30
Id. son of King Lyons. Price from S15
to $40, also one yearfing and one two
year-old purebred ready for service. G.
J. Perkins & Son, Rural ), Brattleboro.
vt. GAIT
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FOR SALE.
FOR SALE-Dry hard wood. Tel
327-X. Soft
FOR SALE-GaIvanized roofing. Fitch
Plumbing & Heating Co. 19-d
LOAN FOR SALE-The Grant Gran
lite Co., 24-26 So. Main st. 44-tt
FOR SALE-One large safe. Walter
S. Pratt, Brattleboro, VT. l4-u
FOR SALE-Soft wood slabs, $3.50
load. Holden & Martin Lumber Go. 19-tf
FOR SALE-Furniture and ranges,
new and secondhand, at J. =. Dunton.s.
FOR SALE-Five-room cottage house,
modern improvements. Inquire West
FOR SALE-Last block wood, so per
cord delivered Telephone your orders to
26S. 74-tf
FOR SAIE-Large colony Italian
| bees, standard hive. Price Sc. Tel.
| 391-R 1857
FOR SALE-Long Ford truck, bar
gain, price low. j. q. Bushnell, "a
Elliot St. 59-tf
FOR SALE-Dry hard wood, split or
chunks II. n. NeWcomb, Guilford, VT.
Tel 1916. 1-tf
FOR SALE-FOrd sedan in excellent
condition; also one REQ speed wagon.
| lei. 13I-N. oO-o=-ot<
FOR SALE-Five-pass Dodge
touring car in first class condition. Price
reasonable. Tel. 64S-J. 1881
| FOR SALE-Indian motorcycle, fully
equipped and in excellent condition. c.
\. George, IL Linden st. 72-S1*
FOR SALE-White Pekin ducks eggs
for Matching. Ten cents each. Mrs. Rob
ert G. Loomis, Putney. VT. 52-S2
| FOR SALE-White Leghorn and Ply
mouth Rock yearIing hens. Lester ).
Barber, Guilford. Tel. PAN. S1#
FOR ALE-Two-tenement house
! within five minutes walk of Main st.
Price $1,000. John L. Howard. Soft
| FOR SALE-Three hp Gray motor
for boat. In good running order. Price
$50. Call evenings. % Elm st. 72-tf*
! FOR SALE-Three spinning wheels
more than 100 years old. Good condi-
ton. J. E. Bushnell, "a Elliot St. soft
| FOR SALE-AnOther lot of purebred
day-old Il. |. Red chicks 1Sc. each. r.
\. Newton, DummerstOn, Tel. 341-2.
| 7S-tf
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-12-15
The evergreen Tree
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
By Christopher G. Hazard
}. 1922. Western Newspaper Union.)

THE servants had retired and left
- the old lady alone. She sat be-
fore the decorated and lighted tree
that was burdened with gifts that
seemed to have no destinations. For
Mrs. Stone was long past the wanting
of gifts and no companions, young or
old, sat with her, because she wished
to be alone with her memories.
She was not as alOne as she seemed
to be, for, in the great chair opposite
to hers memory placed the fairy figure
of the child who had glanced and
danced about the house and under the
Christmas tree of long ago Beside
her there sat one who seemed to lay
his hand again upon hers in happy
and satisfied affection, while there
bent over her the strong and tender
youth who was once her hope for later
years. Again the old house seemed
full of joy, and noisy merriment drove
out the deathly stiffness while the
tree that is always green spoke Of the
Immortality of happiness.
The next day, when the servants
dismantled the evergreen tree, 1t was
found that every gift was marked
with name, and they were busy that
Christmas morning in distributing new
happiness about the neighborhOod.
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flirting with the husbands wife. And
she was telling this as good joke.
Il wouldn't want that kind where
one goes one way and the other the
other way. And l wouldn't want to
be known as a wife because l was
quarreling with my husband
you know how you hear folks say
well, you could tell they were mar
ried. all right l don't want that
kind"
And you won't have it, little girl"
Bill said. I'm for your kind of ro-
nance every time. I'm for the kind of
a married life where folks won't think
we're married-we'll be so happyr'
And as Rosalind listened to her
Santa Claus, as she counted the days
before the wedding, she said to her
self:
'It will be an annual romance to see
Bill as Santa Claus, for 1t was as
Santa Claus that /, too, fell in love
with him as well as the children, and
every year our happy. merry memories
will be revived for us. We believe in
romance and romance believes in us,
for it, too, is going to play it's part
And someone who knew them both
said:
''1t wouldn't be bad idea If every
man could be as he was during his
courtship days for whole month of
every year,"
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APair Of Stockings
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
By Christopher C. Hazard

10, 1922, Western Newspaper UniOn.J
u UDDY SMITH had three ideas
- about his stockings-they were
full of feet, full of holes, and they
could be full on presents. 1t was with
regard to the third idea that he was
paying attention Il the second. Will
ing to go barefoot SnCer the circum-
stances, he was tieing up the holes in
his best stocking, with view to the
Christmas possibilities. His sister.
Agnes, had already hung up much
longer stocking with note attached
in which she Informed all who might
be concerned that this one was hers.
But Agnes, like the monkey that used
a rabbit for a muff and kept himself
warm by hugging it. was little sell
fish. Not only had she hung up one of
her mothers stockings, but she had got
an advantage over Buddy in the mat
fer of the chocolate cake in the cup
hoard for there were holes all round
il the size of her little finger.
So it was that on Christmas morn
ing the shorter stocking had the most
ia /
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THE ANNUAL
ROMANCE
BY Mary Graham Bonner
9. 1879. Western newspaper Union.)

p oSALIND was engaged to be mar
= ried. She was to be married the
day after Christmas. She couldn't
very well be married before then as
her fiance was so especially, unusual
ly busy at Christmas time. and it
would have been cruel, too, not to have
waited.
For Bill, her beloved, took the part
of Santa Claus every Christmas for
one of the big city stores He was an
ideal Santa Claus. He wasn't too tall,
he was not too short; he was rather
inclined to a stockiness of build, and
extra clothes made him look an ideal
round Santa. He had a ruddy face
and swapping blue eyes-qnd dressed
in Santa costume he was perfect.
How the children did adore hint
And how he loved theml They whis-
pered their secrets to him and their
eyes danced with rare happiness when
he waved goodbye to them and
called them:
"Sweethearts," and my dears," and
Children dears," and other affection
ate terms.
ROsalind had been thrilled when
she had heard him first, in his deep
beautiful voice uttering such beautiful
words For Rosalind had met him
first when he had been Santa Claus
and she had been an extra sales girl
taken on for the Christmas rush.
1t had been her first meeting with
him. But she had been kept at the
store after the Christmas rush was
over, and Bill had worked for the
store for seven years now. Every De-
cember he was Santa Claus. The 9th
er eleven months he spent in selling
kitchen utensils in the basement.
They had fallen in love with each 9TH
er, though, at this time when he had
been Santa Claus. And many a time
when he had said: "GOod-by dearie."
to child, he had been thinking of the
pretty girl who was at that very. mo-
ment selling dolls and giving her
smiles, her beautiful smiles to a moth
er or to children.
And now a second Christmas was
coming around, and once more Bill
was Santa Claus, and as soon as he
was through being Santa Claus they
would be married.
"pve always had lots of romance in
my nature" she said to him one eve
ming. 1--WE always thought it would
be awful TO be like some fOlks-some
l know and some I've heard talk One
lady who came to the store with
friend was telling bow she and her
husband got along perfectly. They
each had other friends, and sometimes
they met and embarrassed others when
they told that they were married. For
one time the husband had been having
dinner with a friend, and the friend
had been looking fiirtatiously at his
wife who was also in the restaurant
."sThe friend had been mach embar-
raised when he discovered he had been
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they SAID. But there was little nov
city in the fOrlOrn remnant of cans
upon the shelves, or in the half-empty
barrels and boxes under the counter
and maSsed in the corners of the room.
One man found stray box of sar-
dimes, and took possession of ii with
the remark THAI, while 1t was not
'Christmasy," he could have the sat
iSfactiOn Of knowing he was eating
the only sardineS in camp; another
drew out can of Boston baked beans
from behind squadron of tomatoes;
while third, of more investigating
and determined turn of mind, hunted
among the boxes and barrels until he
actually discovered a can of Cape Cod
cTanberrieS.
This brought the entire group of
Christmas hunters into a compact,
enyying circle; and while they were
anXiOusly debating the pro and con-
especially the con-Of division of
spoils, the door opened quietly and
stoop-shouldered, watery-eyed man en-
tered.
''Have you got any toys?" he asked,
hesitatingly.
The StOrekeeper stared, and unani-
mouSly, as though by preconcerted ar
rangement, the group around the
canned representatives from Cape Cod
turned and stared also.
"Any-what?" the storekeeper asked
blankly.
Toys" the man repeated looking at
the encircling faces with abashed EN-
things to play with, |
mean. like children have at Christ
mas. You see," with curious
mingling of apology and pride in his
voice, my little ten-year-old boy came
in on the stage just now-clean from
his grandma's, back to Missouri. I've
been sendin' for him these two years,
but couldn't seem to get TO it till
struck a vein last MONTH"
He lurched heavily against the coun-
ter. His watery eyes began tC fill,
partly through his condition and partly
from some long dormant tenderness
which was beginning to leawaken
THE boys considerable childish" he
went on, rOusing himself a little at
the consciousness of being listened to
by men who usually passed him with
out recognition, IAN likes things to
play with. So. bein' it's Christmas.
an he jest comm, why. | thought
mebbe I'd better hunt some toys"
"Of course" cried Dobson, the
sheriff, heartily and "Of course" "Of
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There were no dry and fancy goods
and notions upon the shelves, no show
cases upon the counter, no display in
the one dingy window. Such things
would begin to make their appearance
only with the coming of the first wom-
an, and that was not yet.
Rather a slim show for playthings.
Dobson," said the owner of the cram
berries, after a fruitless search with
his eyes from one end of the store to
the other. Don't s'pOse pack o.
playin' cards would dO?" as his gaze
paused hopefully on an extensive as
sOrtment of that popular article.
'They has pictures on 'em."
wouldn't do at ALL" answered Dob
son decidedly. "They amt moral; an
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Easily Managed

NOU must believe in Santa Claus
i If in neglect you would not pause
And see the holidays drift by
And bring you nothing but sigh.
He may not greet you If you wait
In idleness and selfish state
For him upon his way to start
To grant the wishes of your heart
For he his ways makes known to men
By means that are beyond our ken.
And as his journeying vast is made
He uses many a masquerade.
So IL scarcity you fear
In the supply of Christmas cheer.
Just hustle like willing elf,
And be old Santa Claus yourself
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the first kid who patronizes us has
got to be brought up moral. Say,
YOU" to the watery-eyed man, who
was edging towards the bar at the far
end of the store-"none O. that!"
None o. what?" asked tie man Quer-
ulously. II amt steppin' on your
toes"
mo, but you are on the kids. See
here" His voice had an incisive ring
which had made many stronger men
trelnble. You amt walkin' the same
line you was twenty-four hours ago.
Then you was poor, no-'count drunk
ard, who'd a right to dig his grave
without opposition from nobody; now
you're markin' out trail for that kid
to foller. See? Me an my friends
here amt no call to interfere between
father an son." dropping his voice to
an easy, familiar tone, and placing
hand encouragingly upon the tremu-
olus shoulder, 80 long as the father
makes good deal; but when he
slumps. his voice was still soft, but
the steely CLINT returned to his eyes
then me an my friends step in. Sabe?
Bein' the first kid in camp, we've con-
StitoOted ourselves his guardian-just
like every man in the place will do
soon's they hear of his bein' here"
He turned back 20 his companions.
The watery-eyed man, after one long,
wistful, farewell glance toward the bar,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-12-15
An Irresistible Impulse.

AS Christmas approached something
seemed to be worrying Freddie. and
when his mother questioned him she
found the boy was afraid he had of
Tended Santa Claus and that the good
man would not bring him anything
for Christmas.
sit was this way, ma" explained
Freddie. Il dreamed saw Sanity com
ing with the presents in his auto and
when the machine broke down I
yelled at him, "Git-a-horse ~
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sit is the first Christmas box l ever
received from one of my families" he
said. wasn't it thoughtful of them
to have remembered their mail car
rier?'
But the people were saying, ITO
think that we haven't done something
OF this sort every year. The mail car
rier does so much for US and we, at
times, almost seem to forget he's even
human!"
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b Oy w h o W a s
child. d. But there
W a s little they
saw; only huge
miners boots, py-
ramids of picks
and shOvels and
blankets, barrels
of flour and beans
and pork ; and on
the shelves, tobac-
co and a n n e d
goods, and a small
a S sort m e n t of
earthen and tin
ware; and then,
at the far end of
the store, a bar
for the accommO-
dation of those
who were thirsty.
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His Luck
20, 1922, western Newspaper Union,


"W ELL, I'll be getting lots of
presents soon," he said He
had just met some pleasant new
friends.
"Yes," he continued, christmas is a
good time for me. You see I'm popu-
lar with wives. / get notes from hun
dreds of them; there are any number
who write to me, and when Christmas
comes they knit ties foi me or buy "a
handsome silk handkerchief or two, or
fine muffier-a little thought of me
at any rate. And I've never been In
a divorce case yet" he ended.
you must be diplomat or luckier
than you deserve" someone remarked.
Neither" he answered. I'm mile
man and milkman's Christmas is apt
to be full of cheer and the good-heart-
ed ishes of the ladies !"
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THE MAIL
CARRIER

EOR many years. in good weather
4 or bad, day after day. he had fol-
lowed his chosen job faithfully and
well. He had carried many, many
Christmas presents in his day. too,
This year one of the families he had
served so regularly prepared Christ
mas box for him and for his wife and
for his children.
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Whats that on the top shelf" he
asked suddenly.
THAT? Oh, that isl Dunno" hest
tated the storekeeper, as he took down
the object in question and examined it
critically. ut got in with some goods
year ago, an has been up there ever
since"
why, you chump!" cried the cram
berry owner derisively, mot to know
a jumpin' jack when you see one
I've bought lots of 'em to home for the
children. See!" and he pulled string
which sent the acrobat tumbling up
over the top of his red pole. Just the
thing for kid
Just the thing" repeated the
watery-eyed man, drawing small bag
of gold dust from his pocket: it'll
make the boy laugh"
AS he was going out, the owner of
the cranberries stepped to his side.
Here, take this along with YOU" he
said, relinquishing the can to which
he had been clinging so fondly. It'll
help to make out Christmas for the
boy"
"And this, too" And this" added
the owner of the sardines and the
owner of the baked beans; and then
Sheriff DObson pushed before them
and slipped something bright and
heavy into the hand which held the
Jumping
''It's nest-egg for the kid" he said
gravely. "Now YOU better go home an
fill up his stockin'; an to-morrer you
can tell him Merry Christmas from US
ALL"
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Beginnings of Celebrations.

The holly, the mistletOe, the yule
log, the fir tree and many of the other
customs of modern-day Christmas cele-
bration had their beginnings in the
paganism of Rome, Druidistic con-
tinental Europe, and also in Germany
and the Scandinavian countries.
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course" came promptly from others
Of the group.
And then they looked about the store
inquiringly, eagerly, in search of some
thing that would please ten-year-Old
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Great Savers.

How our mothers and grandmothers
would have appreciated the wonder
fully efficient electrical appliances of
the present day. Probably most of all
the electric washer and ironer, be-
cause, if the proper machines are Sc
iected, they represent the greatest
economy. Not only do they save money,
time and backbreaking drudgery. but
he very clothes themselves.
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ATT is remarkable fact that
A&I nothing certain is known as
VI to the actual date Of the
birth of Christ, Dec. % be-
ing only tradition, adopted
by the church about the middle of the
Fourth century. Lupi, a learned Jesuit
of the Eighteenth century, says:
There is not single month in the
year to which the Nativity has
not been assigned by some writer or
other"
The earliest celebration of Christ
mas on Dec. % appears to have been
held in Rome in the FOuth century,
being first mentioned in Roman doc
ument. the Philocalian calendar, dating
from the year 354, but containing an
older record. referring. to the year
1856. Christmas was brought to Eng
land by ST. Augustine, and kept in
500, but it would appear that it was
not established In Germany until S13.
and in Norway about the middle of
the Tenth century, by King Hakon the
Good.
The Romans of the empire used to
celebrate the birth of the Unconquered
Sun on Dec. 25. according to the
Julian calendar. the winter soIstice,
when the sun began to rise in new
vigor, after his autumnal decline.
Therefore, the reason for the choice
of Dec. 25 for Christmas would seem
to have been symbolical
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-12-15
Have Breakfast Room Iidx.

Start the day right by having the
breakfast room aired and tidy, even
though more thorough sweeping and
busting Is done afterwards If the
table is set the night before light
cloth must be thrown over 1t.
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ALE Il dozen unshaven. red
Shirted miners were gath
cred about the dingy cOun-
ter of Bilger's, the one store
in camp. 1t was Christmas
eve, and they wanted some
thing extra for their dinner
on the morrow-just to keep
Them in mind of the day,