A Christmas carol . SM f^ H Cbristmas Carol some league or so from shore, on which thewaters chafed and dashed, the wild yearthrough, there stood a solitary heaps of sea-weed clung to its base,and storm-birds — born of the wind one mightsuppose, as sea-weed of the water — rose andfell about it, like the waves they skimmed. But even here, two men who watched thelight had made a fire, that through the loop-hole in the thick stone wall shed out a ray ofbrightness on the awful sea. Joining theirhorny hands over the rough table at whichthey sat, they wished each other Merry Christ-
A Christmas carol . SM f^ H Cbristmas Carol some league or so from shore, on which thewaters chafed and dashed, the wild yearthrough, there stood a solitary heaps of sea-weed clung to its base,and storm-birds — born of the wind one mightsuppose, as sea-weed of the water — rose andfell about it, like the waves they skimmed. But even here, two men who watched thelight had made a fire, that through the loop-hole in the thick stone wall shed out a ray ofbrightness on the awful sea. Joining theirhorny hands over the rough table at whichthey sat, they wished each other Merry Christ-mas in their can of grog ; and one of them :the elder, too, with his face all damaged andscarred with hard weather, as the figure-headof an old ship might be : struck up a sturdysong that was like a Gale in itself. Again the Ghost sped on, above the blackand heaving sea — on, on — until, being faraway, as he told Scrooge, from any shore,they lighted on a ship. They stood besidethe helmsman at the wheel, the
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