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u . A KR nacer threw up his fine head and shook all the bells on #3 his harness. There was the old g jn his changed bells even if 1a nce Sawa id easily down e hid ted his head you know, Lye, at the days wide do. Fd this half hour," said he, N da a hy finish the story hat of course 1 'but you would- Santa, to Santa. with the storp® "Tt séems to me th could only talk with us folks, people, for an hour, midnight," The Strange Hum "An hour, my, We'd never Questions. we had. saved sp pra Perhaps they Jet us ra Ase have till daybreak because we belong At any rate, let's go on that The child nodded, and settled him- self more contforiably to listen. The Reindeer continued: "My mate and I had caten all the moss in one place and were thinking of looking further for a mew spot, when we first heard it. It was a said you Christmas said the child. would heer get through fear in our beautiful snow country, because Santa has magic all around it. fear at this nearer. Brown So we felt no sound coming slowly TROIS Y n-™ 7X Beooters, Tricycles DT TT Te Te The Wi th The WW WE Te Wo We We 'Hendersons Toyland Is Open Come and bring the kiddies The most 'wonderful collec- tion of play things and toys conceivable to delight the kiddies. "owas the Night Before Christmas" Fill the Kiddies' Stockings With Gifts Selected From oyland Electric Trains, Mechanical Trains all sizes, Automobiles and Sleighs, Waggons and and Billy Busses, Garages and Tink r Toys, Pianos and Gi-mo- phones, Rockin a bt orses, ihe dergarten Sets, Black B.: WW oa ? Cars and Busses, Trucks ad Tractors, Steam Engines, Sewing Machines, Moving Pic- ture Machines, 'Magic Lan- terns, Stuffed Animals, [.aun- dry Sets, Telephones, Drums and Trumpete eet C low hum like a very large and far, far away. ae have Inset, wd cled "M t wid it sounded. |i amt Ata for already our nett that po: fb) a] t, = Dancin ca Aurora "We listened ago soon bi cated the direction. oar peared over the Het like a LE hird i wih pov motion in its ew to a roar - it ge Suan turned to the shelter of ove SNOW- Hen brave branches to to wat st now, we shot being st ou pr couldn't | invaded, and nothing ag ever harm us. The Tornado Bird "We called it the Tornado Bird because of its tremendous roar, and watched with much interest as it cir- overhead and then slowly flew to earth on the leyel reich of snow in front of Santa's e. "Then a very strange thing hap- pened. The roar died away, and out of the center of the bird, a fur clad n st carrying a heavy bag. nr came hurrying out to meet him and took the bag, ; "'Oh dear bi said my mate, 'I shall never be a to wait till Christ- mas Eve to find out all about that! I'm Jone fairly -quivering with curi- osity "Well, let's go see it," I said, Reindeers Have Dignity "We rambled over, in the snow, nibbling at moss as we went, sa as not to appear too eager. Sometimes we remember our dignity. It didn't seem to be a bird at all, now that it was down on the ground. It didn't smell like a bird to start with, nor have any feathers, "Santa laughed when he came over with the man and found us sniffing at the bird's wings. "Here's Thunder and Dash, he said to the man, 'and oh! the hard uestions they'll be asking Christmas ve. They each save up one ques- tion till just before we start out with the sleigh. "'One year, I could answer easily enough, Thunder was disturbed over my name Santa Claus, because claws as she knew them didn't fit me at all. It was a corruption of Saint Nickolas, I. explained, though why they ever thought I bore an resemblance to a Saint I couldn't tell, Thunder's Wonder "The next year the reindeer all wanted to know what made the Gas- oline Pump work, and that was a hard one to answer, But I can al- ways fall back on my magic when I am cornered; so they werc quite sat- isfied.' "Thunder nudged me, She wrinkled her nostrils J glanced toward the shed at the back of the house, 'Yes,' I said, 'the Bird does smell just like Gasoline Pump!' "All this while the man was busy unloading bags from the Tornado Bird, Santa asked ys to help carry them to the house. They were bags of the usual Christmas letters, he said, from children all over the world. They had arrived very early on ac- count of the flying ship. "'I never saw. a ship like that' whispered Thunder to me. You see, we have been every where in the world with Santa and we had pever seen a ship like that, Ship Rises "But still if Santa said it was a fly- ing ship, that would be all right, we knew, Mie i+ go never told us a lie, though d take refuge in say- ing things were magic when he couldn't explain something. "Later when the Bird's master had had a good dinner with Santas, he climbed in, on a sort of seat, like the kind in our big sleigh, and then he moved some sticks, and then the roar. started again. We dashed off to one side to watch and after shid- ing along on the ground a ways, the bird rose in the ais, soaring all the time, "Higher and higher it sailed till it was just a tiny spot and finally it was lost in the Dancing Flames. "Santa called us, 'Another year, he said, 'I'll be taking all the chil- dren's toys to them in just such a flyin "We shook all our bells to say no,-- too many years have the children counted on Santa Claus and his rein- deers, we knew." "Did ne carry out his threat?" asked the child. The reindeer shook his bells again. "Oh, he really couldn't go in a hr ing ship because ours is the only sleigh that could carry all the chil- drev's toys. You see he made dis- appearing bags for the toys long ago, when he peeded room. And when he puts one in the back of the sleigh it just disappears until he is ready for it. So tiere is plenty of room for the next bag. Wat Makes It Go? "Thuad-r said if she asked Santa what made the Tornado .Bird go, he 7 pwould say it was magic, and that DOLLS, G/ MES. TEDDIES, DOLL CARRIAGES, BEDS, CRADLES, TRUNKS, BUI! DING and PICTURE BLOCKS PICT URE BOOKS, STORY BCOKS, FIRE STATIONS WITH FIRE ENGINES, Lots and Lots of Other Things in 1oyland couldn't be 80, because earth people | cannot use magic. But that seemed the most important guestion to ask and what do you think Santa said?" "What did he say?" h Wel, he scratéhed his head as e does when he is trying to head an answer and he said it fA noise that made it go! His eyes twinkled when he said it, and when Thunder asked what made Tornado Bird smell like Gasoline Pump, he said we would have to hurry and go, because it took ever so much longer oe ul lived in apartments, to get the toys delivered, One Question a Year We all danced nd and "sound music with < our in our joy at starting off for another Christ- mas. "Did Thunder ever find out about the noise in the Tornado Bird?" ship. How will you like that?' | , \ "vine "All Christmas graphs Taken on oF Before December 22 Will Be Finished Before Christmas CAMPBELL'S STUDIO CHRISTMAS FOR ADULTS By Mary Graham Bonner There wasn't a si child in the family now and Christmas, they oi agreed, was a time for children, At any rate they all said that. They had scattered as. families sometimes do, and those left in" the town were two older families. Yes, |: it was quite true, There at a single child in the family had nieces and he family pons nd Y | ren they knew and were fond of to whom they would give presents, They would give nice presents, too, They themselves would 'be sensible. They would not give bho to each other, They were grown-up. Why should they go in for someth that was distinctly a possession of childhood? They would have Christmas dinner together. That they had finally de. cided they could not forego, Oh, the other ruling was very sensible, 8 they all agreed, but--well, it was uite sensible. Children longed to vr Big Christmas to children, Let it remain that way, The family who lived down by the old mill were having the Christmas nd | Present time when the packages were diner. The other family were com- Ling to. it were going to bring the mince pié¥ and the hm puddings their part of the Christmas feast. |" he wanted to do something about ristmas dinner--there wasn't ay spect reason for it but they my to do something, The table was set the night before, ere. wasn't much to do Christmas morning, Later they would go to thareh apd join in singing the Christ- mas hymns; That would be suitable 'to the day--to the holiday, holy day, of their resolves, do any different "I think," one of them said whl every present had been open: Spencd, 1 ple, thoughtfal little gifts and ¢ prises, t Christmas should be ery ene. No one is too old to And how proudly they said their friends as they met church: "You must come in and see presents. We got lovely i what we wanted!" Eats members of the family down by "the mill telephoned the other family and asked them to come down earl "1 just fixed up one or two little things," said the one who tele phoned, a little shyly, and to her own family she said the 'same, They came. Every one gathered about the old table that had been brought out every Christmas, It was a shaky old table, but it somehow seemed to be a part of Christmas. And in no time it was covered with ifts, Every one had surreptitious! een fixing up little presents for eac other, And the table groaned under its weight of packages tied with gay old ribbons and tissue paper as of yore, "But we agreed we wouldn't any Christmas presents to each this year," they murmured from _--. to time, "We said we wouidn't have a Christmas celebration now that we were all grown up. od "Christmas," we said, "was entirely a day for children." Yes, so they had said. But so deep- ly was the Christmas celebration around the shaky old table, before the big fireplace, rooted in the heart of each that they couldn't, in spite +. But there was a time in between =a time 'before when the children had had' their presents--while still they were children, before they had grown up or gone away, That time be curiously, outstandingly empty, No-one talked about it, No one sald a word, But none of them could quite bear to think of that Christmas opened, when there was curious, eager excitment and pleasure, delight iin one's own gifts and in the gifts of others, No one said a word, No one knew what each other was thinking, But early that morning one of the -- plete Plant equipped with most modern machinery and are now of Oshawa the best service ob- tainable Phone. 788-789 and Our Representative Will Call 8 We have now inst:lled a com= in a position to give the people Dresses, Suits, Curtains and Rugs cleaned and returned to you odorless. 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