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Show I , I I II I II :1 1 : . - t " ' . . . - ; : " , - - . ; I a . c- c cIE ' - . . : > IE : IE.N -.N .N - . .NC . -C C ' - _ > N I i BILL t > ILL YARDLEY poked atentahve a ' AJ tentative tentahve eye outside his hisI I blanket It was daylight at atlast atlast last Across the tiny cabin cabinJim cabinJim Jim was snoozing snoozmg quietly his hismeaSUl hisrneasuied meaSUl ed breath almost almostdrowned almostdrowned drowned by the roaring roanng wind windoutside windoutside windoutsideBill's outside outsideI outsideBIll's I Bill's Bills ' eyes surveyed theI the I | cabin cabm with its old Btove stove and andI andrIckety andrickety rIckety furniture Cozy Cozyenough I enough perhaps , but this was wasno no way to spend an entire entirewinter winter even for the sake ake of feo-eraphical feo eraphical geo- geo geoI geographical - - graphical accuracy Several hun hundred hundred I dred mile miles to the south in WinnipegI Winnipegthe Winnipeg I the eovernment government office was wa witinxi waitingI waiting waitingfor I for early iprine spring when Bill and Jim Jimcould could finish their lurveyine surveying assign assignI assignment assignment I ment anj and brine bring back a report reportc I . . t tl \l l \ " c " Tke The fll pilot t dumped Jim ye J rerkBarJ overboard a buce bucebundle ( ; bundle bundleAhead b l Ahead meinwhile meanwhile were two monUu monUuof monthsof of this maddeninf maddening snowbound ai- ai ailence i- i - - lence . Bill B1l1 i s elince glance drifted to the th calen calen- calendar calendar - I calenI dar Suddenly he cauxht caught his breath- breath breathI breathJiml breath - Jim Jiml ! be shrieked Wake Wak * upl uplWake uplWak Wake upl Do you know what day daythis daythis I this isi isiJim Is ' Jim froined groaned itlrred stirred a bit bit . , and andI andanswered aadanswered answered ileeplly aleeplly ? . I Tuesday 'Tuesday ' ain t It ? And 10 so whaU what"Jiml whatJiml ? " Jlml It Its s Chriitmas Christmas Evel ' . 'A A I IJlml A few minute minutes * later they found foundthemselves foundthemselves themselves tarmc stanng blankly out the theI thewIndow th thwindow I window aimo alma t wishing they d nev never never er discovered it was ChristmasIt Christmas I ChristmasI | It wsi was kind of ot childish to let on onthat onthat that you earI'd earId c rod ' Bill thought So he heput heput put torithe on his parka and headed tori forjthe the doorI door Ii doorLet Let s 8 toilet forget it Jim he advisedI advised I I ' I m going Koin ( to look at our traps and andget andget advisedI . I get some fresh sir aIr Be back loon sooni I ' It was no picnic trudtinf trudging through throughlrneedeep throughknee-deep throughknee deep lrnee-deep lrnee deep - - drifts rifts for two hours To Tomake Tomake make it worse the traps were all allempty allempty empty Evtn Even the animals were st8Y st8YIng stayine Ing inside in this weatherWonder weather weatherWonder Wonder It 1 ! they U 11 miss Christmas Christmastoo Christmastoo'1 Christmastoo1 too ' ' he mused as he neared the thecabin thecabin thecabinSuddenly cabin cabinSuddenly Suddenly he be heard a faint hum in inthe Inthe the sky It frew grew nearer Unmls Unmlstakably Unmistakably takably a motor-an motor an motor - an alrplanel alrplanelBill airplanelBill Bill raced for the th cabin doorA door doorA A plane Jim ! ! he cried Get Getsome Getsome some black smok smoke * going ( oinf up the thechimney thechimney chimney I ! Then be h raced out to tothe tothe the clesrinjE clearing clesrinjEThe clearingThe The pilot saw him gesticulating gesticulatingwildly gesticulatingwildly wildly or else be he saw the fresh freshblack freshblack black smokt smoke over the th cabin The Thebig Thebig big ship circled flew ftew off to the north northturned northturned turned and came back flying low lowOver lowOver Over the clearing It almost stalled stalledas as the pilot dumped overboard a ahuge ahuge stalledI I huge bundle that plummeted Into Intothe intothe the snow almost a at t Bill s feet Then Thenhe he waved w vcd and sped away 1 j They got it inside somehow somehowthoucb / though they wanted to o open n the bun bundie dIe right where It landed Once tht therope > rope wa was . torn loose an nn oilskin pouch pouchHew I new out . A . A . irte note was inside From Fromthe the bOilIn boss bOil bossIn In case you boy boys . have forgot forgotten ten It read re8d tomorrow's tomorrows ' ' Christ Christmas forgotI I mas Herewith the makings Includ includIng Ing some presents your families familiesasked aslted us UI to send lend along alongBill Bill BUI sad and Jim looked at t eack eaeb oth } ! er then the they , cheered ebeered . . I | ' 'Merry Merry ' Chrlatmast Christmas . asked .aked aked . BUL BUL"Why BULWhy ' " "Why Why " It a tie the best beat evert everl . Walt BULI n 0you I you taste last * this thla turlteylt turk.eyll turkeyll . ' " |