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Show Christmas Is Ireland's Greatest of All .Feasts IN NO country Is Christmas looked forward to with greater .anticipation than In Ireland. For . 'centuries the coming of the Christ Child has been hailed with unbounded joy by the peo- pie of the Emerald Isle. . j Many stories associated with Christ- mas . are repeated year after year j around Irish firesides. An old legend tells that sometimes on Christmas eve Mary and the Christ Child wander abroad seeking shelter. Fearful lest they uilght seek in vain, as they did in Bethlehem long ago, a lighted candle: can-dle: Is placed In every window to guide them to a place of refuge. These are left burning through the night, gleaming gleam-ing Into the darkness, guiding any wanderer wan-derer that might be abroad ; for the legend also tells Chat the' "Mother and I Child" may come in almost any guise. ; All the world remembers Ireland at j Christmas, for her children are scat- ' tered in every land. A steady stream ; of gifts ftud good wishes come pouring Into lief 'frates. Families divided by stretching seas are reunited in spirit, j as the bridge of time and space Is j broken by the old happy greeting, "A Herry Christmas and a Bright New , Year." Katherlne Fdelman. I |