The farmer's boy . there was a pot boiling on the stove and asmell of coffee in the air. About nineteen differentkinds of cake started on tluir wanderings, and tlurewere biscuits and nuts; and you had a chance to talkwith everybody and show your ])resents, and altogetherhad so good a lime tliat you felt as if the ])leasure wouldlast the whole year llirough. It would take many books to tell all there is to tell aboutthe farmers boy; and where can we better leave him thanthis Chri>tmas night, with the re>t of the family, snugged 164 The Farmers Boy up among the robes of the sleigh, on the
The farmer's boy . there was a pot boiling on the stove and asmell of coffee in the air. About nineteen differentkinds of cake started on tluir wanderings, and tlurewere biscuits and nuts; and you had a chance to talkwith everybody and show your ])resents, and altogetherhad so good a lime tliat you felt as if the ])leasure wouldlast the whole year llirough. It would take many books to tell all there is to tell aboutthe farmers boy; and where can we better leave him thanthis Chri>tmas night, with the re>t of the family, snugged 164 The Farmers Boy up among the robes of the sleigh, on the way home?The lantern on the dashboard flashes its light along theroad ahead, the horses hoofs strike crisply on the frozensnow, the bells jingle, and the sky overhead ghtters fullof radiant stars. In the ghding sleigh are the children,holding their precious presents in their laps, and still inanimated conversation reviewing the events of the sleigh moves on, they are lost to sight — the book A picture book SEP le 1907
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