Show desert christmas with decorations yuletide atmosphere was enjoyed by stranded trio on sandy trail by ELEAOR ELEANOR E r KINQ KING TORRID on BHO shone it down upon pon a atra stranded n de automobile dout 1 ile the car with steral seeming n g unconcern stood in the middle a of f the road one b hesitates a in een up piling the term road mail to this jumbled sandy cor corduroy duro trait trail wending aten dinK endless bodies miles with nothing thing on an either aide of it to break the mimo monotony hilly of the sand leea waste save here and there a spiky pi kc cactus two feet sticking out fr from in under curb the car phoned the location of one of the alie occupants another mem her ber of the party wan ana perched on an the mojmir board not far from the two ica feet sir mr arh graham a non man of perhaps forty or bie years year an and it father of the com oung man now a on hla his back solving the stories lea of a baky car was atu chinK the instruction b book 0 k it looks to me like a burned out IX A lar hearing bearing came a voice from under the ag engine ne and it if it le IB nother mother you and I 1 ought might just Us as well pitch camp on and ge get settled la tor the next few do dus mr graham 8 perfect or resli resignation mthm in we was 11 the product of the previous three weeks ii note auto trip experience experiences exper fences a mother emerged from feel the die back seat and the couple flat to work unloading the car in the lat late after afternoon amen aca desert ft aunald sun shine that evening as th they y eat at do docio to their 1 meal I at the little camp p table mr ale grebe graham said it nor licit getting to that next best to town ru rather th spoils poll our little plus plan for far christill as balls utah U a great american desert la Is certainly one one fine place for the me car to break down burst bunt forth tom imagine tomorrow being christmas with all athla 18 heat t those states I 1 ahra grew up on ba back east E at about santa asuit enow reindeer would never do out in this section here santa needs a cam camel the weary troop sought bought their beds early tom being assured by the heavy breathing of his mother and father that they were asleep bounced out of bed getting a bunch of paper napkins and it towels out at of the car and ad a pat pair of scissors he returned to his bis cot proceeding to cut them into long ribbon like strips trip some of the paper he crushed into balls tving eving a piece of string to each one me of them then build suddenly m ly he be remembered that long long ago aga ahert he had been in school by f folding it i R piece of paper papa several ga times time and cutting different sized pieces from the fold they had bad c created all sorts of designs he made a reports dozen doce or more of these theme lacey openwork patterns patt eraa next he be cut a large star to be sure it was a little lopsided but it had five points and any one could guess goes what hot it we was supposed to a be tom now looked around for some hearl heavier paper out of which he ha might make a cornucopia D pl aimaka go gathering arms up the results suit of his bla labors n he e made his way to a huge bilge cactus 0 some fr ten or fifteen feet from ill the nine the star tom put on an the topi topmost st admy of the plant the ribbon like ile strips he twisted and draped around the plant making use of the needles in joining the short beer pieces piece to together gellia if not artistic ob when the alie cactus to certainly louled festive 1 11 tom toai surveyed his masterpiece ar carce with a chuckle grabbing a sheet of paper he began to cut out sone some letters three these letters strung strong together on a plas tit of twine awl wera hung bung across the cactus now there will be no chance tor for g guesswork un all with that shu merry christmus christmas across the front frant he gave last look and tumbled into bed merry Cirl wake up boune mar man tom blinked at his father who laughingly laughing sail bald ss as he pointed to the belh bedick pd cairus you yea see aee we did chea hai 1 a white b is christmas Chrls tuma after all abusi lia t h to co R pod good fairy fill hit |