Show ader fa eto e wil te HE christmas tree haa boo come com do dotto to be I 1 fre from times mas be TO yond it men recorded r I 1 axy kimory tor re ir IRE 1 a all deorle hills be their bg enax tell of it its be al i g alb nobody y the thee day baat bothers h m much about its or late for uie tile Lh lat tree one it IB one me of if thoc thi things no go thick a brems to explain itself or not to need nv explanation but bul a feliy till tile mistletoe that 1 in so an many hom armaly no he ham home where there them are toung people is without at least one bunch hung la is as aa much of the he el on raise scheme ime i a the true tree itself and why by 1 18 it ft per cutly factly and quite the thing to tc kits ids under the mistletoe 1 IA V h hy the III 1 ti dedicated to loe loco lo e and kissan of course conver 1 la a sign agn of 10 a 2 among 29 9 11 di he nations 1 I 1 till tills must it be so for far there her 1 Is a perfectly legend in inn trin thin that tell oil nil about it once upon a it time in a the there was w a god lamed ad baldur badma who hod had all charge rg of the san sunshine shine mid and all tile the bright old and ben beau total taj things 9 thid that sunshine him helps help to make oils his father ind and mother ft oden and frigga for whom wednesday and friday Y are darned ad were arm is lery proud of their allow haired but bo for IF he be we was an handsome and good natured that even busly body loved him Flary everybody bod well not but quite th there to we was one a dark god named loki w im ho had rare care of file and ad all 11 the terrible filings it d does and tills this loli lo 10 k I 1 hated blood baldur bitterly for far in the spring vou a know the people all left the hearth fire that loki look lack ed ad after and went out to rejoice ho he cause baldur had brought back the glorious I 1 sun A and to for r this loki lohl listed hated ofia baldur bim more or and nd 1 more m each asch year im and longed 1 to hurt him in some dread dreadful lul dav it denied however that baldur id co could never or be injured ur made miser aimi abla when im he be grew up he be married tried nanna which means blossom bloom in and ads every day he looked d dan hap pier than beffi e but one morning he coke greatly troubled he be had dreamed of living W U he hat t could it menn this dream dmm of death to the god of jor jova and the next best eight it came a nom I 1 and ad the amt and ami the next t I 1 A bis h er and mother were EO an wor war IS lout aal is led th that the could not I 1 sleep and at 1111 ind length his rot father r woden V etim went far d flown don on ha into the I 1 land it of night bod to talk albal with t the he a evil ones net the there and nod find out act shot the intended bolande d to do to in his boy bay and A what her do you 5 suppose up pose he found flood A tub table set act to for those who h must at come came to the land of darkness darkes and it on one sent cut loache was ti prepared lepor it tor for baldur almost ahmod wild with hill orm wait woden hurried harried hick bilk with the ar sorrowful w fill message to ills his wife fe al meanie lille how however frogs frigga had ben thinking and it thinking and it just a id it latius I 1 she fhe gate gale him the joyful new a that she had hit upon the my may plan to so sao a their that aad son the nan 1 well it waa us this they should blood bend 11 out no nil all ole 01 cr the horld ani ask k everything tn the t trees an n toa alie rocks I 1 the ile mountains mountain the animals ito he ill waiters ei Ill en thine odne to lo promise esver to tiann harm their woden was two with plan so the acma ers went out all over aver the world and asked to never to is 1 harm con bidder baldur and all the world orld seemed to think it waa a IT abne alna 4 for far everything aled got gave 0 the promise levei apier er 1 I 1 to h the ile sao yellow haired tog god of an ebin ahir h cf everything eryll lg 1 in all the war I 1 stood M except dept jut one a thing I 1 alie 01 ol hill huns on an the eielt om oak batrice ahon the I 1 home of tile the imil ends I 1 Is as feeling out but of boffa tit 11 1 1 the mrs mca dienger case 1 Pr ann u vw w III never neier never intrain tile the god of 1 said the me enser adv mould I 1 make sudi such a pro annn teel laor aad the mistletoe ir is b 4 6 ac al so the m ani cengr told about draw and va V ad oden 8 visit to the land it of night bight and the plan to sae a buld baldur cornel pre promise ise I 1 bid bald the ger A all 11 0 alie world 1 la promising 1 I 1 hlll I not or promise mid bald the lie and toe and he did dlan I 1 in spot spite of all 11 the messenger could old sav rod but rh nho r careda led I 1 hat but could old bov thing eo el rail frail fill as the mistletoe do to harm baldur his ref refusal I 1 I 1 wag to forgotten in it the general rejoicing over the tact fact that all lie hie w world rid had prom ased never ealer t to 0 inam B baldur iu r bior and an d the r rejoicing j g nas great t and it when tile the rejoicing was as at its height the gods J just jt t for a talk laik began to throw things it at baldur knowing noth ing could hurt him what tun run they did huvel hovel one on would abr throw w a rock rack nn I 1 other n spear poor another a bull ball of fire fim and ad two or three on gi tong together would nold hurl her a whole trell tree trunk but as an scon ns as drew draw near lum him it J leaped ped to one side aide or the other mn and refused to on encke him now that tha wonderful one d dai as the 3 oung g gods god were I 1 shouting over tile the way they could I 1 hit bit him an old woman unman seeing I 1 rigga ig I 1 ut at tier her spinning wheel asked naked that t the h r ind and noise were arm hout about oh fins answered weird proudly proud iv the gods are an aning amusing ing themselves try m ing 1 to it I 1 rt TH my b boy I 1 y in hut chev re can no nevi er do it for all OF a have promised never to intran harm him I 1 the that BO exclaimed claimed the old wm woman n Kiem hing acl ever everything thing 11 in tile the war world il except am the little mi nh who of f course coures t hurt albod f I 1 am glad abut to heir it mid eald oo 00 the old woman so as she I 1 turned ad sale the old woman ins wag IS laki jokl in ills a ia he hurried rr straight tv b to the old oil oak amused up lip hill lit cut n R pier piece if f ills ani no to ill m link deit do turn burned the hie II der bit of I 1 line ile hv bv rone nine lc be I 1 into n long ing clarp am poor then with till the evil weapon lie r rushed hed to 10 lebei flo the godere ame flavine vins flit ho 1119 over ahe a fun care except on on blind lo iloner hodur who MH so an unhappy b lie ile could old not see ace that he seldom smiled and almost never laughed hy y dill ilowit ion il no play mald ached loki how can a blind pod id P Y an noun hodur Borrow loki laughed loudly wh vvhs III show he you how he ha suld stand here amand and throw this spear with III all your might hodur took look the spear mear tt it as loki directed and hurled it II with all Qs ue power of his strong arm am it hiss his ed ad ti stough aa all the air it struck baldur tile the omd god of redal sunshine tell fell deada the forgotten little thing tile the mistletoe told had killed a god I 1 silently his body w was put upon do his ship and all w was As made ready for far send ing the v 1 out 0 a sea me as wa on the custom bb among the gods TH then I 1 came N nanna id his wife to me eee him for the last time but R when hen she saw the beu beau ticul bellow hair about the white alint face she could not bear the sight and it fell fail dealt dead beside him and so an side aide by side aide toy lay upon the great ship be as it was let et afire and floated out but into the file far oft off ocean 10 and of at ev evenings emils when th the sun 1 Is going do annn vou rom yourself inny bay see ballue g ship still burning in n the to distant s vest vast but n all nature refused to be cone com forted it mourned BO bitterly that Z hela r restored estore a R aldor fe af I 1 star aster till time G so a tl that I 1 at emin came back to M the world irl ain moreover r soll to in put the mil mistletoe on its g good isi be beh ailor lialo the gotte gods deemed decreed that f forever cier and for forever r it should be frig fing go gas sacred lor lored plant und and evermore are should road brand for friendship and oil I 1 borc sm rut that L cokl k might never base have anything avoul 9 to do with the mistletoe tile gods declared that it must never come came down to his chand the he warth earth it no to this day it grow tar far up 1 an fn the a trees toad and at brit ild 1 Is hung ahoy our hearts in 11 the bouve aln nd since anre the mistletoe la Is the slim im f f drip and love suit and christ Is the time of peace or bud and go good it will III af am c n h no I 1 lon higinio ie maidel complete w without lahout th the dd creen arran linnich with its waxen aam barlics uncertain 1 I know fellow who la Is 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