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. Book of the Royal blue . Church Where the Pn The absence of all demonstrationshowed clearly the awe with which theevent was regarded. The silence andsolemnity of the surroundings was im-pressive. Mrs. Brown had returned to Charles-town, and sat in a room at the hotel allthrough that morning. Governor Wisehad directed that her husbands mortal re- mains should be delivered to her, and shemet the body at Harpers Ferry. Her hus-band had wished to have his remains cre-mated, but to this she could not took the body to north Elba, N. Y.,and there, after an impressive service, theremains o
. Book of the Royal blue . Church Where the Pn The absence of all demonstrationshowed clearly the awe with which theevent was regarded. The silence andsolemnity of the surroundings was im-pressive. Mrs. Brown had returned to Charles-town, and sat in a room at the hotel allthrough that morning. Governor Wisehad directed that her husbands mortal re- mains should be delivered to her, and shemet the body at Harpers Ferry. Her hus-band had wished to have his remains cre-mated, but to this she could not took the body to north Elba, N. Y.,and there, after an impressive service, theremains of fearless old Captain Brown wereplaced beneath the shadow of a A CHRISTMAS STORY. ERNEST W. BRIDGEWOOD, IN PEARSONS. TWO little beds placed side by side,In a nursery somewhere about;Two little figures dressed in white, And talking! (twas wrong, no doubt).One little moon just peeping in, Saw a stocking on each small are meant for legs, said he,But Im certain those are not. One youngster said: The chimneys small, And hes fat, they say, and old;Could Grandpapa come down that way, If you gave him his weight in gold?Said the other: The presents, you know How sooty they would be;If they are, it shows hes come that way, If theyre not, hes not, you see. Two little heads went slowly down, And four little eyes were closed;When two dark figures came softly in By the door, its to be supposed:They stopped a while at each yawning mouth Of those stockings hanging there;Whilst the moon remarked to a little star, Walking toy-shops, I declare. The sun came out, and the moon went home, The stars had ceased to shine;When those two little men seized a s
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