Show T T 4 0 pit 1 fe I 1 NL 1 S sij FF fo folks 14 1 5 FO or F 7 christmas by florence pore nee harris wells ele certainly getting a fierce old blizzard sallie aft former farmer mat brown crippled f with rheumatism sat w rocking end and presumably 1 reading near the kitchen stove the morning 0 ot f the day before christmas christinas it look like much of a christmas I 1 wish we had bad somebody to come it takes tokea follis folks to make a real christmas christinas well we have eacle other sallie replied cheerily and ive got enough wood in the shed to keep this kitchen stove going awhile its lucky for us is we lime leaie that little room oft of this big kitchen to use for our bedi bedroom anin the rest of the house Is just its is well shut up so sallie Sil lle you always look on tle abe bright side of everything but sometimes I 1 cant help belp but asli we had find children some folks anyway for christmas dont dant you vl eie a lonesome old pair at best just us two anil it worse this kind oj of weather Vc ather it was almost a misty cloud that pissed passed over oer Salli sallies gs face but as Is the custom of clouds it seemed to leave it moie bright and sunshiny than before now alint vi hat would we do with folks mat she laughed gally gaily freeze tills this weather in any room ot this kitchen and the little bedroom but if there were more of us persisted john be more to help got anything tor for christmas dinner to make it sort of special sallie yes im going to kill one of the last five hens its christmas and we must do something to celebrate A great stamping and banging interrupted any further remarks and midst a gust of whirling snow hakes flakes sallie opened the door to four snow covered figures sho unceremoniously pushed in closing the door behind them excuse va us the spokesman said were going home from college thought we could make it in our ca car r but were stuck this storm Is fierce I 1 never knew we could have a blizzard around here the boys were shaking their coats and hats and generally upsetting the customary calm of the kitchen theres a lot more stuck back of us this Is the only house we could see anywhere guess its because its near the road you cant see very far in this storm the boys were all talking at once no now another banging at the door and two traveling men entered apologetically but determinedly eeg beg pardon people but were stuck the snow Is most two feet deep on a level and its getting worse every minute we salesmen are up against it trying to get home for christmas and never dreaming of a blizzard in this section seems seema like the storms of the pioneers sallie managed to find her vol voice ce youre welcome im sure but we ie much to offer all right madam theres a truck of groceries stuck too the driver said as soon as wed located a farm house to come back and wed all rustle up eats enough so you worry about food except to help us 1 fa HNS X sallie opened the door to four snow covered figures get it ready how about fuel got enough to warm the rest of the house theres some in the shod shed and a lot more plied piled outside if you men can got get it and chop IV it we can do that the boys were sit all eager to get into this new experience all day alone or in pairs the snowbound drivers of autos kept corning coming ini and when christmas morning dawned bright and clear it shone through the snow wreathed windows of the farm house upon 2 20 stranded journeyers jour asleep on beds chat chairs rs and the floor covered in auto robes and all aar the bedding sallie could produce the table was covered with canned goods sacks of vegetables were about the kitchen kit clion floor and several beveral cold storage chickens grac graced d the great wood piles which hibb now oiled filled the shed sallie was already at getting the biggest christmas dinner she had ever known lt it was wag lite late afternoon when the alie state snow plows readied reached the one hy by one the cars were duz due out and the travelers went on their way leaving behind them a much disheveled house a quantity of food some eash ash and best or oc all a spirit of christmas christinas gaiety and helpfulness howd you like having folks mat slaty sallie laughed mischievously as she began arranging the disorderly but warm rooms great slat mat answered with more enthusiasm than he had shown in some time its an ill III wind hint hat blow somebody good and this time were the some bodies it takes folks all right 11 t make a christmas its the best christmas weve had in years say the best weve ever had at mat at tile the best weve ever had bad slat mat obediently chanted lt western ne union 1 |