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bol Nisdddnsayannisbisnmdioonius sists atod dui tin kidicopaletinkaiere sl skh i My M 1 Chri \ ~ py . . y Most Unusua ristmas a La) DX A This most unusual Christmas day of mine is three presents, all clothes, but we were not brought up © ' perhaps in some ways sad, but it is also the story of a to expect anything more nor did it bother us too much. ; |. very happy time. It is so different from the Christ- Christmas meant to us, our dad would be home all ol e | « mases of my children and the children of today, that I day, we would sing carols] act out the Christmas story A would like to share it with them. and sing with my dad, who sang in the Village o Hy - | This Christmas I am referring to, happened in Methodist Church Choir, and made sure, we always P k ike 0 / 1927, in a nice brick home in the village of Cannington. went twice every Sunday, about one mile walk, in all acked up lots of wishes 30 | My mother had passed away in June, leaving my kinds of weather. Wrapped "em full of fun, ; | father with five children, four girls and a boy, ranging We wouldn't have had a more enjoyable Christmas " - . ~~ in age from six to fourteen. Some people might say, in dinner that year, than Dad's homemade biscuits, his For a healthy, happy Christmas these days, he must have had his hands full with five - homemade bread, mock duck which he could make so And thanks to evervone youngsters. If he did, we were never made aware of it. wonderful, potatoes, turnips and, of course, gravy. ' Buistacver ron. This first Christmas, after mother died, started by This would be followed by my sister Jean's homemade getting our stockings from a beautiful Christmas tree, raspberry preserves. This would be at the noon meal. decorated by all of us children with any pretty paper or For supper, bread and milk or nicely cooked oatmeal card we could manage to find. We were very poor so porridge would be the menu, along with toast and > v our stocking was something wonderful to receive. cocoa. First of all, we would feel something hard in the toe of Then we would sit by lamplight, around the the stockings, which turned out to be a piece of coal, woodstove and sing carols or listen as Dad told us of the then a box of Crackly-nut, an orange, an apple, some things of his boyhood or of his life and the old songs he nuts and some candy (homemade) were the contents of would sing, comical ones, of which I still remember the the stockings. We would also get two or, at the most, words. "- I often think it may have been a sad Christmas for : my dad, but never did he show it. He made Christmas * for us kids and while you may say "not much unusual Wh t Ch : t M i about that Christmas". It is unusual, because an a rs mas eans To Me unusual man like my dad could take so little of this : World's goods and make it the best, happiest day, five Christmas means to me a mom and my dad a present. i motherless children could every have wished. lot because It is a fun day It is Jesus's birthday on :: i and I think it is the best day Christmas but Jesusisdead. ii Marion King > - of the month. Like there are It's because we still have his 3: f lots of things like going - birthday, because he was * toboganing and skating and made by God 100's and 100's all kinds of things. It means of years ago. 2 ZA 71 N\ = A \ le) ed = Ws QT Ey [9 CE i to me giving things to people that can't buy things because Brett R. J. Garland, their poor. 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