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Ds f 54 row tired of telling them the story | lie for many long years to come. | How Marguerite loved her little | remembered them later when he re-| fingers and from the inanimate piecc | "I shall have good news THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 194/ was i ---------------- en omin SE ------------------ trees seemed Etienne lovelier| He followed her to the convent Never had the wine-like October air | the divided attention and kindlier by ever. Even where she sought refuge with the seemed so in ting, never did| back within the carved the winter and kin- | gentle nuns, and had begged to be ite. the stars so amusingly, and| Ang today if you will kno ing 3 i allowed to see her. ' even the trees seemed to be gossiD- | the door of the little white "No. Monsieur Chauvin, believe | then again: ing with the breeze. . | house near the church under me when I tell you that if you see i Etienne walked around to the kit- | elm, and tell Father ¢ her now you will undo all that we » cheen door, his spirits a little lower | mote successor that you have hea are trying to do for you. Be pati- 3 by now. He was tired and it was| the story of the wooden Che ent, return to your farm and pray| N y hard to keep oneself in ecs- | child he will take you into the ch 1G the friendly atmosphere. --pray for her. When she is well Bn over something that had no| and in the vestry unlock an ane Summer came in with a passion | again she will want you and seek| Pere Choquette who once over-| fact to bolster it up. Perhaps Mary | cupboard and show you the ate eagerness when eventually it| you," said the nun to whom he had heard him did not correct him, but| had not really nek Perhaps he | Babe, painted now in flesh tints did come. The heat i appealed. with wet ey: turned and went | was all imagination. Perhaps-- blue eyes and pink lips, that Efi over the river that flowed so near 1 will leave her with you" he|away leaving Etienne to his inspir-| 5. pushed open the kitchen door, | carved from the log, still rep rob- | to the house, in a sickering flicker | promised eagerly, "if you will only| ed work. and there behind the carved cradle,{ its carved cradle. There ing glaze that Marguerite learned to| let me speak to her." But for alll wp, the had emer- | where he had left it, near the hearth | descendants of Etienne by fear and to hate. The grass tuned her gent etiess the_uwn was adam- ged ie Ba the and lay | stood a row of tall candles, burning guctite Chauvin in the courti®y Flow ellow and even the|ant an a at Rticune cevild ho| within the cradle ready to be set| brightly. Amazed, puzzled, he cross-|a he } oe of e gin chow lank lL. was appea to t e Dis Yarh ig © up before thie altar church | ed the floor and ed into it, These Rupe a A chosen ath orbidding. ~The s died | Bishop, putting 3 iil dors | 3 Christmas time for the adoration | was a child there, but not the little | to feck the wooden he. | shtivelling up in the heat, | around Etienne's shaking shoulders: of the habitants and the delight of | wooden Christ he had left. This] ments of Tue tnen ang Colcy and poor Marguerite grew pale and | blessed him and sent him back up the children, September had crept |one was wrapped in woolen things, ho ary A, ce And it vp listless as July wet on its way, | river. asked 4 d suined | 10 October. And when there was no and the little pink face sweeter still : lh teh wi hen te Nativhy When she was so tired, » yan The sun- ask d Sam, ps FR ily longer any roughness to no | than the fact of the little Christ and tured hy And | i daee pid and so ill with longing for Paris, | harvest greete me. Boppy. extra touch that could add beauty | the curved fingers that lay outsi idles of the twentieth dear, gay Paris and the gentle Seine. | As autumn came A ore often | 10 the finest of all his york, Eti- | the coverlet were creased with little a3 the candles of th § ie Sd oy yi Sa "he iy) kK ~~ it Ay ig oy ray | PRS, Went again 10 the linle church | folds of real flesh, = Suddent i 3 before Pig And out gn Ey The Listeria. Pri were or Marririte Nod for a a mile away lo pray. " Tite Lag pg] tories F. Yond the church are the y : fren harder that hers within doors. And Se day, gazing at the henefic. wiilermoon tage. ile igh uttered broke the startled silence. Where tymed Jo dus ate Whe £. ie di i tienne with the artistic soul, | ent Virgin carved in wo y one of the | er fingers that fashi { th eelder Chauvin, a| met her, in a hp ng Eviews 1 saw things all going wrong, ay kindly men who had learn- | feet of the gentle Virgin, Time he Then Jot Bam he IO She of the Chsiel and the gentle nge delard St. Denis, who | exciteme e great sailing ves- | could do nothing to set them right. | ed at Cap Tourmente in Laval's| had forgotten in his ecstasy, but fin | Sop, "lo Tod all merry again and | of the little mother, Ma pted a seigneury on the pushed her way against| There came a morning when the | school, the art of making things of ally in loneliness the hot tears fropp slipped y arms under the baby in | Chauvin, who laid the living' Madon the St. Lawrence and who kling and restless waters of | quarrel was more bitter than any be- | beauty for the church, Etienne had | ed upon his folded hands He looke( : the cradle and forgetting to hush its | wiih ; ¥ ns in her painted was ing for men of good old blue St. Lawrence. Marguerite, | fore. Etienne, sore of heart, had fled | aid him, he would make for her a|up again at the tender face in th S erate dud geting. within the carved cradle : :ries she thrust it into Etienne's as- To i' and soft veil, over a cra tock to farm the land. Etienne | 'caning over the side, could see his | in his canoe, alone, up the river, to| beautiful Christ Child. The idea dusk through the blur upon his e¥¢ | onished grasp. Beyond Marguerite, fitholds a little Christ child, all sed the veiled ridicule in offerin: | "nxious face and shining black eyes | hide his aching heart, obsessed Etienne. He labored day and--Mon Dieu--could he believe i une tw The kindly and satisfied ged in the prettiest of baby him, the dreamer and artist, the lif | 'n the little vessel which had come| "Why; oh why, did I come" had | after day in the little kitchen of hic | did she smile? He blinked rapid! ug Pig a Cn Mugla 4d In and the French children | of a farmer in the new country, whic' | it to where the great ship lay at | wailed poor Marguerite. "It is so| home upon the fashioning of r [Out the blur came back and i I ) i a J ! » ) } AE suddenly he understood something of i. to kneel before the Nativity | had scarcely yet yielded its secret | nchor. far away from home and I am sc | sradle and child of beauty and suc' he Virgin smiled. Peace AM unde isc A of Seigneur St. Denis. y in the scented air while | to the explorers. After their marriage in the ca- | unhappy--I think I hate you," she hac | delicacy as he had never believe tanding and confidence oe Jo vhat had happened. worn beads slip through their th you now lies the future'! hedral, they det. off in Etienne's | said bitterly, as Etienne tried to hush! himself capable. It was a beauti- | 'is hungry soul while she smiled an e e "Wi 5 : . " The reverence and the ad- nid t ncle as he bade him fare- | canoe for their little home, thirty | her tirade. On this unhappy epi-| ful piece of wood that he reserve | Ne seemed to be telling him to go Dear Pere Choquette came all the seem to make the Christmas | well, "Forget your useless wood | miles up the river, Their dower | sode he pondered, hurt and puzzled. | for the child itself. When the cradl | ome He rose to his feet so elated. | way to Quebec for me, Etienne," said he ties all the merrier because | carving," Etienne, and apply, your- | from the paternal government, sup- | From his shelter beneath the river | with its exquisitely carved sides ricl | © revived, that the flash came back Marguerite, sharing one arm with ) ry yremember that it is the birth- | self, as - your father would "have | plies for the larder, a cow or two|bank where he had beached his|ly designed rockers and canopy wa » his black Norman eyes and the | Gtienne Junior, "and brought me ai Tre Y of the little Christ child, and lone, to making your farm pay." a ham Oa 3 i i b i home to surprise you, anc and a pig were to follow later. The | canoe he saw a little fleet of canoes | complete, he fell to work upon th | '°P lightened as he turned eagerly | the way 4 and . grandpere never t Etienne was not destined to| resent was for themselves alone. [sweep swiftly down the st-cam. He| Child, Faith lent cunning to hi | "Om the church. the daring seigueur helped ho Oh EN H soon," " Rh ABERDE OTEL the first Christmas that little | 3ttangel yenough the young artist | home and how deft her fingers were | turned in the evening to his desert- | of wood emerged a baby, all tende: | he assured himself. "Marguerite | longed for Jou and was 100 DIOU. 17 Wee §3nd Se. sew 3th Ave. inch girls knelt in adoration be | calling wp all his reserves of grit, | making it beautifull Within it |ed home and learned that the party | curves and softness with curlin® | will come back to me. I know it. 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