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FROM GERMANY.
Papa says that G
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WHO’S THERE?
mf ‘used to tell-.
him when
be was little, that the devil
Nowell, nowell, nowell, nowell,
Who ys there that syngith so, nowell,
lived in the ace of spades, but Papa gays.
/
* nowell, nowell? =
now that he has. been where the devil
lives, he can’t believe that any more.
\I am here, syre Christmasse!
The English Channel and North Sea *4Well come, my lord, syre Christmasse,
Chauncey Pond Writes to His Teacher .
From Across the Briny Deep.
Chauncey Pond, although but nine ‘.
. Years old, has not forgotton in the ex
‘Welcome to us all, both morn and lesse
Come nere, Nowell!
School days at his old home in St. He
were very smooth, and I might say they
could not have been smoother. On the’
lena, and at his firat opportunity wrote
11th of February we arrived at Brener
the following truly excellent descriptive
letter to his teacher, Miss Dresser, which
. \A mayd hath born a chylde full young,
and took a train to Bremen and from
‘The weche causeth yew for to syng,
there to Hanover, then we changed curs
i
Nowell!
to Berlin, arriving here about 8:30 r. a. .
Criste is now born of a pure mayde,
and found Professor Griggs
Re
after being read to his schoolinates, was
kindly banded us for publication in the . !
Star:
waiting for
We all went to a restaurant and had
us.
Dear Miss Dresser: When we left
supper, then we took a ’bus and came to
San Francisco wwe crossed San Francisco . No. 57 Koniggratzer street, where we
bay, took a train to Port Costa, and our 1 live.
'
On the streets may be seen men,
train crossed on a large boat to Benicia, .
women and dogs pulling wagons. ‘Ne
and then we went straight on to Chicago.
electric nor cable cars here, but we have
We were out of California the firat day.
horse cars and omnibuses.
:
In Kansas City it was cold und windy so .
We have learned to skate on the ice.
It is about as far from our house to the
that we did not go out and enjoy the
skating rink as it is from Mrs. Heysights of the three hours that we stopped
. ’
¢
BALLADE OF CHRISTMAS GHOSTS.
Between the moonlight and the fire
In winter twillghts long ago,
What ghosts we raised for your desire,
To make your merry blood run slow!
How old, how grave, how wise we
grow!
No Christmas ghost can make us chill,
Save those that troop in mournful
row,
The ghosts we all can raise at
will!
school yard, and about 100 people go
there every afternoon when it is pleas
. party.
ant.
We did not intend to stop at Chicago
.
:
To learn the German language we go
. for it was so cold there, but we had to
stay one day. 80 we got to Washington
The beasts can talk in barn and
byre
. On Christmas Eve, old legen
ds know.
. As year by year the years
¥
retire,
to a Kindergarten which is supposed to
begin at 8 o’clock A. 1., but we can say
one day Jater than we thought we should.
iat it does not really begin until 10, for
the children play games until that time,
When we were going from the street
jcars to the house, we had to cross a
then they eat a breakfast which they
'track and I fell down, but did not burt
then they say their prayers and sing
hymna, then they ravel cloth, before be
We remained in Wuashington two
weeks and did not have any too much
Nowell!
Bebbex bien par tutte la company,
.
Make gode chere and be right mery,
And syng with us now joyfully,
=
Nowell!
w
a
Harry and I go every week to skate.
The rink is about
as large as the boy’s
jand three gentlemen left besides our
.
. The
ginning Jessons. Hurry and I do
not
know enough German to recite and sing
}
with them, and:we think it sounds
very
time for going out and seeing all the
rights.
Our steamer sailed from New York
early in the morning so we had to go
We men fall silent then I trow,
Such sights hath memory
»
to show,
Such voices from the Silenc
e thrill,
Such
shapes return
with
Christma:
snow—
ghosts we all can raise
at will.
bring in little baskets or tin buckets,
%
bryng;
In an oxe BStalle he ys layde,
Wher’for sying we alle atte abrayde
mann’s to the post office in St. Helena.
there. Some people who were in our
car got off there, 80 we had only one lady
mvself very much.
‘Dieu vous garbe, beau syre, tydinges yow
.
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Citement of_s range surroundings, his
'Oh, children of the village
choi
r,
Your carols on the
midnight throw,
Oh, bright across the
mist and mire,
.
Ye ruddy hearths of
Christmas glow!
Beat back the dread,
beat down the woe,
Let’s cheerily descend
the hill;
2
Be welcome all, to
come or go,
f
} The ghosts we all
can raise at will!
funny to hear them. Mamie gzoes to
private school for girls, for boys and girlsa
cannot go to the same school here
ar
they do in St. Helena. Harry and
go toa pymnasium after we get I will?
out of
‘aboard the day before. She sailed Mon. ) the Kindergarten.
ENVOY.
,day morning, January 27, at 8:300’clock. .
Ican imagine you all at home—yo i ¥Wriend, Sursam corda, soon or
slow
u
les
Soknart, like guests who've
. The first two days the ocean was nice F ' teaching and the childrentrying to
joyed thei
get
and smooth, but the third day it wes . , their lessons, and playing ball at recess.
Forget them not,
nor mourn them
One day we went to the Thier Garten
so,
The ghosts we all
rough enough to wash the wayes over
can raise at will.
and saw the Emperor’g
the lower deck, and the steerave pass. the first one were the Carriages. In
A.
LANG.
Emperor and
engers hug to get out of the way by
Empress—the other had some of
the children In it.
‘standing on a place that-the freight was
.
Give my love to all my schoolmates.
loaded on. The fourth or fifth day we
The time draws near the birth
of Christ:
\T hope
~ CHRISTMAS BELLS.
you will write soon to
had a terrible storm which tore up a
bench and a railing and floated away
two of the boats—one was torn all to
pieces. When the bow went down very
low the propellor rau away with itself,
but when the bow was up it was ull
“ON CHRISTMAS
Assist
wt
right.
On acconnt of a rtorm in the “Devil's
Hole” it took us 15 days to” Gross the
ocean instead of 10. ‘The Captain told
us that the devil played a game of cards
n
me,
whi
nic
cth
Muse
the
diy ine!
Savv1o
i OL
to
sing
the
manki nd
was
Unless kina ang
“gages
els aid me fr
om the
h skies.
PORCH Wastinaron,
wou
Tiptoe on till chanticleer,
"
(Loose the laugh, dry
the tearsi
~ . -made
it
‘Each voice four changes
on the wind,
. That now dilate, ana
now decrease,
Peace and good will,
good will ana
peace,
Peace and good will,
to all mankind.
put, oh! yV
ha t num ber
s to t he th
e me Cc can
/O-K CHRISTMAS -DITTY,
Fe eT
“Answer each other in the
mist.
brour voices of four haml
ets round,
. From far and near, On
mead and moor
_ Swell out and fail as
if a door
,
. Were shut between me
and the sound.
.
OY. ie
culled sixty-six every night
with
his grandmother wt that’, place.
in
AN
, The moon is hid: the night
is still;
. The Christmas bells from
hill to hill
our loving scholar,
ie
Citauncey Ponb.
Ne-get_beate
hanJ L©. (Sweep the ingis. teoth the beory
Crack the drums
When Christmas comes}
This year I slept and
woke with pain,
I almost wished no
more to wake,
And that my hold on
life would break
. Before I heard thos
e bells ugain,
But they my troub
led spirit. rule,
For they controlleq
me when a boy;
mn
’
.
They bring me sorrow
touched
joy,
The merry, Merry helj}s
of Yule.
>
with
—TENNYSON,.