Show Chri straas trails and gales by florence harris wells WW 1 g bilow V that sliu site was really at al home for christmas katharine maun mann found herself lier wishing visiting that slie site had in W X 1 1 1 tied some ale of her young S city friends to accompany her katharine was moi midy oil in the last few ru rows s ot of the lie scarf site she was knitting fur for tier her mothers christmas gift and hor her thou thoughts ghis as busy ns tier her fingers sinbad it 11 was going to be too still in fit tin tile little bay shore village for tier her friends lint but father and an niniver unit brother jack jach hid had all been so sincerely delighted to see tier her that thai slie she had decided a home wits was after nil all the only place in nelch to spend christmas arid ami boarding and roon dul houses honses could not compare no matter how congenial the yo young ull g rol folks 1 s there might be c still till site she did wish fled 1 aed aldrich be here too ton fred had grown to be quite a part of tier her tire life slie was ns le learning arDing now that slip she had bern been away for two days they had bad lieen been hoarding boarding at the place ice for six months it was a jolly group at that boarding house katharine hoped they were missing tier her especially F fiad i ell she ad admitted to her self an idea slip site would not t ilae hac had field an fani one ine surmise no no not for nn a lhing hi ing I 1 n oar old li oilier lack canie came merrily dashing luto into the ie room shall we ave 0 no o gel tile chiist nas ilias tree iroe sis P i ter A ml if r I 1 g it 1 t fin katha aba rin rine answered I 1 cc I 1 ly it was al va anis s nn an nilen nhen lure to lo lit the lie he coerced bay to fill plin ilin w winds mis on it theother side and srini amily tit tin right tree from the abundance t to be found there jieh would cli chop it down and together they would mild tie it ae aurely to the lily big sled it win wal easy ellough enough gh to bring it back on the tee ice the day wits ans already drawing to a close when the two found themselves once more on oil the ice fee leading for homo home well bayt i i nurry if f wf ne get home before dark jack dont I 1 know it jack answered cooki its snowing sur sure e enough tile the air was filled with fine glistening particles wee got of to 10 hustle now rath kath you know youre plain stuck if you gut get baug caught lit on the lee ice in a snow st orm on thea the glided aral to tile the sled rope tin the sharp snow gran ules became more numerous the air was filled with them pelting and biting their faces and making the skating less and less easy the brucks ana notes holes in the ice were toon soon coi cohered ered more than once jack and katharine found themselves clutching the air in wild contortions to keep their balance suddenly catharines Katha rines skate caught in a role hole in falling she hit bit jacks and they both went sliding and sprawling on the snow covered surface tile sleigh with the tree on it sped past them carried on by the impetus of its weight and the flying start it had bad the two skaters gathered themselves together regaining their feet in time to see the runaway hit a fis hermans hut the hut collapsed they watched two much and irate men disentangle themselves from the wreck and glare around to see what it was all about katharine and jack sped toward them as fast as the skating would permit were so sorry katharine began but tile the snow coerced the cracks in the ice fee arid and my skate caught site she got no fur tiler ther A pair of black eyes un in der the huge fur cap wore were rats mis chievous c h 1 e v 0 u s ly 1 v twinkling so youre our undoing katha rene mann I 1 came up herp on y your 0 u r trill trail but I 1 d I 1 1 I nt ex e hect you to up set W my y p elins in ins q in this fashion I 1 katharine hall had some somewhat bit recovered cov her poise ilow did you get here fred aidrich I 1 thi ilu I 1 left you in town you did gill bill a city without your gay self in it I 1 decided to accept uncles proffered ineita tion to fish so I 1 followed iou on home you know my aunt and uncle of course were old friends katharine beamed tier her brightest smile upon the uncle tiit but T I 1 know you anere vre re lathes this Is my brollier jack lets go bome and get the tree up its almost atilt snowing jack offered unceremoniously lets the lie uncle added but tie he smiled ns as though well pleased your mother lias has already asked us ua for christmas fl dinner ivner katharine ill 11 was as to have licen been a 21 surprise A pretty line fine one id it say freds voice sounded souni led very gay and happy that thai tree deserves special atten tion in my mv lopint 0 it so go a alt ff we go ner er the ice and through the snow and somehow it proved much isler asler going now than it did be ore especially to katharine trine a 0 western New newspaper union |