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Show 1 Peter and the Mulberry Tree Dy QirUtopItsr Grant I Uunl : il II -0M15 doss linvu names. ' j'LvJ T,,oro WM Caspar, llio I T fvTT ,,UI' " '""' n namc' uu' IjlII ho wan too jroune to know ' iiift'i Ttiero Mas old iloij liar- "iHi5W S,X father uicJ to inako . xir lUrkur sit up and listen. I J-'ulhur would nay to mo, "No orderly 1ioy would leavo liU list on the floor 'Ilka Hint. Darker wouldn't do It. If I tlie were a boy." 1 Then Barker would bark, nuco. i 'linn my father would oak Murker lit he tas a good dog. and Hurler would bark twice. . Homo iIors hao no names. The llttlo black and whlto dog across tho struct Is Just a doe. but , Jie will come when jou whittle. There Is u dog near here wio knows the butcher cart when be sees It com. Inf. Ilo driven nil tho bens nut of tho yard, so he can pick up the scraps .of meat that fall from the cart while 'MSffifflQ wl,,,e ,,, oulc,,er i w&wJWKi ' BOttlnc tho VpTt-gyj This dog hasn't iImwti i ivwt.' a nnjr nBnle' "e ' ' jVtfAi ,0 8C1811 ttint he ' vffBJ&XvMtovv ,,nt wort" nn,n VftxCvY 0nca ",cre wns vuV n trc' Bn'1 " '""' ' Vftl n name. It was , IjilJ n mulberry tree. M' Tho man that Ji R.M owned tho tree ul ,md a JB' t00, Zstvl'l'? "'" unnl wn8 rxir v ''eteri nnl, no " ' tie doe was ever II ' W AVI - ,,loro fonJ of (rtJfj if meat than I'cer lji y wns ot mulbor- .- J rlas. " Ho would hunt orouud In tho eruss, under tho muU berry tree, until ho bnd found overy mulberry that had fallen down. Then bo would run u gal list tho tree and ' tbump down a lot more. Soma children benrd about Peter .and tho mulberry tree and It made them think of something. It mailo them think of, fixing up a ' ophrlstmas tree, with many little pack. ages upon It like mulberries and KUhen bumping the things off for "" hrlstmos gifts. i L . . . . . Ho, Hits Is Just what they did. Cliarllo had the first bump. When ho picked up his packago he found that ho had a round holo with a s)uaro peg In It. There was n hit nf paper tied to tho peg, mill on It was written: "Oct Into tho right place." llnrrj'H bump brought down n squiiro bole with a round piu In tt. Us paper said: "Don't get Into tha wrong plarn Then Frank gavo a bump that was a regular butt, and ho held up u (uiuuro holo with a squaro peg In It. Thrso words wero with them: "A ptaco for ovorybody, and every-body every-body In Ids' place." When Dick bumped, ho go n round linli and a round peg. "What does this mean?" be shouted. "Tho same thing," answered Trunk. "Sure," said Cbaunccy. Chauncey was tho littlest. Ilo was so little that ho utA.il to toko his doll to bed with him and talk over with It, beforo ho went to sleep, tho things they had dono that day. And bo had Just learned that word "sure." lie was so proud of It that he used to say It to his father Instead of "yeth sir," Chauncey would soon learn that "sura" was not as nlco as "yeth sir," I Then the girls mild It was their turn and thoy began to bump, Ituth got an alphabet, so an to learn not to say "hlkjlmnop." Sarah had "a headache In her knee," so Mary bumped for her, Dowu camo a pair of rubbors and Mary put them ou "Inside outwards," Just to try them. . Then they all bumped tho tree for Chauncey, who wasn't big enough in bump hard enough to inako anything fall. Such n lot of things tumbled off. There wus a bant-bull gloo ltuth tried It tin aud her hand looked like u hassock; a breastpin Sarah pinned It on lief fcluovc, "whero she could hid It;" two dull dress patterns, u new lull's hat a small hat ; u set of dish o, n doll's high t hair ; and a tooth, pick. O'hiumrc) was like the old woman who I h i'il In tho rtifte He didn't know what to do with all his things ; but he wni curuful to uso the toothpick ur lima Iiq took a drink of milk. Thuro was still one packago left. It was In the top of tho tree. Ony little girl, her name was l.uey, had npt had on thing. So tha children chil-dren lot her pull tho top of the treo down to get this package. And there wus tho dearest doll that over camo off of n Christmas treo. It had blue e)M (hat would open and shut and tho cunnlngcst frock Lucy, now tho doll's mother, thought that this was tho very best gift of all. Then, Just as they went going to go downstairs, thero camo a rap at tho door. "Como In," they shouted. What do you supposoT It was Santa Claus. Ilo marched In with stockings for them that fa, , wero all bulging Wfii PJTl and bursting with 5pVil I m cood things. rjjMl What fun they KjfW- things ho had 01CS2to'-N brought. M'XJfvV'j They had such fcv5fVu lM- J n 6' tlmo that K".'ldWrA on,u ' " I''fld SttCtI awny around tho rtArv6' con,er 1 hoiiM W!nJJT&&j ,nBt Santa Claus J" tjLWrrrf.n bad not vlsltt-" rAnjjAif' So, otcrybodr VwiX-iii 'mtl something. Q j&-&P Tl,li ' w'"" '"rlAA Ood meant the iX. 'l W Christmas tree clpy After their visit to the poor children, chil-dren, they all went homo laughing and happy enough to wait a whole iiir for a now crop of Christmas cheer Just as the dog I'eter, has to wait until another season for a now crop of mulberries. (00. lilt, WMt.rn N.w.ptp.r Uslon.) |