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Admission Simpson, Mgr. zkatcs and I, thin con- mi south :tb yar in LC Mada- uni-M Inn-Blot ’Cd Park andwc LES? r as Rink. ‘ 30c. and Run}! 7'61] luv: 3 rial Christmas!” Than It ”waned that two passer}. pn went up the m: mummy“?- “Oh, I have such a beautiful idea,” reputed N138. 'We'ii ride on the stage with the Christmas box and give cumm- to father {or a Christmas premt. He wouldn‘t return his Christina present, now, would he?” “Would you be contained, Nina, to In up there .1] winter?" asked mother. “You must remember thlt we will be four miles from Frednlha. You will have no little girls to play with. no nohooi, no Sunday school. noâ€"" ‘ ‘But. mother, m’t we have a school with you for the tucher, and A Sun- day school? Can't I inn 3 whole row lather made no reply. She wished I) much that she, too, might help fill that lonely Itocklng ln the mountain ethln. , “Oh. mother, mother!" exclaimed Nine. dropplnx her spool and scissors and eprlnglng to her feet. “I have a beautiful “lee!â€" You always have to keep your Christmas presents, don't you? You never can lend them back. on you?” “Surely not,” w the mower. “But, mother, e'pose you wish your Chrletmu presenthndn’t come. Would It be very polite to tell the ones that five I{ to you that you were gettlng along nicely without their Christmas preeent and that you really didn’t want “Why. of course not. Nina. We nut think of the loving, thought bo- und the (in, even it Uncle John should lend'no amen this very win- tor!" ‘ "I winhlcouldleehlm hang up his flocking," continued Nina. "Oh, I wish I could put this penwiperrl'm making In the very toe of It!" “But he told no ‘no,’ don’t you re- mom ? He said he brought us to loath cilifornin on purpose no we could live aways In 1 summer land." , Mother sighed. The little mmny ”(Minotauotovwmwheh: M; ”M..â€" M1»__1. Mother and» Mn: nan tried to beâ€". lieve .he we: fight: but the little bungelow which they rented aiready furnished. teamed but 8 poor excuse for I home vâ€"â€"â€"'â€"â€"v - râ€" 'r -7 ~- â€"~"It Is a frondertul chance," he bod Inflated. Father was an nrtlst and he Ade- clared that he should like nothing better than to paint pictures of snowy penis with no one to Interrupt him and nothing else to do but to guard the compagy’a property. J . infirm? : Inmbot'eompany away up In the Sierra. Living in the moun- ulnl had been Mantra! through the summer. but It the first hint of cold weather the tent home Wu packed. fa- ther bought g mum and sent mother- uld the limo dgughter to the valley. said mother. “If he can live through the winter-h tho mountains, so could NOW had been falling In the mounteins many day- before Christmas. Down in the sunbright valley mower and little Nina used up st the shining _ penktlnd were home- Iick. They would ‘ltdly have forgot- ten enow, but father was in e moun- tein gebin all Alone.” ‘ “Will he hang his stockings by the Itone amplece?” naked Nine, “and don’t you I'pose he'll be ’vlted some- where to dinner!” Two am: new swiftly around moth- Volume 2 I NORTH SHORE NEWS -- LETTER il book- am for tho Falthfui aux-:17 They com Not. Haw Kant tho Tn", ' It On and on, up and up they tolled. the snow falling faster and later, the wind more furious every minute. One mile, two mum. By that time the snow blinded them and but for the faithful bun-ca they could not have ‘kept‘ the trail. It grew colder tad colder, and the short afternoon was ended. That meant sudden darkness; dmong those solemn, snowclad peaks. In the meantime the two plodded along on the sure looted burns, all- lng merrily to each other as they passed the‘ Wen-known lmdmarh. With fear for the safety 0!- hta pu- eengers. the stage driver drOve down the trail to the vuley. "See here," said he to A friend, "you can Brown up in half an hour and tell him that his vita 3nd daughter up on the trail." "The wires are down.” declared a big man who can In at tint moment from outside. “No use trying to tele- phone.” v At Fredslbn every " one W mother and Nina not to attempt the trail until morning. Thu time it was mother who would push' on. .f‘Wo know the trail so well." said she. “and the harm: know It better. In two hours we can reach camp." "It seems to moi" said ’the' stage driver as he watched the two disap- pear around the curye. “it seems to me that some folks haven’t any scale," md shutting his lips in I determined fashion he went to the telephone and called for Nina's rather. “I'll tell him his folks are coming and to so out to meet them". he explained to the men standing near. "Otherwise thepoor fellow may have a. surprise he won’t like 'on Christmas day." To the stage driver's dismay there was no mswer to his all. hther'l cahin In the Sierra wn evidently de~ sewed. “If the wind dosenft come up, you‘ll be all right," the man replied. but fitness I’m mistaken. there's O heavy snow falling in the mountain- thia minute}? “But we're Christmas presents,"~ ex plained Nina; “no we must surprtu him. Don‘t you know that tonight will be Christmas eve?" "Anybody going to meet you in Fredalba?" asked the stage driver. “The weather it; pretty severe up have alew thousand feet higher. find lots of rain in the valley and nut means snow storm In the mountains.“ "No one will meet us.” said moth; "but we know the mm from Fredalba end our bums nu ;here, although we didn't expect to see them again until next summer." ‘ ' “You can telephone from mam-.9 suggested the stage driver. “They tell me your husband ha a telephone out. at camp.” meant too. that mother mg Nina SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1908 Why the flood Thin. “Don't yogi think." unwanted _l young mm m hll mm at I dune. “tint we (1 move!!!“ up (59 room out I the tin-mutt?" “Oh, veil. It you like!” mu m gm mama-My. It was only when they moved nwny that the youth noticad that they had been beneath n Into bunch of nab “No we're all right and no no the bums." wu the reply. "on. hoiv glad everybody la!" the little girl exclnlmed. f‘And I'm hum andâ€"and father, we're your Chrlpt- mu present-l” ‘ "Are we frozen or “Wu'mfi- or?" asked the child. Father, tar sonata-on couldn't a) “thank you.” but didn't Ipeuh 01.n- turnlng the prudent 31ft- uld It I: doubtful If anywhere in the vule‘y be- low there wu such happiness:- an“) the mountfln cabin that Clad-(mu “Well, well, well!" he exclumedfi "Who told you the! we're having a Christmas dinner here this evening. turkey and all? Why, lln Nina, your father in or m it the able!" The next thing-Nina knew Ill. m in her tsther’s um and mother was removing her wraps. were thoroughly (tightened. ' They couldn’t talk except to um the bones on. The wind took their breath. “We won't be Christmss presents. for staid.” sobbed Nine; through chntterlng teeth. “Say your prayers.” wanted m er, “it is all we con do now." ‘They bed long since dropped the rains and trusted the “meta choose their own wu. 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