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YEARS and years ago stock
ings were not hung on Christ
mas eve as we hang them now.
No one ever heard of such a
thing as hanging up a stocking
for Christmas gifts. And if
children had thought of such a
thing they would have said,
“What a foolish idea! A stock
ing wouldn’t hold half the
things we want.” So the child
ren throughout the world
; placed crocks, big brass bm ins,
' and copper kettles on the
hearth on Christmas eve and
left notes in them telling wan
ta to fill them to he brim. Each
year the children left larger
vessels to be filled.
Up in the great white north
Santa’s reindeer no longer
pranced and pawed, impatient
to be off on Christmas eve, as
they once had done. They hung
their heads and a tired look
came into their big brown eyes,
for they remembered how
heavy the loads had grown
and how many more trips they
were forced to make year by
vear.
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St. Nicholas no longer rest
ed now through the summer
months, as he once had done,
but labored every day through
out the year, and often he
built toys late into the night,
for a great many gifts had to,
be made to fill the baskets
that the greedy chidlren left.
The twikle left his merry eyes,
and he no longer sang about
his work, for he was sad and
thought of the time that would
come when he could no longer
build enough presents to go
around.
Late one December day St.
Nicholas stepped from his
workshop into the deep snow.
Facing the south, he called:
“Hear, oh hear, children of the
earth, my loved ones, can you
not see you are becoming sel
fish and that your greedy de
mands are too great a task
even for St. Nicholas, king of
the Christmas spirit? Can’t
you see, my children that you
are killing the spirit of
Christmas?”
His chin sank upon his chest
and tears glistened in his kind
ly eyes. A soft white snow
flake fluttered down and nest
sled against his cheek, and a
tiny voice whispered in his ear'
“Santa I will help you.”
“Who are you?” asked St.
Nicholas.
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ed the tiny voice. “As my sis
ters and I have danced about
the air we have often swirled
about your sleigh on Christmas
eve, and have seen the great
loads you have always carried
and how tired you h a ve
' looked.”
“What, O what, shall 1 do?”
asked Santa.
“Just go about your work as
usual,” answered the fairy. “I
and my sisters will help you.”
“Oh, thank you,” cried St.
Nicholas. And the fairy float
ed out among the other snow
flakes.
Aa the children went about
I the snowflakes whirled around
; them, and it seemed that they
! could hear tiny voices, and as
the snawflakes nestled against
their ears they seemed to
sing: Just a stocking—hang
a stocking up at Christmas
j eve.”
“Jut a stocking—just a
1 stocking,” rang through the
hearts of the children on Christ
mas eve. And in place of leav
, ing the great vessels as they
)nce had done they just hung
jp their stockings.
Some children were loo sel
fish to hear the song of the
snowflakes and left the great
baskets as they always had
:lone. But when they saw the!
great joy the unselfish child
ren had in their gifts and how
contented and happy they were
these selfish ones were asham
ed. and they, too, began to
hang up only their stocking?,
when Christmas eve came
around.
When St. Nicholas found
stockings in place of the great
baskets and barrels the twink
le came into his laughing eyes,
his cheeks grew red, and he
sang as he dorve through the
merry sea of snowflakes.
With just stockings to fill
St. Nicholas had time to rest,
and he grew strong and well,
and the spirit of Christmas
lived. So this' is why nowa
days we hang up our stocking
on Christmas eve. All this we
are told by a writer, who learn
ed it from a Christmas fairy.
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CHRISTMAS
If we were to fancy a whol
ly Christianized world inspired
by the spirit of Christmas—a
bright, friendly, beneficent,
generous, sympathetic mutal
]y helpful world. Let us cling
to Christmas all the more as a
day of the spirit which in every
age some souls have believed
to be the possible spirit of hu
man society.—George William
Curtis.
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TEACHER’S EXAMINATION
The regular examination
for teachers will be held at
Batesville on Thursday and
Friday, December 15 and 16
1921.
W. T. JERNIGAN,
County Superintendent.
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the minute and have lots of different items
you need in this line. We are enlarging our
stock of hardware and can furnish you with
anything you want in this line. We have
just unloaded a car of wire fencing-barb
wire, nails, etc. We are agents for the Oliver
Chilled Plows and Farm Implements.
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