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Show I THE CHRISTMAS TREE i i!; -pi IE sun streamed through j 1 the window-glass. They stood H V. a nlrlng what was left ot jj j '.-Istmas a handful of waxen j5 ?' stubs, some tarnished tinsel and j a few colored bulbs; a duoty 3 ? shrub spilling needles on a 3 f -tolled sheet Then a shadow S hid the tun I ; They did not see through the 2 f window the giant elm with Its sj carpet of frosted crystals, Its S branches of prisms and pend i C, ants and coruscations. God S jg touched the switch, the sun g it came out and nature's Christ- g t nos tree stood glittering and $ S. sparkling with gems too pre- jlous ever to be possessed but & free for the poorest beggar! g I Mabel Atkinson In the Prism. j |