Show happy new year hy by ri acius COOK ij H i i iii 1 i I 1 ii T WAS nn n uninteresting lit a tie town downor or so it seemed to H young oung vendell cold bleak the trios most t cheerless place on oil 8 earth to spend tile winter holiday y cc oxe acison ison ngon tie lie was there on oil business busine for hla his farm Christin jis lind land been be en a sj S j grand flasco as fur fair as 11 he e s j was conceio lied ito he had no 1 relatives mid lie ha knew no one about whom lie eared enough to send evena even a Christma sicard it wua was new years eve ee lato late in tile afternoon lio lie left the llie one hotel botel hint the lie town could boast about and did paid and walked lowly tile the street II 11 was not that dohert Ite lidell felt loneliness one must have known knowli it 11 friend to 0 o experience that en emotion wilon lip HP bol bored ed all unit hat the lie holidays meant to him faint att MIL wreaths und string iba holly liol lv one hult concealing wholly ugly rhan dellerA and tile perfunctory merry christ nin or If tippy sew N year tint ev seemed it necessary to i tiny naly to to him how could people ref lilli suel silly menning meaningless fess phrases lie wondered they possibly menn them listed them lie he wandered ingv nn an art shop that attracted fit hlin ot ont it of curlo curiosity sIty lhnn n dera decare re to buy there was tin no i orte one he wanted to tn buy anything for what n bore ire fe was ai lie ile about to leave atlie shop tile kindly little old nian behind lie counter called chaeny after napp new year robert turned and I 1 looked nt at ili hl there was in the twinkling blue eyes of tile the old min inan that tunde him wonder tin and lie he help asking what cnn ann there possibly be that hat th la new the old niana anians eyes just twinkled pe he seem nt at nil nii surprised by the tili question estion ile ho merely kept n silence eliat seemed scented to tilde hide all nl the wisdom in ili the world work wol went on how flow can there possibly bo anny hap happiness for one elio Is alone in fit ohp world the young old eve acri twinkled more brigl itly und tind tills time little tife the lips spoke otte one cant be alrtle when cod Is bis friend 11 NOW 1101 kobert ert kept silence then he sullied smiled doubt 14 fully and went out but not before th the eoll old mutie anti calm volta called inar 1 1 h 2 EF r the old man seem searn at alt all sur rily utter him film it k liln neu net year flobert had been ean invited to a new years yeara ke eve dunce and lie he returned to in his hotel to dress dreis A buhl ness tit nr in tile lie town lattif ewd hin to come and he accepted ro for r polite I 1 reasons rather alinn from ully desire 1 sije to mingle with will loa society it was nt at the dunce dance that clobert met kibel she interested him hills at ince jalli and with businesslike business like lie he fill el booked tier lier for most I 1 of the file dandeo of 0 tile the when ito stoben herl returned ae 1 I if tc new ew vort the doy day after new e henrs lie perl encee for lie list first line in ill lare III aln s e n 4 aaion of gwi kohle or of till lie rt fc 11 st happy tit in lit ills new for tic lip had the of fit it 11 pall of for dark ing ees to lf cr hk bl lone tin alnesa ll ess nesa INI more 0 re than olli ome P in ill tile I mi lie nc aion tb 1111 ht business trips to tile the alit lle le lown willai ahe aara gyps i binl te beforce fore another vear had anissea lils 1114 loneliness awl hn turned into int joy for lie be bud ik owner of the lie eves es sal at hla his own rotelue t bia birin sta tit bilta perils nent v it in alit little town which it yelle licitr uvo aira lind the most ehe cheerless erless pot on in earth and robert mid and F thi down to a cosy imir rIed lifo life it was new lt eve lu oil tind md linbert wits in tile the I 1 attla url jirl where tile old man with th tb lz blue eca still presided 1 1 I behind nd ille tile counter this time tit aeri ieri lind lidid gojit cd bif V ith Int inions eill lie ile lind a frame for OIK of rw v to graphs gr aplis happy new year lie he willa said cordi cordially nily to ow hie little old anim the blue eyes twinkled knoyle knoy ln ay alid nd he said 1 I 1 thought there was liol new robert smiled good tilt I 1 oreilly ur eilly it was a very ery aln crent smile fron 1 1 it doubt fuS 1 one that land had curled ills his lips 1 i the year eforo h fori tie he lind left tilt the shop 1 I found love loe then lip hp replied but love loe new it iti Is rt as old H R 4 ui us ever ones friend the old main staid bald softly nut but it was new to me lau laughed glied robert and ns as the he left the simp shop it wu h ho who ito ralpd out but nev arar agul tand he really mental it I 1 t the e old num man kindly blue jmj ps wore 1001 e iner rily over ever and hide swell wl vt t ia IS vi fitl frn 4 t lil I 1 ip |