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Show A The Summit County Bee Friday, December 24, 1993 Lights on The Christmas Tree by Florence Page Jaqnea Once the Christinas tree lights were not lights at all. They were the colors in the CHRISTMAS m TO ALL With special thanks for your patronage and good will, we wish you a vciy happy holiday. Willoughby's Polar King Drive-In- n Coalville, Utah 336-237- 2 Have An Old S&shioned rainbow. Just a perfectly the kind good rainbow in the see sky after a you rain! And when Santa Claus made the very first Christmas tree, it was easy to see that, he needed a rainbow for a decoration. Because all the decorations he had were white, he lived at the North Pole then, you know, as he does now, and when he had powdered the tree with snow and hung icicles all over it, and tied snowballs on the ends of the branches, he looked at it and said, "No, it's pretty, but it ought to have some color on it. It needs some red and green and blue and gold." "Oh, Santa Claus, said the littlest White Bear; "Let's put a rainbow on it." "That's just what it needs," Santa Gaus agreed. "I'll send the biggest White Bear to get one." "Oh, said the littlest White Bear. He was so disappointed that the tears came to his eyes. "I was the one who thought of the rainbow. I think you might let me find it." "All right then, Santa Gaus said kindly. "But you must be very careful. Rainbows are easy to break, you know, and really you are the clumsiest funny little beflr "Oh, I will be careful," promised the Littlest Bear, and he ran and ran on his fist little legs "til he found the most beautiful rainbow. Then he picked it and hung it over his back and went home to Santa Gaus, walk- ing very carefully. He walked safely past the snow fields, and safely past the slippery slides, and at last he came to Santa Gaus steps. He saw Santa Gaus inside waiting for him. "Hurray 1" he laughed, waving his little front paws in triumph. "Here it is." And just then both his bade feet slipped and boom. He fell on his back and the rainbow broke into a thousand pieces. "Don't cry, don't cry," said Santa Gaus, hurrying down the steps. "You aren't hurt." "No, but the rainbow is," sobbed the littlest White Bear. "And I tried so hard to be careful." "Never mind, said Santa Claus and patted him gently. "Well put the pieces of the rainbow on the tree." So they picked up a blue piece and put it here, and they picked up a red piece and put it there, and the Christmas tree was prettier than if the rainbow had been all together. "Oh," said the littlest White Bear, "I'm glad I fell." And ever since then we have had beautiful rainbow-colore- d lights on the Christmas tree. JlCau your Jlolidays he bright and ihe miracle of Christmas never grow dim. Christmas May the wondrous sights and sounds of holiday joy embrace you and yours this season and all the days through. Many thanks, friends. Smctu Summit Summit County Small Engine Repair 3460 Ilwy. 189 Marion Utah 783-235- 7 Dave Wilson Designed by Wade Olsen |