Show the browns brown christmas it was christmas christinas eve and mr and M mrs us brown sat alone by the fire they were vere too poor to buy gifts for christmas and they dreaded to bee christmas come because it brought memories back of the guy gay times vicy used to haie hae when all of their child m ren were V young g and at home but bul now the ch cb idren were all grown up and gone awa and the old folks were very lonely As they sat gazing gating into the fire hot burned low on an the hearth mrs brown A said aid amill wouldn I 1 it be nice if all ot our children could be with us tomorrow tomo irow yes answered mr brown but theres no hope of that they are all so ur far away they sat at by the fire until mahl late that night thinking of tile the merry times they had had at christmas time i their lounger life the next morning they arose and after r hag ha g b breakfast and ad d doing ing the morning they again sit sat bi t the pre fire about too ten 0 clock on christ mas morning they board beard footsteps top coming up the walk and then curn came ap on the door an and there stood a messenger boy with a tele gram grain to for them the old couple read it with trembling hands bands and this his is A what it said aid we will arrive there about icum to day december trient benty fifth from your children after the happy couple had bad read the telegram they the began hurrying to build a fire in the kitchen stove and prepare dinner at twelve 0 clock that dav the most delam delicious rn christmas damier one could imagine was prepared in the brown home at twelve thirty a 0 clock two cars car drove up in the yard and grown peo pen pie ano and with wilb merry faces began crowding in the h house bushed mr and mrs brown laul laughed and cried unit jov but at the end of the daiy diy d ly they declared this was the hap bap P they had ever spent by edith warren sophomore |