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IT \viih three (lays before Christmas.
Itedney Burke separated bis dl
miuutlve frame from the seething
crowd of humanity that pressed
along the street and paused before a
plate glass window which above all
others attracted him. This was not
a department store or a candy store or
a bakeshop. Inside there were neither
toys nor sleds nor good things to eat,
but it held those tilings upon which
Itedney Burke had feasted his small
eyes for many days. And now ike
looked, with his whole soul in his
glance —he looked and looked and look
ed. He sniffed the air and imagined
to himself that already he was enjoy
ing the good things within.
For it was a cigar store, a store of
the better class, full of pipes and tobac
co and cigarettes and chewing tobacco
sad everything that ends in smoke.
In the front of the window immedi
ately under the olfactory nerves of Mr.
"WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE FOB
CHRISTMAS? 1 *
Rodney Burke was a pipe—not an ex
pensive one, but one of Just the make
and pattern that suited Mr. Burke. lie
had religiously watched this pipe from
day today, afraid that some other cus
tomer would buy it. But there It still
remained.
"Gee!" exclaimed Mr. Itedney Burke
to himself as he scratched his short red
hair. "Gee, I wisht I had it!"
And the unfortunate part of it all
was that he didn't have a cent. He
searched every poeket and cranny of
his superannuated clothes, from hia
feet, which rested on the ground, to his
hat, which occupied an exalted posi
tion some three feet odd above the
ground, for that which he knew he did
not possess. The expected happened,
for he found nothing.
"Gee!" lie exclaimed again. "If I had
annuder suit, I'd hock this. I gotter
have that pipe; that's what!"
Strolling along the street, at peace
with all the world, came a philanthro
pist. Hedney's critical eye, casting
about for ways and means, noted him
as he came.
"I t'ought he was a stiff," he remark
ed confidentially to some friends a day
or two later, "but I was away off, I
was."
The philanthropist, whose good na
ture, to give the devil his due, was
caused by a remarkably good dinner
which he had just enjoyed—the phi
lanthropist bore down upon Mr. Ited
ney Burke. The latter saw him com
ing.
"Now, what's his game, anyways?"
thought Mr. Burke as he turned back
once more to gaze upon the pipe.
"Hello, small sir!" remarked the
friend of mankind genially. "Merry
Christmas!"
"Aw," thought the small sir to him
self, "what ye givin' us? Why can't
ye leave me alone?"
But he didn't say it. He simply
looked up at the big man with a half
coy, half frightened glance, more par
ticularly to determine whether he
might not be the police department In
disguise.
"Merry Christmas!" he returned, a
bit wistfully as he thought he saw
a possible opening of a pleasant na
ture.
"Well, my boy," continued the man,
"what are you going to have for
Christmas, anyway?"
"Christmas!" returned Itedney, with
(i slight variation from the truth. "We
don't never have nothin' for Christmas.
■»-e don't."
The man smiled a smile of pity.
"Dear me," he remarked, half to him
self, "how true it is that one half of
the world knows not how the other
half lives." Then he raised his voice.
"What would you say, small sir, if I
should buy you some of those toys"—
He stopped as he gazed into the win
dow. "Why, why," he went 011, "I
thought this was a toy store that you
were looking Into!"
"N'aw," returned Itedney. "It's a to
bacco store."
"But—but." continued the man, "you
—you don't smoke tobacco. You cer
tainly ut your age cannot"—
"N'aw," murßMi Burke, "I dou't. 1
-I wasn't ? ninlcf iabout mcseif fj
in'''l;. i thinUin' about mo olii
fun >'• Hi- broke liis pipe hist luont".
an" le» ahi : had none since, an' he's 100
poor i . a minder one. I was tonkin'
«'t tin Gee! If I could git enough
of the suifl together, I wouldn't do a
thing but buy that there one for hiui
me poor ole father."
Tills was said with an air of the
greatest frankness, although Mr. Red
ney Burke laid always considered his
father, as did many others, in the light
of a genteel myth. Still he thought to
himself that if he had a fatiier and if
he himself were worth a few million or
so he might—he didn't commit himself
upon the subject, however, even in his
thoughts—be might blow his father to
a pipe some time. This considerate
sentiment, he reasoned. Justified his re
ply philanthropist.
"Well, well," remarked the latter,
glancing down at the disinterested
specimen Iwfore him, "but what would
you like to have now for Christmas?"
Redney shook his head. "I ain't per
tlcler about meself. If I could git thai
there pi|x?—an'," he added as he scent
ed possibilities heretofore unsusjiected,
"an' a good bit of smokln' tobacco, an'
3ie of them there rubber things to put
it in—say, if I could do that for the old
man—say! An' wouldn't he feel stuck
on hisself! But, gee, wot's de use? 1
can't do It, so I might as well be go
in'."
lie made this last remark because he
knew Intuitively that brevity, which Is
the soul of wit. is also the essential In
charitable enterprises. Good impulses
don't last forever, so he moved off,
shaking liis head as lie went.
The big man looked up and down the
street to see if he was observed, then
he stretched forth his hand and caught
Redney by the arm.
"Here, my boy," lie exclaimed gently
as he shoved a live dollar bill into Mr.
Redney Burke's reluctant grasp—"here,
go and get the pipe for your father and
then go and get something for—for
yourself, and—and have at least one
happy Christmas that you can look
back upon." His eyes glistened a bit
as lie said it, and, to bis credit be it said,
he did not regret the impulse or the do
nation for a full two hours thereafter.
"T'anks," said Mr. Burke, with a bit
of a scrape and a stiff sort of bow
"t'anks from mean' me old man!"
The next day there was a queer for
mation in an unfrequented corner ol
the play yard of the Fourteenth ward
school. This formation resembled more
than anything else an Kskimo hut, but
composed, instead of inanimate ma
terial, of a very animated and interested
crowd of boys gathered around a com
moil center. From the aperture in the
top of this human Kskimo dwelling,
and therefore heightening the illusion,
ascended a column of smoke, and as it
ascended to the skies there came a
voice from within.
"Gee, fellers!" said the voice. "Gee,
but ain't this great?" It was the voice
of Mr. Redney Burke, the votary of my
Lady Nicotine, the center of an admir
ing crowd. lie smoked a pipe—the pipe
of his heurt—and he tilled it from a red
rubber case.
"Just fits in me pants pocket," he ob
served. And as he said it he pulled out
a few dollar bills and exhibited them.
"An' I got four more plunks left!
What d'ye t'ink?" he said.
Later, in the class room, the teacher
lifted her head high in the air and
sniffed.
"Some boy," she remarked severely,
"has been smoking. I want to know
who It is."
She looked—not around the room—but
directly at Mr. Redney Burke. He fair
ly reeked with tobacco, and he knew it.
Under the circumstances, therefore,
he side stepped with alacrity into the
aisle and looked squarely into the
teacher's eyes.
"Me old wo—me mother," he explain
ed glibly—"me mother had a smokin'
Jag on yestiddy, an' I had to stay home
an' till her pipes, an* me elo'es is full
of it. It ain't me; it's her. D'ye see?"
Then lie whipped out a small, new
leather pocketbook with a brand new
penny in it and handed it over. "An' a
merry Christmas to you, Miss Burt
wliistle!" lie remarked.
A Treaiiore Tree.
One of the most famous Christmas
trees in history was erected at Wind
sor castle in the early forties. It was
not so very remarkable for its height,
which was forty feet, but for the fact
that in the aggregate its crop of pres
ents amounted in value to $45,000, or
the value of the product of «J,OOO acres
of forest land.
Wintry Wrlnklm.
Oh. the hapny boy Is Hopping
Down the %11 with his new sled,
While the humble tramp Is chopping
Kindling wood out in the shed.
And the*ruflfled.
Muffled, studied
ChicKlet pecks the frozen corn.
And the golden,
Molden, olden
Brandy's looked for ev'ry morn!
The fragile maid Is skating
On the pond behind the mill;
The sparrow's masticating
Frozen crumbs upon the sill,
And the bawling.
Sprawling, crawling
Infant's wrapped In flannels hot.
While the zeallng,
Ever healing
Gooee grease stands beside the cot.
The suburbanite Is skipping
To his snow becovered lair,
And old Boreas is Hipping
Merry snowtlakes through the nlr.
And the creeping,
Leaping, sleeping
Trolley car hops through the mush,
While the rosy,
Always dozy
Butcher's hoy slops through the Blush.
These wintry scenes I fancy I
As I'm snuggled in my bed,
Concealed so thai you can't seo
E'en the baldness of my head.
And tin. (lashing,
Clashing, sr.'.irhlng
Hailstones rhyme upon my pane.
While I coolly.
Honest, truly.
Dream that summer's here again.
—New York Journal. '
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