awful this and prices big. scarce year ’low I mebbe we’d better all sell ourn and Christmas eat Simon for dinner. our One ain’t he good and goose any than eats hog the place.” more any on “ ’Pears liko Simon just made was to die anyhow,” agreed Mary. young, “La! the times I’ve him!” reskewed Fully month before Christmas city a people began to send out to engage Farmer two of Martin’s well one or turkeys. known A week before the day Mary shut Ann all the salable up turkeys and Simon in couple of large a carriage crates which served as coops. They have the choicest must food and be ready deliver the to into hands the stiff-backed of coachmen many who for them daily. The gobblers came their fine spread tails and young red with indignation; but Simon grew took it philosophically all as as was his wont, contentedly eating more than his of share food and was on the days wallowing in basin of warm drinking water. Soon all of the turkeys but two were carried handsome One of the two, away. a Col. Robertson gobbler, young and his for grandson would call on Thursday. and stiffly the Proudly turkey down strutted and young up the gobbled his and now roomy cage, protest from night the morning till at top his his of voice. Simon lay at in the blinked his basin and at ease irate companion if the air around as him did fairly reek with garlic. not Whenever the turkey too came near in his swollen only pride it was necessary for Simon his mouth and to open extend his tongue. At the Colonel his last for came turkey r and bore him still ay, aw protesting volubly. Only Simon and an undersized hen turkey remained. “It ain’t much of turkey, that’s a a fact,’ acknowledged Farmer Martin as yO';’’ v<J? he Ann the Friday and Mary passed pen evening. US PR.oI.BfS £/ r “She ain’t r orth much. Wouldn’t * w than Simon tomorrow?” ruther I’d kill her you queried tentatively Mary who Ann, with her Simon, ran eyes on With the with of David lighted and Christ through this tapers, dark sprung. if food to the bars to was more see historic and mind these winding the thus awakened by various to cave forthcoming. the shrines journeys along to and tombs hewm the spots, of out one and “Goose enough for is good me, sides. gateway the town. leading into Mebbe Simon ain’t value. money no Bethlehem 6,000 inhabitants. has about Grotto Limestone. in that turkey will fatten ’gainst up poorly The streets narrow, are right spring and make respectable a The ot grotto is formed in ridge stretch a paved, with scarcely level a Martin. mother hen,” replied Farmer soft limestone and is 39 feet long and r of here, houses while low-sized Simple anyw Simon’s Part she in “She’s likely unless not to from twelve feet ten to wide. It is streets. stone line of the both sides victuals,” makes better fight for her paved with a stone flags, and the walls The the houses lower floor of of many Ann returned. “Pears like Simon Mary with white covered marble. are workshop, is Christmas used for booth Dinner a or of ’em in spite of all I gets most Turning a can the right to enter we engaged passageway where a natives principally are he don’t know He’s sich fool do. the a to altar of St. Eusebius of in making trinkets rosaries or enough. when he’s Most got Cremona, a of which seems is built his over pearl, r ood. coral and olive w critter.” pity kill such silly to tomb. He friend a of St. Jerome, was a the most The inhabitants for are had He That night Mary Ann F ANY Speckle’s queerly sensation had then. of old the gosling and everything to aid him the in founding came Christians. They bright part appearing, are HI in readiness for the he born for paddling, and seemed of monastery morrow, at Bethlehem. assorted brood stepchildren as He a were favorably neatly and dressed more early planning rise and paddled he kept bobbing his head to afterward became prepare the superior of it, adopted she only never or of the people impress than one breakfast, for Mary the substance and before down into white Simon and died in 422 A. even D. much betrayed it by even so blood Jerusalem. It said that the is that hard acknowledged is to fetching the appetizing most We goose next to the chapel a up rf come the Truth roll of her upward eye. of as an of the the veins crusaders flows in had things. Evidently the world been dress. Tombs. well Speckle tell, old knew to as as the inhabitants. of many the nothing gobbling and About four o’clock in morning made for On the except east side is altar, set” beneath inclination “to an that her one any unearthly paddling. she aroused by which the tombs was an of St. are Paula but The and Cave the Rock. had slack at in season egg come a Hastily throwing hissing. By and by he began feel tired. quacking and St. Eustochlum, to her daughter. They thrilled her, instincts the maternal and shoulders the quilt around her He determined jump to out descendants of the on a Gracci were human and touching in with trust and a through the streets Passing narrow she rushed to his shoes, steps again, plunging into her Scipios, but strange to all had and say to Bethlehem to turned come submissively providence she the the church of finally to come we toward fled yard. A jumps He couldn’t the chicken devote turned to paddles. themselves njan to the service of each day, and her In nest every egg Nativity. with bloody turkey in God. hard, brown object the fence They to get one distributed their a wealth to seem over a other hen week than sat longer any a the inn stood where here that It was the the next to steps. He decided to try hand. aided St. Jerome poor, to build with thought compatible would have Joseph, footsore and and Mary weary, that!” yelled Mary but just still, he “Drop that, drop to sit doubled monasteries, and studied the holyscriptures more so no her dignity. Bethlehem. sought Shepards, journey, for Field of the their long after cloths stick him his the at short legs under him and Ann, hurling under him. up in of Speckle’s offspring Most came for “there lodgings’ but was no room him full floated. After while himself bearing down at he felt and In the this upon west wall of a chapel the fluffy white is There twins. two w ere the r of year T THIS seek obliged elsewhere them.” They to season w’ere the barbed wire he neared sinking, but he paddled twice thrice speed tomb of St. Jerome, or as where altar is chickens, black two two pert an world ones, Christian the resting place. The for year, some again. Still and got it pleasanter fence. also was erected above his up resting place. little the reverently to turns honey-combed chalk-hills of Judea are but threw himself to drift, he rested The thief over, Near by is small so once more. known the a room and as Bethlehem of town One innumerable of these with caves. caught Lower turkey wing and lower he sank. Strange and his trousers oratory of St. a Jerome. Here the saint the story recalls lovingly the close by inn, excavations, was Ann, in her odors floated around him. Drowsiness barb. Gaunt Mary his declining spent up a in on years prayer set Savior’s birth the i of as for such shelter beasts used as as a him, loomed before besieged him. Not quilt, much except motley the up and study of the scriptures. yet simple the forth in the could of inn the stables not accommodate. chicken trough. With his head above surface, with but armed Retracing a was now steps the to our entrance the of beautiful language and Joseph Mary were he wrench he freed himself, somehow, rested his bill that desperate of this chapel as of Tombs, on a next we spirit come narrative. In gospel take shelter this in grotto. obliged to prize. substance the gosling didn’t he lost his cool but the altar of the to care. Innocents. Tradition Bethlehem to let over go which the served us Here, amid straw as grabbed the turkey. then Mary Ann with Just Mary Ann Yip out relates that here came a of the the place many view and the far from all for beasts, bedding off. She of peelings dashed them had been and in. Its head mothers of Bethlehem wrung ran hid pan themselves the Lord Christ where was winter’s night, cold assistance, a on It had the been “Peep! peep!” murmured the frantically to from the soldiers coop. of Herod, gosling, but were born. mother, virgin birth to the Mary, gave bobbing and down. overturned. discovered and their children up slain. six about Savior. situated the infant is Bethlehem he’s Simon!” “La!” ejaculated stole Simon, stole Continuing Mary Ann, and “He’s along, shown ran we are a Starting Jerusalem. of south all established beyond miles This is cave Ann Farmer wailed Mary for the shovel. small altar known the chapel as of St. as the Jaffa gate, the by Jerusalem from the where Christ doubt place was hitching his as appeared, trousers. When she had shoveled him Martin Joseph, which out up commemorates the on hilly and rough is Christians journey a the earliest times From over born. the she finished her place where exclamation. St. Joseph - warned grass was awaken that amid road scenes this country have always kept sacred sound familiar smote in dream flee Suddenly to into Egypt. “La! aint that fool Ove» got a a goose no memories reverent mind the in St. Justin, spot. martyr particular Glancing she caught the altar is oil her painting that to swimmin’ in the up, representing ear. an more sense go loving with soul emotions. the fill 100 after and Palestine about born in years quacking glimpse of Simon merrily the flight into Egypt. bucket!” slop a Christ road this Along very the speaks of this and Christ, cave, through rapidly the waddling and “Peep!” replied the gosling, placidly there at Chapel the and Manger. here and in walked, often philosopher writing 'A. Celsus, pagan in the direction of the weeds rusty turning the the in over on grass warm places road the of turns different are The knew of it. D. 150, also emperor with deliciously filled pen. through feeling. corn Passing a doorway, sun a narrow and interesting with associated some 137 A. D., in order to Hadrian, about we’d better “Well, I reckon have the observe round hole Lazily months drifted in the ground, summer a the we of the history in event stirring Christians from it, keep the away after all. for Christmas Ain’t turkey tradition One day and another where, states, by. “that fool miraculous is the a west, the Israel. On of people Adonis there and of statue erected a fowls,” said Farmer losin’ forth of two fountain burst for the goose,” to designate of the as every one came no use use where Solomon was valley, Gihon the worship in idol established cavern. his relieving feelings. From here after Family. figured continually before Martin, Holy him, the enter the we south-east is now the and crowned on Constantine removed The emperor Ann, of the nativity, entirely muttered she where public So devoid “La!” Mary the crypt of golden as in eye. nearby, where of Hinnom, valley the and erected idol the over cave a soft shed did his escapades blissfully quacking and brilliant that Simon the w’atched lamps light a sense seem defeated David King Rephaim, of field the 330 A. D. At different about church various shrines. the hired named him “Simple in the middle of the With gobbling Simon,” and feelings man upon Philistines. The Thief Threw Himseif Over. the then the church has periods since and devout short. of faith, for believe Simon ain’t reverence “I do we corn pen. from King distance short and But rebuilt, enlarged renovated, been a look with approach and wonder all.” Y. Herald. —N. coming of the fool after the such With December upon striped bantams, snappy a two long legged wee the Bethlehem greets well the David’s present structure, eye. find until we chapel of the Magi. little Here the people began to think days of peevish turkeys, and two perpetually with its high hill stands, it sections There different belonging with its a on gold, frankincense, of Moralize. gifts with When to and and the farmers feasts, Christmas to hungry ducks. But when it to came of white clustered houses Greek and Armenian closely the Latin, to wise these from the evil myrrh, the We will not expatiate men east their poultry with upon the look twin goslings there an only over eye was one and towers massive walls its courtyard leading the stone, The to rites. adored the and new-born in Christmas folly of over-indulgence knelt King. and One frosty day markets. when the of them. Of to the different twins course, brightness the the of forth in with looming paved large church is square another is small giftmaking after Christmas. by altar kitchen breathed until Near Martin’s spicy associated Mrs. ornamented together and told other each rich while below is morning side the ruins of the a and sun, stones are on lights with and silken Such the moralizing follows “dark draperies. slouched in. husband her their odors joys, trials and their fears olive trees with its atrium the former valley green grass, w’here columns old chapel the of the of the morning after.”— It is Manger, brown taste looking just been the hopes; “I’ve and but the gosling over the was reaching in vineyards terraces stood. This courtyard basilica and up of thet where the spot Constitution. the Atlanta built “Turkeys drawled. poultry,” he upon yellow sheep of the manger family. He knew are the of hill. summit market the used frequently to is as a the infant Savior, Here stood. wrapt troubles but his he wanted no own, gather the natives sell to where place clothes, swaddling laid. in was As little, Bethlehem. and when he found of happy Charm a QUERY PERTINENT their wares. A genuine carried manger the was to hunting ground of bugs he had it all to marble is where one now Rome, seen a charm himself. He had also little mysterious hang habit to seems Fortress. a A Like Looks the of infant lies image looks wax upon of while a wabbling in it a two chickens at from the town one as over of straw. pallet reflects that fought bug, quietly and this gobbling point is over a this up the church of outside looks like The here from to another Ruth We altar the where and Boaz turn insect and calmly turning his back lived Bethlehem, high with its stone walls. fortress a ornamented richly and draped Jesse where without much loved, and David more reminder and even so as a leads into the door church, little A velvet and silk curtains. Christ, with the that there where The longer existed and of lived, no a son cause three divided into is sections, which golden from lamps What soft feeling above Others rays for quarrelling. of joy might have born. a God was Latins, Greeks the to belonging and with shrine glorious the flood drawing a light sharp bills dig and fight, to but he one as nearer over comes first The section Armenians. of the large r Drawing through we see he near a silver had this broad to and retain. passes town the a one grasp to Greek Basilica. the is Here church the marble floor in set valley covered beneath with olive star his independent, little In happy-go-lucky lovely marble pillars of support two rows of the arch marble is low altar, and shown the and he through and waddled the world, grass, green way trees the divide and roof into nave two the and wonderment shepherds” with the where of awe read field making strange friends, having and upon “the pillars These said to are have aisles. this inscription, pavement appeared to the lowly the “Hie shepherds de angels known feather-breadth only to escapes the the from temple taken of Soloni.on. been Maria Jesus Christus Virgine Christmas night first and the natus the Martin family. himself and on the walls Along traces of are Christ (Here Jesus the est.” them glad tidings born of announced to was Day .dawned and May warm sunny. mosaics. ' ancient friary,) Virgin birth. Leaving the the Savior’s wriggled themselves fairly the Worms had «• of 'ffo'Vr two entrances There leading crossing leaps to “the and are with joy mouth that roadside over your morning, the goslings into as by grotto, staircase the marble yourself shepherds” looks this about one at to a find the of one sacred than he content field and he felt you Sj*ot as more choir the the in Greek the Lord and beholds valley sheep Christ peaceful born. near where the kitchen section was With in the back the squatted on sun church, and the the of the other from impulse slopes irresistible there fall upon grassy turning his head feeding you Suddenly, in an step. upon section, which Latin is known shepherds still and prostiate watching youthful the In knees the as tempting left, spied red and radiance he the your to a of St. Catherine. church the shepherds golden did lamps, flocks in the these of and in their as the round, from great, peeping object a up this hallowed Christ this of of few church time Some of quiet spot The gosling the years ago peace whitish surface. looking you that first Christmas enlarged of Catherine handsomely think and the shepherds night he St. splash! went the field of is was dash, and Near made a Joseph and the sought fitted by Mary shelter when of He where Ruth white surface. of Bsaz, emperor field went up shining the the under where, this her days within Austria. cave, being where he Boaz and glean and fell in however, bit, forth to had that red as accomplished, she birth to struck her. It from this the grotto, gave instinctively with union Descending is he love it was swallowed one reminded mankind. Savior of the delightful Ruth that the catacombs What and ancestors of the in passing. of Bod? with his legs. a out