Show Tropical Christmas on the Islands in Hawaii IT'S asking a lot to expect people born In temperate latitudes to get steamed up about Christmas in the But to children on islands In the middle of the Christmas Is still writes von In On the outlying islands In Christmas is carried In on and the jingle of spurs replaces the imagined tinkle of Santa's merry sleigh On Christmas eve some inner part of me waits and listens all night for the tramp of horses the ringing of rich Hawaiian voices singing above resonant guitars and gay for cowboy riding from ranch to Like which put an everlasting spell upon ries of Christmases spent on the sixty-thousand-acre cattle ranch my father managed on the slopes the extinct volcano on the Island of persist with undying A fair number of representing different races making up the sum total of participated in Portuguese and their crossings assembled under our Christmas Each group brought j a flavor peculiarly its own to add to the Birthday of all |