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A NEW ENGLAND
CHRISTMAS
Fr'»,.\ Newborn High School Echo.
Dorothy Vintou sat in the swing
which hung on the veranda of ber
beautiful home, humming agay
little song. 3he was very heppv,
for were not papa and mama go¬
ing take her to grandmother’s for
Christmas? And pupa told her
about the good times he had had
Jbad at Grandmother’s when he
was a Hud Uved in Kng
Jand ?
uad never seen this grand*
mother, for in all ber brief six
year* she had never been out of
Sonthern Florida. She looked out
no > over the blue lakes in the dis¬
tance and wondered how the
snow and ice that her father bad
told ber about would look As c >
far as she could see were the
ora ; ;e gloves, with the golden !
fruit hiding away among the glossy
Jeive 1 ; the sun shone warm in
th‘- blue sky overhead and every¬
thing seemed like June instead of
December. Dorothy loved her
Southern home, with its flowers
and moonlit lakes, but she felt :
\erv happy to know that in a few D
-days 'he would be at dear Grand- ? !
mother Vinton’s, frolicing in. the •
■now. '
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The long train was speeding
over the rails, and Dorothy eat
gazing out of the car window.
Every moment was bringing them
nearer their destination, and soon
they would le at Grandma’s. She
leaned back in her seat with a con
tented little sigh aud closed her
•eyes
When she opened them again
papt was gathering up their bag
gag' and mama was drawing on
her wraps. The porter poked bis
head in at the door and called out.,
«< Burtonville!” Dorothy canght
mama’s haud and they hurried
from the car. There was Grand
pa Vinton waiting beside the little
station with the carriage and the
buffalo robes. He gave Dorothy
a kiss and a big hug, then bun¬
dled her in among the warm buf¬
falo lobes with a hot soapstone at
her feet. Mama and papa settled
thcmelves iu the carriage aud
with a crack of the whip they were
off. Dorothy auuggled down in the
robes and took another uap. She
was iso sleepy that she didn't
notice that there was no snow on
the ground. She was awakened
by feeling aomeoue’s arms acouud
her, and a warm kiss on her cheek.
She opened her eyes and looked
up into Grandmother’s smiling
face and heard her murmur, ‘-My
own little Southern rose!” She
looked around, but the room was
strunge, and at first she couldn’t
remember where she was or how
the came there. Then she remem¬
bered the ride and knew that she
was at Grandma Vinton’s. After
kissing grandma she jumped off
the bed and ran to the window.
Grandma, following, saw her blue
eyes fill with disappointed tears.
To ber anxious question as to what
was the matter Dorothy replied,
I « I thought there w-would be be
beautitul white snow, aud—there
Isn’t any,—any where!”
Grandma soon comforted her
with the assnranoe that the there
Would be plenty of snow before
she left and showed her a big snow
cloud in the north, so she went
happily down to supper, where she
found papa, mama and grandpa
gathered around the table await¬
ing them.
After supper they sat around the
great fireplace iu the dining room,
and grandpa held her on hi6 knee
*n»l t<>ld her stories, while papa
popp-d corn until she began to
nod. Then mama and grandma
took b»r up the winding stairs and
do*n the long hall to thr bed
wni, where she was quickly uu
xili*i»‘*d aud put in a great four
j*ost«r bed which grandma bad
warmed with ihe old-iashioDed
rming pan, and she drifted away
to dreamland still thinking of
the beautiful snow she was so
wtixious to see.
“Dwar.e, wage op qnicfc 1 and
Cot>tP-toc4 6B Sistl) F»e«-
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