Show f Mysterious Kindness Bound Up in a Bundle the lb joyous Joyo d excitements on of 01 ofay Christmas Day ay they tny all sat Bat u about the blazing hearth fire with happy reminiscent thoughts and called upon the doctor to tell them a story I will wl he said upon one condl condl- each one of you must throw a small fagot upon the blaze and tell a astory astory astory story as long as It burns then t I will tell my story So they did and pleasant and laughIng laugh laugh- Ing tog Interest went round until the turn came to the tile doctor Well Yell said he as he threw a larger fagot Into the fire my story Is not yet yetI yett t I day old and still It Is le not a little one for as I went my ray round of cats calls this morning I was surprised to see a large bundle lying In front of the door of a cottage by the roadside that looked us liS It If It were In need of paint and end everything else Curious to understand understand under under- stand the matter I stopped to Investigate investigate gate te It and discovered by a card that was pinned upon the wrapper that the bundle was designed for Mrs Cafferty Knocking upon the door I at last Induced In the woman herself to open It it Heading Reading the card to her I 1 lifted the bundle Into the room whereupon she railed out In a aloud loud voice Here you Hike Nora Hose Rose Timothy Patrick Bridget and Kate come here you fOU spate peens and se th the leprechauns have brought ye e They came from above below and from all sides Bides they came come and It t is many a day since I have seen as much Joy oy as came out of the mysterious that was bound up In the good things of at that bundle Before Detore they went to bed they voted the doctors doctor's st story ry the best Christmas tory story of them all all Christopher Christopher CJ G. Hazard Q 1923 Welt Western ern Newspaper Union L |