The evening world. Newspaper, December 22, 1915, Page 15

Page views left: 0

You have reached the hourly page view limit. Unlock higher limit to our entire archive!

Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.

Text content (automatically generated)

CHARLES SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALMENTS, it Scrooge i a stingy ai Lom: a busines man, who refusen wo comaider Christ. | Sod foything tut a contly nulsante, On he fe confroated by the ghost of former busnem partner, who (Comtianed.) The First of the Three Spirits. | turned upon the Ghost, and, eecing that it looked upon Tim with a face in which, in fome strange way, there wero fragments of all the it had shown him, wrestled Take me back! Haunt In the struggle, if that can be called @ atrug@le in which the Gbost, with Bo visible resistance on Its own part, ‘Wad undisturbed by any effort of its @dversary, Scrooge observed that its light was burning high and bright, ‘and dimly connecting that with {ta int fluence over him, he seized the extin- guisher cap and by a sudden action Pressed it down upon its head, + |The Spirit dropped beneath it, so that the extinguisher covered’ its ‘whole form; but though Scrooge could not hide the lMght, from under it in an un- flood upon thi und, He was conscious of being exhaust- @é-and overcome by an irresistible jainess, and, further, of being in own bedroom. He gave the cap a squeese, in which his hand and had barely time to reel be bed before he sank into a heavy which STAVE THREE. The Second of the Three Spirits. WAKING in the middle of & prodigiously tough snore, l and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Seronge had no gecaston to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of one. Ho felt that he ‘Was restored to consciousness in the right nick of time, for the especial Durpese of holding a conference with him through Jacob Marley's interven- tion, But, finding that he turned un- comfortably cold when he began to wonder which of his curtains this Dew spectre would draw back, he put them every one aside with his own hands, and, lying down again, estab- Ushed @ sharp lookout all round the bed. For he wishod to challenge the Bpirit on the moment of its appear- nce, and did not wish to be taken by surpriee, and made nervoys. Genuiemen of the free-and-casy sort, who plume themselves on being @oquainted with a move or two, and being usually equal to the time of day, oxpreas the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing ‘that they are good for anything from pitch-and-toes to manslaughter; be- tween which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide end comprehensive range of subjects, ‘Without venturing for Scrooge quito as hafdily as thie, ft don't mind call- fng on you to believe that he was ready for a good broad field of strange @ppearances, and that nothing bes then exchanging a ta: tween @ baby and a rhinoceros would heve astonished him very much, Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepa for nothing; and, conse- quently, when the il struck one, and no shape appeared, he was taken with a violent fit of trembling. Vive minutes, ten minutes, a quarter of an Dour went by, ye ing came, All this time he lay upon his bed, the very © d centre of a blaze of ruddy wht, which streamed upon it when the clock proclaimed the hour, and which, being only Ifght, was more alarming than a dosen who as he was powerless to make out what It meant, or would be at; and was ‘some times apprehensive that he might bq at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous com- bustion, without having the consola~ tion of Knowing It. At last, however, he began to think~as you or T would have thought at fir for it is al- ways the person not In the prodica- ment who knows what ough dean done in it, and we tionably have done it too a he began to think that the so and weeret of this ghowtly sight might be in the adjoining room, from whence, on further tracing tt, it seemed to shine, ‘this idoa taking full posses- sion of his mind, he got up softly, and shuffied in his slippers to the door: , The moment Serooge's hand was on * a jolly tn it, and the ancient it down with all his force, he » The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, December A Christmas Carol a The Greatest Yuletide Story Ever Written oo PAAAAAS ICKENS easy state upon this couch there sat jant, glorious to see, who bore 4 glowing torch, in shape not unlike Plenty's horn, and held it up, high up, to shed its light on So) fo as he came peeping round the doo! "Cone 4ni™ exclaimed th Ghost— “come in and know me better, man! Scrooge entered timidly and hung his head before this spirit. He was not the do he had been, and thou the spirit's eyes were clear amd 1 he did not like to meet them. “Lam the Ghogt of Christmas Pres- ent,” said the spirit. “Loox upon me!" Scrooge réverently did so, It was clothed in one simple, deep green robe or mantle, bordered with white fur. ‘This garment hung so loosely on figure that its capacious breast was are, as if disdaining to be warded or concealed by any artifice. its feet, observable beneath the ampte robes of the garment, were also bare, and on its head it wore no other coverin) than @ holly wreath, set bere an there with shining icicles. Its dark brown curls were long and free; free ag its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, its oheery voice, its un- constrained demeanor and its joyful air, Girded round itw middle was an antique scabbard, but no sword was eath was eaten up with rust, “You have never seen the lik. of before!" exclaimed the Spirit. “Never,” Scrooge made answer to it, “Have never walked forth with the younger members of my family; meaning (for I am very young) my elder brothera born in these later y 7" pursued the Phantom, ‘ink I have,” aaid Scrooge. 1 have a ere you many brothers, Spi lore than eighteen hundred,” sald the Ghost. “A tremendous family to provide for,” muttered Scrooge. The Ghost of Christmas Present rose. “Spirit,” sald Scrooge submissively, “conduct mo where you will. I went forth last night on compulsion, and 1 learnt a lesson which is working nor To-night, if you have aught to teach me, let me proilt by it.’ “Touch my robe!" "I don’ ‘T am Scrooge did as he was told, and held it fast. Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, ‘meat, Digs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit and punch all vaniehed Instant- ly. So did the room, the fire, the ruddy glow, the hour of night; and they stvod in the city streets on Christmas morning, where (for the weather was severe) the people made a rough, but brisk and not unpleasant, kind of music in scraping the snow from the pavement in front of their dwellings, and from the tops of their houses, whence it was mud delight to the boys to see it come piumping down into the road below and aplitting into artificial little snow-storms, The house fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting them with the smooth, white sheet of snow upon the raofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground; whieh last deposit had been ploughed up in deep furrows by the avy wheels of carts and wagons; furrows that crossed and recrossed each other hundreds of times where the great streets branched off: and made intricate channels, hard to trace, In the thick yellow mud and icy water, The aky was gloomy, and the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist, baif thawed, halt frozen, whose heavier partiotes de- seended in a shower of sooty @toms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by one consent, caught fire, and ‘blazing away wi to their dear heart's content. There was nothing very cheerful in the climate or the town, and yet was there an air of cheerfulness abroad that the clearest summer alr and brightest summer pun might have endeavored to dift- fuse In vain, For the people who were shovelling away on the housetops were jovial and full of glee, calling out to one an- other from the parapets, and now and fous snow- ball—better natured missile far than many 4 wordy jest—laughing heart- ily if it went right, and not less heartily if tt went wrong, The poul- terers’ sh were still half open and the fruite: * were radiant in their glory. There were great, round pot- bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waist of jolly old gen- Hlemen, loliing at the doors and tum- bilng out into the street in their apo- plectic opulence, There were brown-faced, .broad-girthed Span! onions, shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish friars, and wink- ing from their shelves in wanton sly- ness at the girls as they went by, and glanced demurely at the hunk- up mistletoe. Thero were pears and apples, clustered high In blooming pyramids; there were bunches of rapes, made, in the shopkeepers enevolence, to dangle from conspic- ous hooks, that people's mouths night water gratis ag they passed; there were piles of Alberts, mossy and brown, fecailing, in their fragrance, ancient walks among the woods, and pleasant shufflings ankle deep through withered leaves; there were Norfolk pippins, small and swarthy, setting bff the vellow of the oranges and lem- o nd, in the great compactness of their juley persons, urgently entreat- ing and beaeeching to be carried home in paper bags and eaten after dinner, The very gold and silver fish, forth among these choice fruits in a dy, ish bowl, though members of a dull and stagnant-blooded race, appeared to know was something the lock, a strange voice called him yoing a fish, went gasping by hie name, and bade him entes © round nd their little world in ved, law a rf shaves ‘s hinown room, There was no "the era’! ol, grocers’! doubt abont that. But it had under- pearly closed, with perhaps two shut cone 9 anrprising transformation. The ters down, or one; but through those walle «coiling were sv hung with gaps such glimpses! It was not living green that it looked a perfect alone that the scales descending on grave; fom every part of which the counter madé a merry sound, or writ ving berries glistened. that the twine and roller part Th isp leaves of holly and dvy¥ pany so briskly, or that the canisters veflocted back the ight, as if somany were rattled up and down like jug- little mirrors had heen scattered there, and much) a mighty blage went roar- ing un the chimney a that dull petri- freation of a hearth hud never known or Marley's, or for ny and muny & winter season gone, Hlenped upon the (loor ta form « kind of thr > Turkeys, Reese, SAME, Joints of meat, sucking 8. Me hy of sauaages, mince Hirt lings, barrels of oys- tors, red hot chestnuts, ch juley oranges, use mena twelfth cakes and pewin'of minoh that made the cham= ber dim with their delicious steam, La gling tricks, or even that the blended scents of tea and coffea were 90 grateful to the nose, or even that the raising were go plentiful and rare, the almonds so extremely white, the atickx of cinnamon xo long and straight, the other spices so delicious, the tod fruits caked and 4 with molten sugar ax to e the coldest lo on feel fa xubsequently bilious, Nor was it at the fas were t and pulpy, oF that the Freneh plums blushed in modest tartness from their highly decorated boxes, or that everything was good to eat and in its Christmas 22/191 Can You Beat [t? «th. By Maurice Ketten IT'S ALWAYS A ian oF AK Cratohit family drew round hearth in whit Bob Cratehit called 4 circle, merning half a one; and at Rob Cratehit's elbow at the \° ly display of glasm——two tumblerr, One most." and a@ curtard cup without @ handle. These held the hot stuff from the {UB However, as well as golden ote Would have done; and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chestnuts on Ahe_ fire ttered and cracked noi: b proposed: to us all, my mily re-echoed, aw ery one!” said Tiny Tim, the last of all, Hie sat very close to his father’ upon his little stool, Bob held = withered little hand in his as if he loved the child and wished to keep him by his side and dreaded that he might be taken from him, pirtt,” anid Borcowe with an in- terest ho had never felt before, “tel me if Tiny Tim will live.” “I see a vacant seat,” replied the Ghost, “in the poor chimney corner, and a grutch without an owner fully preserved, Lf these shado: main upeltered by the. future the phild will die,” ‘No, no,” sald Scrooge, “Oh, no, kind Spirit! say he will be spared.” “It Unese shadows remain unal red by the Future none other of my race, returned the Ghost, “shi find him here, What then? If he be like to d! he had fms} Cod it, and decreane the surplus population. torcoge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome wh penitence and AS 4 FIDDLE How SILLY OF NE To LET MY CANE ALL “” tho Ghost, “if man rt, Not adamant, for- and w Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall dle? It may be that in the sight of Heaven OU are nore worthless and less ft to Hive than millions ike this poor man's Te. Ts feng O God! to hear be foams ioe the leaf pronouncing on the too muc Side tates Moe life among his hungry brothers tn the Foor | | aust! WITH HER SHOE Scrooge pent before the ON . rebuke, and, grembl upon the ground, But h speedily, on hearing his own name, “Mr, Scrooge!” said Bob; “Ui give a) Mr. Berooge, the Founder of ¢! tt Founder of the east. fi cried Mrs. Cratohit, retidentni a plece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope hed have a good appetite for it,” My dear," said Bob, “the chfldren! | Christmas Day. ft should be Cheiationg Day, T am sure,” said she, “on which one drinks the health of such an odious, hard, unfeeling man as- Mr, You know he ‘lt: Rebert! Nobody pee it better than you do, poor ‘My was Bob's mild answer, “Christmas Day. and the Da: Merry newnes nd a Happy New Year! Stent very merry and very the wlted! Ghost’s bad deed “L wish | pad him bere, I'd give him é@rne t How it bared its breadth of reast, and opened capacion! palm, and floated on, outpouring, with A generous hand, its bright and harmless mirth on be eidern wna its reach! The very lamplieh ho fan on before, dotting the dusky street Pith specks of light, and who was drow: to spend the evening some- Where, laughed out loudiy as the Spirit passed, though jittle kenned the lamplighter that he hed any company but Christmas! And pow, without a word of warn- ing fr the Ghost, they stuod upon ® bleak and desert moor, where Monstrous masses of rude stone were east about, as though it wore the burial place of giants; and water spread itwelf wheresoaver it listed; or would have done so, but for the frost that held It prisoner; and noth- ing grew but toss and furze, and Da rasa, wn in the west petting had left « streak of &, ret, nich glared upon the denotation for an in- tant, ike a len eye, and frowning lower, lower, er yet, Was lost in the thick giodm of darkert gight. ‘ thie?” asked ‘oat place ts Ecrooge, ‘A place whore miners live, who labor in the bowels of the earth,” re- turned the Spirit. “But they know me, Bee!” A light shone from the window of ® hut and swiftly they advanced to- ward It. Passing through the wall of mud and stone they found w cheerful company assembled round a glowt fire An old, old man and woma: with their choldren, and another gen- eration beyond that, all decked out gayly in their holiday attire. The old man, in a voloe that seldom rose above the howling of the wind upon the barren waste, wea singing them @ Christmas song—it had a Very old song when ha was a and from time to time t! all in the chorus. So surely as falsed their voices, the old man go! quite blithe and loud; and eurely aa they stopped, hia vigor sank again The Spirit did not tarry here, but | Cars, rank le Berooge hold his robe, a ing on. above. the meen whither? Not to sea? To sea. To Seroowe’s horror, looking he saw the last of the land, a frightful range of rocks, behind them 1 ears were deafened by the thunder- ing of wator an it rolled, and roared and among the dreadful ¢av- it worn and fleroely tried to undermine the earth, Bult upon a dismal reef of sunken rocks, some league or 50 from shore, on which the waters ochafed and dashed, the wild year through, there stood 4 solitary Mehthouses Grant heape of sea-weed clung té itsyhase, and storm-birda—born of the wind, one might suppone as seaweed of and fell about ft like waves they But watched ‘the Veit Naavmade «five, through ins the titel atone wail” shed nowt a ray of brightness on the awful sea. Join- ing their horny hands over the rough table at which they sat, they wished each other Merry Christmas in their Gress; but the customers were all 0 withstanding his tic _aize, he to clear away this ther!” Such a bustle ensued that you of grog; and one of them, , hurried and go eager in the hopetul could rete gs imaelf to any ‘Well, never as you might have thought # goose the rar- berry tare i Fong tank Adie eldar, too, with his face all promise of the day, that they tumbled place with ease; and that he stood are come,” said “Bit ye est of all birds; a feathered phenom- here as Waa 3. Mtet of thei “tod and wie hee ‘weather, as the Up against each other at the door, oath a low roof quite as grace- down before t! my , and enon, to which a black swan was a La Iioht bad Sart Lug i” figure-head of an old ship might be, crashing their wicker baskets wildly, fully, and like a supernatural creat- bave a warm, Lord bless yer" , Matter of course—and in truth it was my whic! ‘4 hie 1 Aged ‘ait, bet truck up a sturdy song twas like and left their purchases upon:the ure, as jt was possible he could “No, no! There's father coating.’ romething very Iike it in that house. if yi Tim dran! tor te rH & Bale in iteclf. counter, and came running back to have done in any lofty hall. cried the two young Cratohite, who Mra, Cratchit made the gravy (ready be co | gare trepene? r “e rooge in the Ghost eped on, above the fetch them, and committed hundreds ~anq perhaps it was the pleasure Were everywhere once, “Hide, beforehand in a little saucepan) hiss. Was the Ogre of the family. be rae black and heaving eea—on, on—untll, ot like mistakes, in the best humor ¢ne good Spirit had in showing oft tie Martha, hide!” ing hot; Master Peter mashed the ton of his name cast a dark low being far away, as he told Scrooge, possible; while the grocer and his © of his, or else it was hig own , 50 Martha hid herself, and in came potatoes with incredible vigor, Miia 0” the party, which was not dispelled trom any shore, they Mghted on people were sg frank and fresh that enerous, hearty nature, and little Bob, the father, with at least Relinda awente la sauce, for full five minutes, ship, They stood beside the helme- the polished hearts with which they his sympathy with all poor men that three feet of comforter, exclusive of Martha dusted the hot plates, Hob After it had passed away they were man at the wheel, the lookout in the fastened their aprons behind, might jeq him straight to Scrooge’s Sfarieat the fringe, hanging down before him: took Tiny Tim beside wim in & tiny. ten times morfler than before, from thew, the officers who haa the wateh : have been their own, worn outside for for there he went, and took Serooge “04 his threadbare clothes darned up corner at the table, the two young the mere relief of Scrooge the baleful dark, figures in their severe! general inspection, and for there with him, holding to his robe; and brushed, to look seasonable; and Cratchita set chairs for everybody, being done with: Bob Cratehtt told a § every man among them daws to peck at, if they chose. and on the threshold of the door the Tim upon his shoulder. Alas not forgetting themselves, and mount- them how he had a situation in his hummed a Christmas tune or e But soon the ateeples called good Spirit smiled, and ato) to bless for Tiny Tim, he bore a little crutch, j, guard upon their posts, crammed eye for Master Peter, which om ee ctastene people all to church and chapel, and Bob Cratchit’s dwelling with ‘the and had his timbs supported by an ne into thelr mouths leat they bring in, tf obtained, full five-and- his breath to his of some away they came, flocking through sprinkling of his torch. ‘Think of Iron frame! should, shriek for goose before their #ix-peyoe weekly. The two youns bywone Pow, with heme- the strvets in their best clothes, and that! Bob had but Afteen “Bob a “Why, wher our Martha?” cried turn came to be helped. At laat the Cratehit lenge’ tremendously at ward hopes x - with their gayest faces. And at the week himself; he pocketed on Bat- Boh Cratchit, looking round, dishes were set on, and grace was idea of Peter's being a man of busl- And every man on yng ig same time there emerged from score# urdays but fifteen copies of his ‘Not coming,” said Mrs. Cratchit. said. It was succeeded by a breath- ness; and Peter himself looked sl Hag, Boos oe of by-streets, lanes, and nameless Christian name; and yet the Ghost of “Not coming!" sald Bob, with a less pause, as Mrs, Cratchitt, looking thoughtfully at the fire from between wo! ‘one on thet day turnings, innumerable people, carry- Christmas Present blessed his four- sudden declension in hia high apiritay slowly along the carving knife, pre- hin collars, as if he were dell than on any day tn the 1: and rad ing their dinners to the bakers’ shops. roomed house! for he had been Tim's blood horse all pared to plunge it in the breast; but what particular investments he should shared to eo, crane 4 ‘The sight of these poor reveliurs ap- ‘Then up rose Mra. Cratchit, Crat- the way from church, and had come when she did and when the long- favor when he came into the receipt ties; and had remem! those peared to interest the Spirit very chit's wife, dressed out but poorly in home rampant. “Not com\ng upon expected gush of stuffing issued forth, of that bewildering tnoome. cared for at & “ecigtted bad much, for he stood, with Scrooge be- & twiceturned gown, but brave in Christmas Day one murmur of delight arose all Martha, who was a poor apprentice Known thet they del Te- side him, in a baker's doorw: ribbons, which are cheap and make @ Martha didn't [lke to see him dis- around the board, and even Tiny Tim, at ~ milliner’s, then told them what member him. taking off the covers as their diy show for sixpence; and. she inted, if It were only in joke; no two young Cratchits, Kind of work she had to do, and how It was @ Ley? surprise to passed, sprinkled incense on their laid the cloth, assisted by Belinda she came out prematurely from be- beat on the table with the handle many hours she worked at @ atretch, while letening to the moaning dinners from his torch, And It was Cratchet, second of her daughters, hind the closet door, and ran into of his knife and feebly cried Hurrah! and how she meant to lie abed to. wind, and thinking whet « @ very uncommon kind of torch, for l#o brave in ribbons; while ler his arms, whi the two young — There never was euch a goose, Bob morrow morning for a good, long to move on once or twice When thero were angry Peter Cratchit plunged © fork into Cratchits hustied Tiny Tim and bore said he didn't believe there ever was rest; to-morrow being a holiday she ness over an wi words between some dinner-carriers the saucepan of potatoes, and getting him off into the wash-house that he h a goose cooked, Its tenderness passed at home. Alao how sbé had depths CT who had jostled each other, he shed the corne: . of hie monstrous abirt- might hear the pudding singing In and flavor, sige and cheapness were seen @ countess and a lord #ome days death—it @ great a few drops of water on them from it, f rotacw (Bo! fe pateae apart: Seer copper. av The themes of universal admiration, ago, and how the lord “was mu to Scrooge, while e and their good humor was restored 7 "i y 4} os gis iy a “noe ‘And how did little Tim behave?’ Bked out by apple sauce and mashed about as tall as Peter:” at whi te hear a hearty . Tt directly, For they said it was a Of the " 38 . ipeate (Niner asked Mrs. Cratchit, when she had potatoes, Tt was a sufficient dinner Peter pulled up his collars #o hi ter Aw Ld shame ‘to quarrel upon Christmas (0 (nd himself so gallantly actined, rallied Bob on his credullt; d Bob for the whole family; indeed, us Mra. that you couldn't have seen his head ise it as his own Day. And so It was! God love It, 80 fashionable. parka,” And. now” two fae amass nis Gaygiijar’ t Dis Cresent oeid with srene delight (nur’ If yout had been there, 4 No End bimeett te 0 ! 1 1 . all » a ming Toom, w! it wag! mailer Cratchits, boy and girl, came ‘gold,” said Bob, “and tho dish), they hadn't ate it all at ),A!,thls time the cheocmute and the f flow at In time the bells ceased, and the Jug went round and round: and by tearing in, screaming that outside the last! Yet every one had bakers were shut up: and'yst there baker's they had smelt the Room, and pawer, Somehow he gets thoughtful, el Yet wtey one had hed enoueh and by they had @ song, about a lost was 4 genial shadowing forth of all known it for their own; and, basking tins the strangest things you ever Ular were steeped in sage and onion mpiny iin who had a sae hele these dinners, and the progress of in luxurious thoughts of sage and heard He told me ‘coming home that to the eyebrows! Put now, the Tay’, Tm : os a piatative Iitele their cooking, in the thawed blotch of onion, these young Cratchita he ho} the people saw him in the Plates being changed by Miss Be~ ‘yi’ ba et very well indeed. Wet above each baker's oven, where about the table, and exalted Master church because he was a cripple, and it linda, Mrs, Cratehit left the room nae s nothing of high mark in Peter Cratchit to the skies, while he (not proud, although his collars near- ly choked him) blew the fire, until the pavement smoked were cooking too. “Is there a peculiar flavor in what this. ‘They were not a handsome if its stones family; they were not well drenned their shoes were far from bein; might be pleasant to them to re- alone—too nervour to bear witnesses member, upon Christmas Day, who ~-to take the pudding up and bring made lame begwars walk and blind It tn, bubbling up, waterproof; their clothes were scanty: sprit a men eee,’ SI it shoul fe dol Ayes t prinkle from your torch? caucepan-lid to ER ete tremulous when he Peres pe ilcag ae y oe ne and Peter might have known, and very ‘My own." ba let out and peeled. told them this, and tremblet more turning out! Suppose somebody Rtly lid: the ingide “Would it apply to any kind of gq yylit Pas ever, Kot your precious when he suid ‘that Tiny Tm was should have got over the wall of the prvkers. ut they were dinner on this day?” asked Scrooge fAther, then?’ eaid Mra, Cratchit, growing strong and hearty, back yard. and stolen it, while they F ith one an Tiny Tim? And contented with the time; last Christmas they faded, and looked happier yet in the briaht aprinklings of the Splrii Mia active little cruteh was heant upon the floor, and back came Tiny ‘Tim before ancther word was spoken, “To any Kindly given were merry with the position at Cratchits became livid! Te @ poor g00Re—a sup the two young All sorts of whieh “Why to a poor one most?’ asked Day by half an hour! Scrooge “Here’a Martha, mother,” said @ escorted by his brother and sister to horrors were supposed. toreh at parting, erooge had his eye rH + girl, appearing as she spo! le stoot beside the fire; and while qgatio: A. ureat deal of mteam? MPO? them, and especially on ‘Tiny ecause it needs it most “Here's Martha, mother!” cried the Bob, turning up his euffy—as if, poor pit" krewt deal of steam! pin, until the lust “Spirit” sald Serooge, after a mor two young Cratchia. “Murrah! fellow, thoy wers capable of ‘being AP" buddinw wan out of the copper. “iy this time tt wus gotiing dark ment's thought, “t wender you, of all ‘Thera auch « koose, Marth mada’ more ‘shabby compounded ©. smell like hing ay! Thee ang mowing pretty Manette] and’ aa tho beings in the may worlds about “Why, bless your heart alive, my some hot mixture in a jug with feat wae et Nike RA) cat. Sericeerana we mpicie meet Gene the us desire to cramp thee dear, how late you are!” said Mra, gin and lemons, and stirred it round j/'8 Neuse and, Fa Inuntreccs streets, the brightness of the roaring people's opportunities of Innocent en- Cratchit, kiewing her @ dogen times, and round, and put it on the stove (out ta eich other, with a luundrens'a A osin fie Uiehiiens Oe tio roaring 4 nt: and taking off her shawl and bonnet to simmer, Master Peter and the two j\ONl, lope t) Llatl Phat was te eee ey Was wonderful, Here. the erled the Spirit. for her with ofMflcious seal. ubiguitoun young Cratchite went to Pudiine! in halt o minute Mrs. ickeriag of the Digse ahowed prepas “You would deprive them of thelr "We'd a deal of work to finish up fetch the goose, with which they Urstentt entered —Aushed but omiltng GloKaring “OF te Tiegh CaAwNs ReNee: means of dl y seventh day 0 By udly-— Uke or a co 3 Ghen the only tao oe tine ie ras last night,” replied the giv! “and Bed soon returned tn high procession kpeckled cannon ball, so hard and plates baking throogh and through be said to dine at all,” satd Scrooge; eS ELL Se ——— firm, blizing tn half of half-a-quart- before the fire, and deep red curtains “wouldn't you ‘ i ern of ignited brandy, and bedight ready to be drawn to shut out cold and "You seak to close these places on with Christmas holly stuck into the darkness. ‘There all the children of the seventh Day,” said Scro ARE YOU top. the house were ranning out into the “And it comes to the same thing. Ob, a ow ful pudding! Rob snow to meet thelr murried let “T seek!" exclaimed the Spirlt || ONE OF THE MANY THOUSAND PEOPLE WHO ARE READING |Cratchit pala a calmly, t that prof Lage Saya aes unts an “forgive me if Lam wrong, 7) was} ne regarded it as the greatest success 2 first to been done in your name, or east THE EVENING WORLD'S Jachieved by Mrs. Cratehit since thelr we rw Shadawe! en eh in that of your family,” said ‘00Ke marriage. Mrs. Cratchit said that, Wena f pI “There are some upon this earth of Comp ete ove Cc. ee | now the WolKht waa off her mind. ghd ¥r ro up of handsome at rs yours," returned the Spirit, “who la A |would confess she had doubts all hooded Lr hooted, and diaim fo know us, ant who do thei If net, you are rebbing yourself ef the richest fiction treat ever Bo anout tne quantity of fo! Evory- chattering at once, tripped limbtly off deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, offered to the rea: of a newspaper. body had aon about It, to some near neighh: house, where, ha- ething to say tred, envy, bigotry and ‘selfishness In | The Evening World, every week, printa a novel by some famous Fibut nobody sald or thought it was wee upon the single man who saw our name, who are as strange to us, | author, These novels are issued complete in glx large daily instalments, jat oll a smatl pudding for « large them enter—artful witches! well they and all our kith and kin, as ff they They are ecloeted with a view te suiting the tastes of all readers, family. tt would have been at horesy knew it--tn a glow Fé 7 had never lived. Remember that, and| [And the tremendous success ef the plan has long been to do Ko y Cratchit would have Tut, if you had Judged from the charae their doings on themselves. In The E Ww “COMPLETE NOVEL | blushed to hint at such a thing humiare of people on thelr way te 0! J ” uel ne ae a one, the . or i) i ne bi promised that he would; saries is the foremost work of euch “best-seller” authors as Robert W. lee ol Poe Ny rn u h aw , te . » wee ‘al home to and they went op, invisible, as they Chambers, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Rupert Hughos, James Oliver Cure Bia in. if rhe compe 1) welcome When they got had been before, into the sipurbs of wood, Morgan Robertson, Margaret Widdemer, George Randolph Chee- in the jug s tasted, and there, Instead of every house expeet- the town, Lt was a remarkable qua ter, Louie Joseph Vance, Edgar Rice Burroughs and many others ef Bi ered perfoc!, apples and oranges were ing company, and piling ap its fires equal eslebnity, ity of the Ghost (which Serooge had observed at the baker's), that not- put upon the table, and y borh lof chestnuts on the fire. ‘son it, how the Ghowt ex 4 shovelful Then all the half-chit Blesain approving a Mhity! ita. en laughed = Serooge’s nephew. “Ha, ba, ha!” If you should happen, by any un- Ukely chance, to know a man mere blest in a laugh than . nephew, al! I can say is, I should like to know him, too. Introduce him to me, and T'll cultivate his a ite ance It la a fair, even-handed, noble ad- Justment of things, that, while there is Infection in disease and sorrow, there Is nothing in the world so !r- ‘© resistibly contagious as laughter and good-humor. When Serooge’s nephew laughed in this way, holding his sides, rolling bis head, and twisting hia fa Into the most extrayagant contor- tions, Scroore’s niece, by marriage, Jaume. heartily a» he, And thelr assemble friends, bewra not a bit bee hindhat roared out lustily “He, ba! Ha, ha, ha, hat’ “He sald that Christmas was a humbug, as_T live!" cried Serooge's nephew, “He believed ‘it, tool “More shame for him, Fred!" sald Berooge's niece indignaotiy, Bless those women! they never do anything by halves, They are always in oarn- est She was very pretty, pretty, With @ dimp! looking capital face, ripe, iette mouth that seemed made to be Kissed 8 no doubt it was; all kinds of good Jittle dot# about her chin, that melted inte one another whep she laughed; and the sunniest pair of eyes you ever saw in any Iittle crea. ture's head, Altogether she was what you would have called provoking, you know; but satisfactory, too, Oh, pers fectly satisfactory! “He's a comieal old fellow,” sald go's nephew, “that's the truth; and not so pleasant as he might be However, his offenses carry thelr own? punishment, and Ut have nothing te say against him.” (To Be Continued)

Other pages from this issue: