Show HOME for ND ty WICKS WAMBOLD EN eba I 1 its great to got get home for christmas I 1 you have been away for the first time in your life holding down a job a thousand miles from the homo home town but now you youre relon on your way home for christinas rolling into a country that you know all about youage the first one off on the train ind and the first through the gate father and mother pre jire there waiting for you mother hugs and kisses you without a word but thero there ja a tightening of her arms that speaks span s much fattier father shakes hakes hands with you heartily icart y nn and tays bays well my boy youre looking one fine I 1 when you reach the car there are grandfather and grandmother find and aunt jennie and aunt molly and they nil all net act as though they never had seen anyone in their lives took look so good to themas them as you youl I 1 you climb into int tile tho front sent seat alongside your fattier father it Is christmas morning rind most folks are at home but you yoo so see an occasional acquaintance rind wave your hand gaily and shout merry christmas Christinn sill I 1 and one or two step out from the sidewalk anti and stop you arid say any well ill tie ie dogg dogged edi I 1 and shake hands hand handewith with you and tell you how glad they are to see sec you you are out of town now speeding over the road that out runs along the river that beautiful wide blue river where la in summer r you swam sw amand and boated and caught fish and in winter hunt hudt ed ducks there down the road comes a familiar figure with a gun on his shoulder and a dog nt at his heels I 1 it Is chuck andrews lie ile recognizes you a hundred feet away and grins joyously merry christmas t he ba yells your father stops the car and you and chuck grip hands im glad to see you he says how long are you going tobe home A week you reply fine and dandy I 1 says lie he enthusiastically asti cally ally there Is the biggest flock of wild turkeys I 1 ever saw over in cedar swamp and the quail are as thick as grasshoppers this year well start something the car moves on you are turning in nt at tho the home place you are purring up the avenue to the house cousin nat and cousin bill have your grip i ind hat and overcoat and carry them to your room suddenly you ask wheres reli uncle harry grandmother answers harry come lie he Is so far a away ay he felt he leave his business so BO long you ore are disappointed for uncle harry Is your favorite uncle and you have been lokling forward especially ally to seeing him you nil all sit bit down in the largo living room before the crackling fragrant log tire ire in the big fireplace all are talking at once then mother says mingo and marlit maria are in the kitchen dont you want to see them mingo and maria helped raise you you open the kitchen door nod mingo and maria their black faces shin and says with a grin you hit me where im weak ap ing with affection greet you with girl I 1 Chrls chrismas mas gif I 1 and maria hugs you and croons en ell dlaring names to you as she did when you were a youngster mingo hands with you and says tse ise sho ful glad to see sed yo Alt stall aam Sn inand and you tell them you have brought santa claus with you hack back you go to the bunel and a nd yon yo are no more than seated when tile Is the whir of a motor outside som body loohs out tile window and shouts shout 8 heres Har harry ryll I 1 everybody tries to get outtie door nt at once uncle harry natty and debonair as usual smiling from a taxi thought you coming 1 somebody yells had to cornel ho flashes back stand tile the Pros pressure surp then tile the folks crowd round him and lie ho pushes through to you gralis grabs your liand hand in both of ills his and says well heres sunil saml and he adds 1 I dont know us as I 1 should have come if I 1 known bo ba here li lets ets have the presents before dinner 11 borne one and thero la is a r rush u s 1 for t tile the T ages yaro are stacked high on oil thol tak ere sam 11 you give cm III out fattier father and you I 1 S la a pleased or nal what lle or she gets pretend endt stok peter sidles up to yo ith of cigars cigar in ills his hand SS you ono it aeran grill you lilt me abere berei 1 8 aa F VA presents are vl viewed 1 W elvel right in tile the midst 0 f it t revie 2 weak ve dinner la Is ready er you all pour into tile the danin there are eighteen of f you yen blo ble your fattier father sits fit arl one at the H your mother at tile oth other er end N alro at your mothers inot aers right 1 ther asks aska the to ark bless illg lii then th ther carves the turkey turl ey S th 94 jolly clatter plates er ill 1 are pa each has haa made tile the circuit circuit calved its load of good shingi after nil have eaten nil all they tk hold your mother pushes chair and rises r you all a follow and your grandfather it says to 0 mother sally that iva was a one g tier ner and uncle kob hob odds adds think I 1 ay ek can get along all right until supper 1 the family elfes alfas back into the IN 11 room mingo comes in and puts pm S wood on the fire and it e ra up tile the throat of t the 10 ell anney talk taia lags an and cousin 11 N not you who was the lie most pr oct the Chiffon chiffonnier nier your father cj you for a birthday Pr frelent pree elent nl child mentioned in the babler irl answer glibly job he be cursed curfie day lie he was born hearth one before says anys nat then you give not nat this one every lady in this land man has twenty nails upon each bini bial five and twenty on handa and r and this la in true without deceit say that again asks aunt 13 bat or you repeat the dogge doggerel reland anil p required to do so BO again ana an dagala again its nonsense ensell 1 declares co john hold says bays consla T there h er e Is s some 0 me catch in the pan punt atlon 11 and while the rest con coette to puzzle ho he takes out a pencil penell IE i au an envelope and writes the he down ive got iti it I 1 he announces rends reads overy every lady in this land hai bae twit ITO nails upon each hand five and tanti hands bands and feet everybody laughs and Uncle kee says a good one thea theat conundrums ny fly thick and fastuca ast 6 fore you know it tile the family be li BE in to eat cold turkey and an d other lifee left from dinner you spend the evening M andi jokes and you pop corn eat nil es and commit various gastronomic oe but who cares or christa comes but once a yearl yea I 1 should feel logy owl it i worth it to eve lalim W 1111 the tall clock in the hall bonniw boon iW and the folks say goodnight good night nil to bed i you go up to your room th tin w Y you 0 U always have had and have the lights are on there eherd cheery fire on the hearth the tint clothes are turned down bud ami 1 pajamas laid out your MO thet b licen can there you close the door look around there Is the tint that V father gave you for a wall I 1 r on the ent cut and paper picked it out yours yourself with thour w 00 eted er and you and she selected pot pet there la Is tile the tie tic rack w I 1 cousin marjorie Marj orlo gave gaie you yon alado embroidery hoops covered coy cred with r satin batill you go over to the closet peer in your shotgun Is right what L you left it you think of andrews sat said rb about out the iho wild tl and the quail oil boyl boy I 1 1 there Is a tap tal fit at tile tho door 1 I just jast vw mother comes in I 1 tell my boy good 11 ight YOU couii bed sit down on the edge ed ige of the YOU yon a talk afien she says ow scale rest BB go to bed and got get some 06 hugs and kisses you and goes and aima you step to the window windol the basli the full WOOD moon Is con moon southern only a OIL ta air la Is frosty nod perfectly I 1 you yo best off a dog Is barking J wm lowing softly A rooster ro i the moon crows for run flat J I 1 in n the village tile the chimes from froin matlin tower be b abot W hour L lord ord through this guide 11 that in thy power I 1 may down th alie e window 00 you put and climb into those va has bus laid out i mother your best the thed till 9 the light and DO know yo you u are on your you you tou have a the side bide of tile the bed oj thing wm sort of that skipping the tt M betseen veen you crawl in bet head beo d into I 1 J the ard and snuggle your crew A delicious drowsiness you tee jee I 1 its great to get briw ft its 1927 we western storn |