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nose was bleedin an a sight and blinking rapid studied blinking kept the tears from oerflowing quite but his spirit of victory deep was drinking he had conquered conquered with a sled in the list twas trial by combat this bit champion of santa ciau3 had bled shed his blood for a staint they said was dead timmy who lived down under th mil with his father patrick james his mother norah ellen and a con stantly increasing brood of brothers and sisters was at eight almost an institution in our town he could so old mr leahy said whistle loike a mavis an th laugh av him is loike wather runnin over whoite stones the ladies of the presbyterian aid society said sometimes and this was usually around christmas time the poor little fellow on other occasions when one of their offspring came home disheveled tousled and tearful from timmys hands they said the little barbarian timmy took things largely as he found them and if apples for instance were not easy to find he hunted for them as for clothes he was a re plica of patrick james for didnt mother norah make most of the fath ers clothes and then remake them for timmy as for the toys of child hood hiswere the odds and ends that the boys of centre street had tired of or broken or those which his ingenuity had toggled up but dont gather the idea that timmy was a pathetic figure he was far from that and his glorious ability to be sufficient unto himself insulated him from sympathy of sympathy timmy would have none and overt acts of hostility were met with the spirit that flamed in the bosom of brian boru on one occasion the superintendent of the methodist sunday school had ejected timmy from a christmas entertainment when it was found that he was the heart and circumstance of a giggle storm which swept a class near where he sat did timmy go home to weep if he did it was later in the day for his next appearance in the public eye was as one of the little people he had tramped a fairy circle in the snow in front of the church and with a mistletoe bough in his hand was capering about in it singing an eldrich song about darby ogill an his coo rosie one of the boys happened to glance out of the window and lost in terest in the christmas entertainment it was all makebelieve and tinsel and talk ayhow he decided so he slid out of the pew crawled down the aisle and slipped out of the door to join timmy two other boys followed and soon the crowd grew untilthe superin tendent realized his entertainment had encountered competition which seri ously threatened its success he stop ped susie brown right in the middle of her song to quote mrs brown and went out to deal with timmy his own son and two other boys he drag ged back into the church and prom ised the three who followed timmy that their fathers will hear about this from this time on timmy and his to everyman the first and most important aim of everyman who desires to succeed should be the same as that of successful business and financial houses the formation of a reserve fund a reserve is ot only invaluable when reverses or emergencies arise but it is a guarantee of strength and promotes selfconfidence the standard bank or canada vn stouffville branch a c burkholder manager i t hill co ltd stouffville successor to todd cook doalors in alsike red glover tinriothy alfalfa and sweet glover highest pricks palt for above seedsl office phone hoi u e todd house 1s9 managing director doings on that christmas day are known to the grownups only in such fragments as the three who followed let drop and what timmy himself told patched together the parents decided there had been a fight there was evidence on elmer smiths bead and timmys face that this conjecture was correct but what did you fight about questioned- mrs smith and right on christmas day too elmer wriggled and swallowed hard a couple of times before replying oh we just got talkin bout santa claus an then we fit an i was gettin th best of it an timmy he squirmed up an tumped me ith a sled now this is what happened elmer had declared there was no santa claus and backed his assertion by saying think i dont know them lean legs of old tippett this was the boys name for a thoroughly detested citi zen who viewed his chestnut trees as private property even if they was covered up in red canton flannel britches elmer swaggered a little jostling the littler boys and then unbosomed himself of an there haint no santa claus neither hes jest a story made up like little red ridin hood an all the rest them tomf k1 stories fo babies an this was an afterthought that stuff of timmys bout darby ogill an his rosie cow thats all tom foolery too timmy never could bring himself to follow prescribed formulas in fighting when he decided it was time to fight he dispensed with chips on the shoul der lines drawn for an opponent to step across and dares and double dares he just fought on this oc casion elmer outweighed him about twenty pounds he was forced to ad mit to himself that he had a job on his hands he was down most of the time with elmer on top and had it not been for a sled which seemed wafted to his hand by the friendly little people when he finally did scramble to his feet it is likely that santa claus champion would have been defeated as it was elmer ad mitted he had been mistaken both about the old saint and darby ogills cow that evening old mr leahy drop ped in on timmys folks with a few bits av things for the childer to him he was never counted as a regular grownup for the heart of a boy still lived in his bosom timmy told the story of the fight and its cause the true story when he left he said to timmys mother norah let the bye go wid me part way home together they started with the snow squeaking and growling under their feet and the stars glinting in the high sky timmy tis a harrd task yeve set an auld man but we cant have ye fightin all over the village wid every loosetongued lad that dont see things as you do an i must tell ye that fer thim that doni belave in christmastido theres no santa claus but fer thim that do belave there is wan an always will be wan buthe dont come skyhootin behind deers and sick loike he lives in the hearts av thim thatll take him fer a tinint ramember that lad he lives in the hearts av them thatll give him room an tis only a bit he needs the following interesting carol is preserved in poor robins almanac for 1695 it is of interest as throwing light on the material side of the old- ttme christmas celebrations minced pies are referred to it will be noticed a- term never heard nowadays and instead of our plum- pudding there is plum porridge a not so attractive dish one would think tho carol reveals too that the material for christmas decorations was fuller in the old days including holly ivy bay rosemary and lawrel now thricewelcome christmas which brings us good cheer minced pies and plum porridge good ale and strong beer with pig goose and capon the best that may be so well doth the weather and our stomachs agree observe how the chimney do smoak all about the cooks are providing for dinner no doubt- but those on whose tables no victuals appear 0 may they keep lent all the rest of the year with holly and ivy so green and so gay we deck up our houses as fresh as the day with bays and iosemary and lawrel complcat and everyone now is a king in con ceit but as for curmudgeons who will not be free 1 wish they may die on the three- legged tree it is of interest to learn that tho wellknown and oftused couplet christmas conies but once a year and when it comes it brings good cheer originally appeared in a mock christmas play of the fifteenth cen tury here are tho lines bounce- buckram velvets dear christmas comes but once a year and when it comes it brings good cheer larger mills more quaker flour quaker floor itinqujkeroafso the growing popularity of quaker flour has necessitated additions to the peterborough mill that increase its output by more than 40 the quaker mill is now prepared to meet all 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kneel at midnight- if the children believe they do they must and as for that saint who fares abroad under no stars but those of christmas eve this will be a blank planet when no ear listens for the rustle of his pack in the chimney let no father fool himself with the thought that the world has changed there are children in windsor and warsaw in melbourne andin mon treal who do not know about the war but who know about christmas eve and what happens in its still and holy hours so in the name of that childhood which keeps alive the faith let no socalled head of any house dare to dodge an inquiry today or flee before the whirlwind of excited youth her christmas shopping early she says shes bound to do but early the day before no doubt is about the way it will turn out is that the way with you when the turkeys on the table and the mince pies on the way an my plate is filled with fixins that belong to christmas day i fergit im over eighty an about my rheumatiz an it seems to me- that livin 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