Show jit lams oil ae r roa d I 1 aa by if OM was jovial hall ball fellow well met and did not like to work except at repairing recalling an old automo automobile lille which he owned oft nod ile he and his big bl family were now on their wy way to florida ri oilda planning to tamp catill out flioy rl 1 cy lv beio e 3 go going 1 ll 11 g sl 0 w Y 0 owing wl 1 1 g t to 0 va 0 ti aspects sl e acts 0 of f t the lie c cai a i c clile lil ef tamon a i i ion which was old age suddenly came a squashing sound nother oll ici puncture pum tuie pal shrilled Arai liusa ngod aged sixteen get me a plaster chuse ri pa called out 11 1 ax 1 it in a 11 jiffy shuso chiso f a plaster front from the top ti 0 oc illo junk box it wn the one thing that ali it was always liandi handy lilt and lu in alie she out in twenty minutes it va a 4 and all kllc V were going again slowly with pa lilt glancing slyly over oer the side two io perhaps when again came the f hound nother bother tire punctured uiel urel once more moie 1 1 those ime that miles makes I 1 senen till f inon onh y five lh or 01 sit ix 11 pi pa MII i mso I 1 counted positively slip she hopped out with alth another plaster pi ibler I 1 r is 4 of nil all sorts were arc continually in mr going ro ill tin same way ia anellier alii anies or 01 so and a very ely handson iI var i n to an abrupt sli opp the driver diler uttered a iiii thaid exclamation pa 1 i wag w is out again chuse stand ir ill 1 lw mill alli a plaster i conits Ion nus its 0 up nil one inner tube tl alii i avii n away on the road nn an bryin imail i v in a junly shop for twenty five ne vents il thaw why liy dont idi on buy w i now n one toi for a change hrc was is sonic some good in it em rT use explained appl ppl lined pi pa 1 I lute hate to seft s wasted can I 1 help you iou sir or to alie oilier car owner oner dont ehnow libio replied a perplexed voice oin 1 seems to be wrong I 1 don dont know what pa il loft left ills his own on work nud and nent to the other car darling crawling under ills hn in tools rive rio later lie he ci crawled elul out just a nut it loose he said all right now nov you can go on lets stop hoie and trim a tree for the alie suggested it 11 woman in the car 1 I saw a nice dice place a few rods backwith back alth something that looked very much like holly we wont tt ont reach jacksonville till after christmas all right just na as you say si ill drop the bunch bunc it of you and then skip over oer to the town and buy a few things for the kills kids sty say to pi pa youve got a mighty nice bunch of holly in your car wid some mistletoe ill be bound not for me laughed pa 1 I noticed tic ed c em back yonder and cut lem em I 1 might meet somebody on the road like some youre welcome the transfer was made with a we tire ere certainly grateful front from the woman oman now L well go back to the N place ilace I 1 sa W 1 pas wife had been busy and was out beside the road preparing dinner during the wait all ready she now called din dan the ten year old openly scoffed salt pork an It ta tors aters lie he said no thanks im not hungry the rest arte rte excepting chuse after which pa returned to ill his puncture t f the dinner was spread lavishly over a big white cloth lie ite was just ready to start again when chuse called ikeie comes that man all to dinner and christmas tree genially the wife in elsts no back talk pa would hive have refused but a look nt at the alie faces of chuse and dan deterred him all right he said be right over at first sight of the dinner spread lavishly over a big white cloth chuse whispered audibly turkey I 1 nud and gobs ot of it dan merely chuckled t after they flioy were all so BO well filled ithac that they gasped they went to the where everybody received alved is as many presents as they could I 1 carry back bacic and pa himself b am se if had a full fall N set of now it was w as the hist first time pa had ever looked embarrassed |