The farmer's boy . Sometimes a figurebrushed against the curtain, and it came bulging awayout into the room, and the four boys from the next townhad the greatest work to keep from exploding over tliefunniness of this; and, as it was, one of them tumbledoff from the narrow scat he occu])ied. Bv and bv there was a ([uieting in the tlurry up in front,and some one stood before the curtain with a paper inhis hand and announced that the first exercise of the even-ing would be thus-and-so. There was no astonishinggenius shown in what followed, but a person would haveto be verv d\s])eptic not to enjoy
The farmer's boy . Sometimes a figurebrushed against the curtain, and it came bulging awayout into the room, and the four boys from the next townhad the greatest work to keep from exploding over tliefunniness of this; and, as it was, one of them tumbledoff from the narrow scat he occu])ied. Bv and bv there was a ([uieting in the tlurry up in front,and some one stood before the curtain with a paper inhis hand and announced that the first exercise of the even-ing would be thus-and-so. There was no astonishinggenius shown in what followed, but a person would haveto be verv d\s])eptic not to enjoy the sim])licily and earnest-ness of it all. Each child had liis or lier indixidual way,and some of the participants were so small ihey couldonlv pipe and lis]) the words, and you didnt know whatthe\ said; bui when thiv madr their link bows and hur-ried off to find ihrir niolluTs, \()u and \hv rest of the au-dience were delighted, and ap])lau(led just the was a mdodcon at ont- sidi- of the room, and the. ClirislDiiis inoniitig Counrrv Children in (KMural 163 school sang scve-ral songs, and one of the young ladiessang a solo all alone, and they had a dialogue with SantaClaus in it, who was so dressed up in a long beard and afur coat and a deep voice that you wouldnt haw an}-idea it was only Hiram Taylor ! At length came the Christmas tree. How handsome itlooked, with the numerous packages and bright things hungamong its green twigs, and the strings of popcorn loopedall about, and the oranges and candy bags danglingeverywhere ! Three or four of the young jXOple took olfthe presents and called out names, and kej)! everybodygrovving hajjpier and ha])])ier. When the tree was bare,and even the po])corn and landy bags and oranges hadbeen distributed, some of the women folks got lixelv in acorner where there was a table piled all over with basketsand boxes. Then })lates began to circulate, and it wasfound that there was a pot boiling on the stove and asmell of coffee in the
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