Show zeA eA q 9 e l tY 5 iE E WAS very young He was also very chubb There was a kind of pink shining newness about about t him delightful to behold And he stood waiting I Inear o th near side of twelve o'clock midnight J EV E V WAS AS ASvery very old He was also very bent There t J was a kind of shining sadness in his eyes as if he Dd had seen more than anyone any one else in the world And s hc e stood on the far side of twelve o'clock midnight I HAT I cant can't understand chirped up Chubby b ti b why lAY anyone need look so aged when they arc are year old ople would take you for Methuselah any day What I cant can't understand rumbled tumbled the ancient one Is s show how I ever looked as pink and inexperienced as you So there they stood regarding each other Chubby and the ancient one Why must you look so old 1 persisted Chubby Because I have lived more than a million lives I 1 Whew C whistled Chubby How do you make that out know well enough my son said the ancient one one thus time next year But tell me now I insisted the young cherub I look old because I have been part of the sorrow the gladness the misery the Joy and happiness of everyone in the world I have been a year every day hour and minute in the lives of people allover all over the globe They could no more escape me than I could lose them Ve We were one one-I one I and those teeming millions I will live with them as long as they live through the I influence of what happened during our year of acquaintance I Imay Imay Imay may live after aner them not only in memory but in the good or bad they accomplished while they knew me and I them Chubby wrinkled up his white babyish brow and tried to follow the words of the ancient one But he could not It was impossible for him He could see sec and feeland feel and act perhaps but buthe buthe buthe he could not think wisely he needed experience One two three avo three four five the bells belli began ringing out the midnight hour Goodbye sons son I called out th the ancient one May you see as much happiness as sorrow And may you learn to read the high hopes in peoples people's hearts and see what they see no matter how differently their lives turn out This is all that really matters remember the voice of the ancient one grew faint and away faraway far remember son it is their aspirations that really count not their visible a and d worldly success It He was now He was part of yesterday Chubby stepped over the threshold into his first minute of being The Happy New Year all very well he thought but I cant can't understand why he should look so old l 1 Perhaps he will by midnight of 1926 f fCo Aa Co I x Nn u U |