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Newspaper Clippings Scrapbook (PH 9-1)(Not Dated) (12 pages)

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oy —F FROM GERMANY. Papa says that G =f 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 . > 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,.