Show A A A 4 k oil S A day B before are henry christmas story samuel EKl and in three throe parts eart 7 wilbur D ne loit car I 1 I 1 h 4 by W C ch part 0 one 7 t EV arthur mont gomery simms 81 sinclair BIn claIr wa was suf f btag in the flesh and in the spirit A cup of tea was in his hi right band hand a wreath of holly dangling dangl liiK I 1 from ir 0 in that wrist and 11 1 I lancey handing standing at bli his left and in erupting te big profound remark remarks to mies miss ursula mien ilen nude made at combination to try hit foul soul the words the glances 1 the smiles that he felt were mere meant for him were being coolly appropriated by 1 P 1 llmer ong ng ora 1 orse than that I 1 P willmering Wll Wil mering moring wae was ablo to alp ip bin hl tea without allowing the holly to slid ltd to ills hi houlder shoulder nor waa was he the lio tick ling 1119 the wrist of I 1 11 As 44 it wa that of her iter simms sinclair ia Wilmer faig acted ai as it he might have sipped tea with loth both handa hands cuffed bo be hind bled him toy filim sinclair al at most wished hie his rival were ere ID in that predicament di and about forty balien 11 away rit t the same time now jones who was wa patiently putting holly and ever over tree green about the woodwork and picture pictures tho the three men had graciously come to help net get things ready for the chil C en ns party jones we say ay wai was not no bothering her iley simms sinclair jones wa was not bothering any one in tho the main in it wa was ursula alien allen who bot bota red tho the reverend young gentleman gentl emaD women young w omen cau bother the mind of man without intending so 10 to do an aa them they will assure you they never have hare any auch such dinten ion don that Is I 1 exactly what urach 1 I 1 len ten would have told you but she he would not ot have believed belley ed bor her own statement for areula wai was a woman and find ahe she be herself to be attractive thie this belief waa was shared by her simms BInn sin clair cl alrand and P I 1 and but jones count ah ab alev simme simms sinclair d doing a hermann the areat movement and sod c capturing his cup beare it jumped from the edge of the saucer ah what would christmas be without the ILO children 41 ilia HI eye eyes took on a li nellow look aud he greed at the two wo young people before him what would christmas bo be without the children t were you peaking to me asked jones after neither of the others had an applied iiga alm as a sinclair with a reply er ah that li is ray toy remark waa was purely a it general one explained the rector roctor of ot BL SL bauli a kind of an why prop laid said delancey i or he be children without christ ansar liked asked ursula handing landing another bunch batch of evergreen to jobea onto poor family down in Abbl edalu edalo alley box exta ebil drou Six sixteen think of 1 fellow ought bially to think of oft teen children in installments dh de dared elated I 1 earnestly car notly it I 1 have to think of til of them ut once id rd rather think ct 0 an orphan orphans home ard be done with ILI 11 ROT simms sinclair aw saw his to watt blin himself into tho the wave cf of thai that was bengt vr ula oula it waa was one of thise tie ties which hey simm simms waa was condou ally looking for and few tow of which os aped him when by 11 I 1 N alliner Wl linter liner tog ing what can the father ot of those little nes dothe Inqui inquired ted pathos in hi bit voice to bear him one could con jure jute ill oil pictures pic turca of a worn weary nan tran coming corning home in the gloomy twi tight light disentangling himself from thirty two anni arms and trying to annaer six alx lx utti simultaneous requests reque ita for a penny wha what can the tho father of those poor one cuts dof dot he repta restated rep ted at tho the ame same time giving giali g ursula a glance of at yearning affection which that young lady gilgut or might not interpret as a being intended for lomeli or for the buffering suffering father ot of children write to Root evolt suggested jones who wae was handing standing on a chair and arid trying to harmonize a strand of cypress and holly beerts ith a rubt cund tage of good old uncle jethro alien allen abo had fought bled and died in the mexican warend war and lived to teil at 11 of ot coun course had so busine blaw batting boiling in 10 at lit uch such A tm 11 II waa was there to aalt oaly la to th of decer atlea and not dot te to umpire the lev lavo caroe came of f the iter 81 1 and P WIlmer talt ursula dimow 1 I wal everybody to bo be beppy on christmas dy day carld if it there I 1 te anything I 1 can do or say for ter teem oo 00 Christ Chr dt rv eve I 1 am only too gladi glad of it and AW it to limply simply boble ot f jm you toon to help so much le 0 o gotti getting sig the be ready jenft who b was wall kostric as n oae one cc arv at d dm dw deeon wu with son en tea c ran arl er aroa a 0 entwining serpent rp ent lanced glanced at the tea blips IP and then laughed its a well oil a man may be expected to laugh when hie his hilarity li Is strained itral neI through a lorried row t f tacks and teeth delancey walked down the room to study the effect of the decoration decorations and simms sinclair drew nearer tn to ursula to lay say loftly I 1 ou era ere speaking ipe akia ct of wanting this thi to he be a happy christmas for all mill uraula and that if there as a any thing you could say ay or do you would be only too glad now there li Is one poor lonely coul soul that you can cheer at this thi time it is 1 defore before he could finish delancey lancey Dc came comeback back and itea he bimm sinclair to I 1 jet et wondering whether ho tie fractured a commandment by concluding hie his remark romark with a reference to a poverty stricken of his who had bad been released front jail only to learn that hie his job had hail not been hell for him during bli bin stay lay in the cella cells toor poor amill nun ursuli sighed IN e must taice tace a basi et to lie hi family he lie tins un children aou tay say I 1 so e that li Is fine of or you splendid ah ali what hat would mould christmas bo be without the without It hout the ho mistletoe delancey Dehu icey interrupted I 1 simm strums sinclair take a look at that wreath jones hat has hung upon the brow ot of the buit bust ot of grand pa alien allen As an arbiter arbit erot of what la Is elegant and decorous in this community doean t it give the benign old gentleman rather a bacch bacchanalian anAllAn air alaf such guch an idea ideal ursula gurgled glancing at the bust chile alle the rector waa was adjusting the wreath on grandpa alien allen delancey Dt told ursula that be had something to ny to her when she he had a moment to pare my good goodne tal she said 1 I I donti ilon kno v when hen I 1 am m going to hare a reet rest ful ri ament unta ritter new year a hut this will only tako take a minute maybe shall I 1 put the mistletoe on the chandelier or will you trust to luck jones asked suddenly from behind de do la lancey ticey and delancey Delanc cy ig is quite uro sure he consigned jonee jones to a place whore christmas to 1 entirely I 1 t kneir kno we and had any mistletoe ursula pouted it Is 1 a wrong idea tt tell girls about the mistletoe toa eloe simms sin clair remarked ponderously 1 I may say li Is a it relic of an ancient pagan rile file and should be those bagato had their faulta fau its do de lancey asserted then with a feeble mile but they always stood up for their rite rites A puni punt said aid ursula sarcastically puns give me the crep creeps pun puns I 1 may say ay bays been ch char ai as the lowest order of wit it e kal A N 0 4 xi 14 L IT W V YOUNG I 1 f rev alara it wa as but another nother 1 ono one ot of the opportune tt he 1149 w w for ead and for jut just no an instant he fu felt be he bud bad wred hilly on an delta delan cey oey but yva c art cut lu tell what bat the pan pun was and stid that one than making ne dwany Dela neey retort fl new let a not dot quarrel over aver it lt urla sula 10 wonder lao lai what bas bome of mr mcadam cAdam il lie prommel prom lel to be here bt too to hp not jabs jabes Mc leadam Adami the railroad or gunar gun sr or ells organizer or whatever you ym cil him blancey ake risked YM yes and two tso or at three other others ittai a a it let lot of f pretty irl thy they are coming tonight to assist I 1 chose the prettiest prett leit ones I 1 know because you men must bare have beauty about you As A far as its I 1 am concerned de lancer lancey vowed 1 I stand with the old prussian poet what hie his name the fellow that spiked his verses with capital letter letters and asked whether you got cot off the car at this corner or rode as far ar an the barn barns hat in the world are you talking about uraula ursula asked I 1 mean the chap that wrote that thing to the lady and told her that as a long aa as he be had her and a cold bottle and a best selling book the wilderness would be a furnished apartment w with ith a kindhearted kind hearted janitor simms sinclair gravely took a cup from the table and studied it before correcting 11 N ll il mering he ile wn was sure P ll mering needed correcting because of the effect it would have on ursula and besides of such 7 N z I 1 7 KAN DELANCY itma to to laz an order did not on nu ot t with fib hia his approval 1 it was as not a prussian poet he be an pounced it waa was a Ic ralan omar khayyam and he A muffled mumble camo from jonea jones are ou choking on a tack sir mir coues ursula cried going toward him I 1 told you to be careful jones took some tacky tacks I 1 on orn be teven hie his lips and explain hat re te had bad merely been laughing mr mir jonca jones alwaes alwa sees the funny ide side of things ursula bald said simms sinclair heard board this statement ith calm approval IN an not the laugh on P NIl mering hat I 1 id d like to know ursula remarked is 1 which of you Is going to play santa clau claus tonight nelch of us alt asked simms sin clair A man of my cloth could hardly 1 I must beg of you to excuse mo me from cuch such a sk how now simms sinclair could think rapidly when ho he had to and juit just then he was as wally swiftly reflecting that whoever enacted nac ted the role of sinta santa claus would be kept from ue tie tide side of ursula the entire evening alio also P N timer linter ing delancey could think quickly no santa claue claus for him lie knew what he wanted santa claue claus to give him and he knew know if it ho he played binl he be would mould not got a chance to ask for it 1 I haven t any conscientious baru pie ples ho he explained but I 1 take tho the part of santa claua claus I 1 haven it the noeh flesh the spirit in 14 willing but the flech Is missing sinclair to t au all right for the part lies lie fat sir from flimm Simma sinclair lie fat and good natured some time and hee hes fond of children eliat hat would christmas Chrt itma be he without them simme simms sinclair kIrT I 1 it be santa jones offered oh you re the very nan man for the part part ursula beamed get a better agreed the rector juit just what you should do delan cey asserted nut but wit res mr sir Mo Adara UP eula sula aked risked lir JI N gald said he would come this sure mcadara mcadam has his troubles los delar cey eald said lie ile always me ai as a very clover clever gentleman mayhap a trifle crude but then 0 1 0 they juit just want to eue us him for merging a lot of railroad railroads ana mak ing a lot of or money delar Du larey ey ex plat tied in thi this country if it you don t tra arlie le money tome some one on wu sue you and ai at boon soon as you do make money they begin picking out the jury lie ile will be here though ursula declared positively mr ir deadam keeps his promises lie ile does wb what t 1 l he says ho he will do lie Is 1 one of t snoie ose big bold agres lve men who conquer all obstacles obet aclee howdy div all tome some one said heart ly ij bother to ring jut just walked in jeems there in the hall hill sem seem to want me to but I 1 convinced him I 1 calling on aitu were ah all glad to see se aou ou at any rate ursula smiled 1 I was only tbt this moment saying aying you would be sure to I 1 aeme ye yes mcada lalih A 1 avor board iau while waa was getting his breath glad to have a friend trieva at court IN ish you d be on the bench if they ever serve those paper papers on me mo now ow what up here e eve been decorating for to christ mas christmas to be sure tomorrow you kno know this li Is christmas E ee e you don dont t say ay I 1 to been so busy I 1 haven t kept track of holidays not even fourth of july or thanksgiving except sundays have to remember sunday sundays don t we simme simms sinclair he ile pronounced the rector rectors a name a at it was spelled simms sinkler it if you please said that gentleman stiffly it rattled ruffled him to have any of his parishioners forget that ho he was not of the common run of Sin clairs and to permit them to forget it might affect his hi standing as rector of st pauls sura surel have flare it your own way but why don t you say it the way 3 ou spell it or spell it the way vi ay you say it its wei the way we english pronounce it and one naturally wishes to have his name pronounced as an he of course my boy sure surat simm simms sinkler then how flow a that sound delancey said eyeing ursula but she was studying the holly over a picture aall cu tastes differ some people may want to take delancey foi foe a name and some may want to take how flow about that jones you never can tell jones replied brun brushing hing some holly leaves from his hi coat oh I 1 guess you can tell all right enough all you got to do is find out that right miss bliss ursula 1 now our work here ie in over tor for the present ursula evaded 1 I must begin my round of christmas visits I 1 have any amount of presents fur for my poor charges and dont forget miss niles froula begged simms sinclair that you promised to look in on some of 1 my worthy orthy N parishioners there a th the man who lost his position look here mcadam remarked bluntly I 1 it I 1 d known miss niles ursula was going to run around and see each fellows objects of charity blest it I 1 have had ten or fifteen men fired tor for christmas week anyhow I 1 but 1 the cases I 1 mention are real simms sinclair stated theres that man with the tree free sll oil vcr ter ratio of children delancey sug there are a goodly number 01 ol them calmly continued the rector 1 I have a wedding edding it ceremony to pep per form at six sit and cannot devote the time I 1 should like to the visits NN hen I 1 took my degree at oxford I 1 promised myself that never should a 9 christmas go by without my visiting the poor madam pulled from his pocket a hugely corpulent roll of bills the outer wrapper had a 0 on it and the bundle was as thick as his wrist he lie flipped the bills against the end ol 01 his thumb and said III I 1 II 11 not be left out III just guelf one of them shinplaster shinplasters a into each ol 01 mies atlas ursular baske me I 1 nay irray n ay be late getting into tho the game but ill make my ante good III go along with you on this gool samaritan trip and scatter seeds of sunshine ian I 1 aw 11 I 1 X va baratt HIA nm iaia yr then some kind of a song about scat bering seeds of sunshine there Is simms sinclair informed mm im well money talk talks but we well 11 make it sing ring this time eh eill blat Is to simply imply grand of you mr mcadam ursula assorted and me mo adam felt blit hi heart thumping lercell against Ls i vest vell 1 I know yog yos are a map who ante ants to ake the amr for lit tie tle children happy arent you serel sorel of courso going to have a 2 bunch of them hwe tonight arent you mighty pretty yes yc mr sir boiles put mot at ham up don it you think ta the chedro wip will ilk thein aw should lav say got so tell what ill III just t tie some a ahn mik asvery ry toot pr or r rn aton r et of crew stav 71 7 1 t 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