Around the tea-table . CHRISTMAS BELLS. CHRISTMAS BELLS. 205 a liberal portion to the table of the poor, some ofthe white meat as well as the dark, not confiningyour generosity to gizzards and scraps. Do not,as in some families, keep a plate and chair forthose who are dead and gone. Your holiday feastwould be but poor fare for them: they are at abetter banquet in the skies. Let the whole land be full of chime and bells, silver and brazen, take their sweetestvoice, and all the towers of Christendom rainmusic. We wish all our friends a Merry Christmas. Let them hang up their stockings;
Around the tea-table . CHRISTMAS BELLS. CHRISTMAS BELLS. 205 a liberal portion to the table of the poor, some ofthe white meat as well as the dark, not confiningyour generosity to gizzards and scraps. Do not,as in some families, keep a plate and chair forthose who are dead and gone. Your holiday feastwould be but poor fare for them: they are at abetter banquet in the skies. Let the whole land be full of chime and bells, silver and brazen, take their sweetestvoice, and all the towers of Christendom rainmusic. We wish all our friends a Merry Christmas. Let them hang up their stockings; and if Santa Claus has any room for us in his sleigh, we will get in and ride down their chimney, upsetting all over the hearth a thousand good CHAPTER XXXII. THE MONDA YISH FEELING. IT is just fifteen minutes of five by the clock onmy mantel, and Monday morning. Heaven islooking in at both windows—the sun rising with avery red eye, as if it had not slept much last birds are all up, some singing, but two ofthem seem to be quarreling, as if they had hadtrouble in the choir yesterday. The world neverbefore looked so fair from my window. Can it bethat there is any such thing as trouble ? I havewaded up to my study-table, not like the Israelitescoming dry-shod, but through a bath-tub andnothing but dullness drowned. Thank God for water and a Turkish towel!Alas for those who have only an old-time wash-basin at the spout outside the front door, and whothink they have done their duty when they havecleansed their finger-tips and the corners of theireyes! A continent, with the Atlantic Ocean onone side and the Pacific Ocean on the other, oughtto take the hint and be very clean. 206 THE MONDA YISH FEELING. 20J I wonder if o
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