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6, Thursday, December 23rd, 1971, WHITBY FREE PRESS SThe Adventure 0f Cutting Your Own Chrîstmas Tree P JIt's the secison ~wu.4of//un and laughter. We wish your jamily the best, the Yuleide can off er. Merry Christmas. McKeen's Furniturèe 524 Simcoe S -by Kim Aritage For each fami ly, at Christmas time, there are traditions. Some, new only to the young generation. They are tradit- ions which were kept fondly by the par- entsand grandparents, often fading with thepassingyears, then to be rediscov- ered suddenly by today's children. Like cutting down your very own fami ly Christmas tree. What an adventure! The whole family makes the treck to a tree farm, and from a real, live forest chooses the very best tree (they Ire cer- tain) chops it down and in happy triumph returns home. Makiog memories Sometimes the adventure becomes a realm of wonderous things - the things w h i c h make mernor les and dreams for years to corne. Like the smal I tree farrn near the quiet hamilet of Hampton. On the barnyard gate !s a large sign 'Dô Not Blow Horn'. Be- yond the gate a sea of red, bobbing knobs on spindlenecks -ahuge flockof turKeys their white feathers making them almosýt, Indiscernable in the heavy slanting snow-., They set up a furlous clarnor Of ltgobbîeW,ý gobblet at the intrusion of these strang- ers, "Sheep!" A ten-year-ol d girl scampers around the back of the station wagon and skids to a stop. "Oh Look SHEEP! 1, she gasps. IlA whol ebunch!z"'The sheep stand motionless in a grey, wooly clurnp by the barn, looking elegantly down their Osh aw a prize off towards the car, Ieaving Mom to carry the axe and the younger brother and sister to scamper ahead. The man ofthe farrnsm il1ed h is thank s as he accepted the rnoney for the tree,, and wi1 shed aI I the very best of the seas- on . Then off the family went, the back of the station-wagon filled with Christ- mas tree and happy little people. Continued on Page 15 Here cornes Santa Claus! 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I enclose a cheque/cash/mnoney order $ ..........-- ---------- FOR ---- EVERLASTING LIGHTER. NAAE ------- ADDRESS -------- O O O O p O O O PLIAS! PRItdT O p n os es a t t h ese six humans and their machine. The though ts of four 1 i t t1e peopl1e have a long way to corne back to getting a Christmas tree. The friendly man and lady of the farm walk towards their visitors. Both are wearing big boots and snow- covered parkas. The chilIdrelnare s'pe l- bound by the sheepob The l ady joi ns the girl1 and her e iah t', y e a r -o 1 d brother by' the f ence.- "Our fl1ock of sheep had a newarrivaI lIast- ni1g ht Wouî d-you 1like to see the ,baàby1 Iamb ? The boy and girl nod.with ees s ca rcel y big enough to see whatl's ,be-i fore them and,'in their minds. î or: The lady leads theway to, a ýsmall barn, n'ea rby. "My. h us band foun'd the- lamb, e arl1y th!ismorn ingin a snow drift outf in the f 1 e I d. It ýwas jus t about'frozen.1 But w e ru1bbedý him good and put him in. here."Il ShFepushed'open the two'hiaîVe-sý of the heavy barn dpor. "Here. he i s. He1llbefi!ne now." The chil1dren peered into the dimfn'ess' of the staîl. The lamb .;and i t'1 s mother stood inthe corner in fres h dry straw. Over head a small1 theatl1amp cast awarm, pink glow. Soon the other members of the family peeked in too. The g irl1, her miînd f ill1ed wi th theýý-ý scene of whi ch she was part, said, "'Hel s 80 - so SMALL, Daddy! I "lYeah,"I said her littie brother. t'He looks kinda funny too. But can we take him home?" Fioding the tree D ad dy shook h is head, gr inned and said, "1CImon. Let's get the tree. Il The friendly man of the farm led the way through the yard down into a stand of small cedars, then.out across a field to a stand of dark green firs. He swept his arm around in an arc which took in several acres of trees and smiled, "'Anyone in there you like.*"I The heavy snow brought stillness to the bush. The six adventurers tromped up and down around the snow laden trees. Lots were towvering, green pyramids, lots more were just the right size, many were b ar el1y b ig enough to poke above the w h i te cover. Thetree searchers gaI - 1op ed through the snow, hi ding behind trees, throwi ng snowball1s. I t was hard - --------------------- le -