Show 11 Miracles and i the Christ Child By 13 Ketherine Edelman Indian Brave Breve r N TIlE TUB far tar Hang nOng land of Guided by Ivy i the west the Great Spirit early rl winter Reveals Story had been unusually un un- pf of Clu Christmas usually mild and lind although It was nearIng nearIng near near- Ing Christmas now the weather was bright and clear dear almost spring like In la Its mildness Everywhere that the message of the Christ Child had bad reached achE men and women were busy and happy preparing preparing preparing pre pre- paring for tor the l great day a new v and added Joy boy oy of ot life lite surging within their hearts Into each home there had come a strengthening and rekindling of ot family ties Ut's and nM anda a ne new birth of ot love and service that reached out even eVE beyond the home borne t Out on the res rn reservation I o however td the Indians went v about their tasks A as a usual for tor torno no hint of ot the wonder and the glory of ot tine the 0 Christmastime Christmas h r 1st mas e time had yet et come cometo to them And It If they felt elt a II mys- mys mysterious tE something In the air at this d time they understood understood understood under under- stood It not at all all for tor the brightness from the Star of ot Bethlehem had not yet burst upon them Moonlight Brook was very lonely lonely- she had only little Silver Sliver Star her ber daughter with her now the now the big bl chief had hod sent Strong Oak her husband with other braves on a mission to a distant tinge tillage And Moonlight Brook had IDI missed sed him every hour for tor their love was still stilt burning as bright as the big Ig camp lire fire that blazed near the Ue tepees at nt dusk IIer Her love of ot the great fE-at fE open spaces helped to cheer her during the long hours of ot his absence Every day with little Sliver Silver Star she alma wandered afar In these lonely places that she went there always l' l carne came to her the sense of ot some Borne unknown presence presence the the hand of ot some great power I Early one morning Moonlight Brook Drook called little Sliver Silver Star to her and told her that they would go for tor a 11 along along long walk away up to Roaring Hearing Creek Moonlight Brook was lost In wonder at atthe atthe the beauty of ot the scene but a great and sudden change had come over the day Now looking at the lowering threatening sky she decided that sho she must make muke all possible haste back to the village For Kor with the time darkness darkness dark- dark ness and ond the gloom that had come over overall overall overall all there had come too from across the prairie a low menacing wind I that carried with It at times time small dry snowflakes snow With Silver Star In her arms Moonlight Moonlight Moon Moon- light Brook started in the direction of or orthe the village 1 walking with the swift strong stride of ot the woman who lives much In the open The snow now was coming down In large flakes s and the wind had grown like blizzard In Its velocity Hope was fast tast dying within her for tor she was trembling from exhaustion ex ex- Then ThE overwrought nature did the thing which she had tried hard to keep from happening she happening she sank lank upon the snow snow her her last thought a as 81 she felt consciousness leaving her tt to wrap Tap the blanket closer about little Silver Sliver Star and to waft watt a prayer to the Great Spirit to take care of ot Strong Oak when she sho was gone one e But the prairie has many stories to tell of ot strange things that have happened there and this on day there was added 1 to the list another of ot those coincidences s which happen oftener in rea real I life lite than some would have us believe Jo For r Strong Oak and his party came by bythe bythe the v very e r y s spot pot s where ro hE-ro Moonlight Brook and Silver Star lay a short time after they had sunk exhaust ed Some of ot the themEn themen men n had tried to tot v t take a k e the other oilier trail troll but something some some- some thin thing I within him that strange Unknown unknown un Un- known force torce which conies to all nil at times made him choose the time Roaring Hearing Creek trail Instead and he found his hla loved d ones and with the help of ot the guides they Uley reached the village in n safety A le few lev hours later Moonlight Brook and Strong Oak sat pat hand in hand band the happiness of ot being reunited surging within them Moonlight Brook whispered over and over that it was a miracle that the Great Spirit had wrought that Strong Oak should have found her And Strong Oak todber told tod her ber that while be he had been gone be be had heard the story of ot the Christ ChUd Child who had come upon earth on this day which ever since has been called Christmas Christmas' As Moonlight Brook listened to the beautiful story that has been told so much but which keeps kepIs Its through thrill through the ages agel she ahe felt that this day was Indeed a day of ot miracles for tor like her bronzed brave 1 the story brought her a wonderful peace pence and stilled the restless longIngs longIngs long long- Ings Inge which had hael come to her ber BO so 0 often in the past Mil 1121 Newspaper Vales M 4 |