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HOWARD & CO. -I CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1909. ; Christinas With ; ; The Pickwickians; • • "?"0 chronicler of Christmas tlo |%J ings Ims done it inimitably I as Dickon:'., and nowhere lias / Dick"! described tliem hel ler than in the "Pickwick Papers." One mljn'h l reed the paragraph relating to the obscrvim <« of the holiday half a hund:'! ;1 limes and mil become weary The (Jliri- unas splrb i>- e-. e; v-w!i< ve evident in the chapters tie 1 -' >!ed t<> the holiday making. From the be •inning when the hero, hi- three fiie!!il.- and Ids faithful • i-\ ri 111 N-irl for Din;:!'-,.' Dell, to the hour <;f their return there is Christmas in every sentence: As brisk as bei , If not altogether a.» light as fairies, did the four Pickwickians assemble on the morning of the £2d day of December In the year of grace in which these their faithfully recorded ad ventures were undertaken and accom plished. Christmas was close at hand In all his bluff and hearty honesty. It was the season of hospitality, merriment and open heartedness. The old year was pre paring. like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him and amid the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away. Oay and merry was the time, and right gay and merry were at least four of the numerous hearts that were gladdened by Its coming. After traveling through a wide and open country where "the wheels skim over the hard and frosty ground," slow ing up as they draw near a country, town, where the horses are changed,; then again "dashing along the open: road, with the fresh air blowing in; their faces and gladdening their very; hearts within them," they arrive at; Dlngley Dell, where we are Introduced: to that famous personage, the fat boy.: He is an old acquaintance of Mr. Pick wick, but to Sain Weller his face is: strange. To follow this first meeting: : Having given this direction and settled i with the coachman, Mr. Pickwick and his three friends struck Into the footpath: across the fields and wulked briskly away, i leaving Mr. Weller and the fat hoy con-; fronted together for the first time. Sam looked at the fat boy with great aston ishment, but without saying a word, and MR. PICKWICK WENT SLOWLY AND GRAVELY DOWN THE SLIDE WITH HIS FEET ABOUT A YARD APART. began to stow the tilings rapidly away in the cart, wjiile the fat hoy stood quiot ly by and ic":n.d to think it a very in teresting sort of thing to seo Mr. Weiier working li.. himself. The conversation of these two char acters is too !:>ug to reprint here, hut not too much M> to peruse with the greatest interest. We must pass over the story of the wedding, which was the day before Christina-! event at Dingley De!l, at which Mr. Pickwick distinguished himself by a felicitous speech, and get to the story of the dance. Dickens' description of the oitl: Sitting room is a gem: The best sitting room at Manor Farm was a good, long, dark paneled room, with a high chimney piece and a capacious chimney, up which you could have driven one of tke new intent cabs, wheels and all. At tlio upper end of the room, seated In a shady bower of holly and ever greens. were the two best fiddlers and the only harp in Alugglelon. In all sorts of recesses and on all kinds of brackets stood massive old silver candlesticks with four branches each. The carpet was up. the candles burned bright, the fire blazed and crackled 011 the hearth, and merry voices and light hearted laughter rang through the room. If any of the old English yeomen had turned into fairies when, they died, it was just the place in which they would have held their levels. After the dance was over, Mr. Pick wick having acquitted himself with great credit, t':.> reader is told about the doings in lhe famous old kitchen. Here hung the mistletoe and did its mission well in adding to the jollity or the occasion. The artist whose pic tures appear on his pages has done e.\ eel lent justice to Dickens' text: From the center of the celling of this kitchen old Wardle lmd just suspended with his own hands a huge branch of mistletoe, and this same branch of mis tletoo instantaneously gave rise to a scene of general and most delightful struggling ai d confusion, in the midst of which Mr. Pickwick. with a gallantry which would have done honor to a de scendant of Lady Tollinglower herself, took the old lady by the hand, led her be neath the mystic branch and saluted her In all courtesy and decorum. * * * Ward!? stood with his back to the tire, surveying the whole scene with the ut:no3t satisfac tion, and the fat hoy took the opportuni ty of appropriating to his own t:se and summarily devouring a particularly line mince pio that had been carefully put by for somebody else. * * * It was a pieasar' thing to see Mr. Tick wick In the cento of the group, now pull ed this way and then that and first kiss ed on the chin and then on the nose and then on the spectacles, and to hear the peals of laughter which were raised on every sido. Finally we come to Christmas day, which was cold and cheerful and good "skaiting" weather. The party all went to a "pretty I urge sheet <>f 1e«," whore Mr. Winkle, having assumed the airs of a man who could "skalt' and having shown his ignorance there of, was smartly reproved by Mr. Pick wick. Meanwhile, "Mr. Weller and the fat boy having by their joint efforts cutout n slide," all hands participated Says the chronicler of the day's sport It was tho :no.-;t Intensely Interesting thing to observe Ihe manner in which Mr. Pickwick performed his share in th•: ceremony—to watch the torture of anx lot v. 11' i . hl< i 1 lie viewed the peiToa he hind i-aiid'i upon him at the imminent hazard of tripping hl'n up, to see lilii grndu.-'ly •• d the J l inful force whlt'i ho hod put on at llr.st ;■ rid turn slowly oa He slide, v ith his face toward the pol fro 1 which he had started, ti conteiT:' late,t! ■■ \ l:\vfi 1 smile which rnan tl .1 o'i I ■ fact! v.hen he Had accomplish ed (lie dis-.mue and the «>;i:-3rnofs wltii tvhicli 11r tarncd around when ha had done so : ad ran after Ids pre k-cersor, his bl •■lt 'eir tripping pleasantly through \ho sno>.'. and his eyes beaming clicerfid nesH and r.l i'lness through his spectacles, and when he was knocked down, which happened upon the average every third round, it was the most invigorating sight that can possibly be Imagined to behold him gather up his hat, gloves and hand kerchief with a glowing countenance and resume his station In the rank with an ardor and enthusiasm which nothing could abate. Mr. Pickwick unfortunately breaks through the ice and gets a good wet ting, but, being taken on a smart run to the house, put to bed and given un limited quantities of hot punch, flnda himself none the worse next morning, when the parly departs from Dlngley Dell. Thus does Dickens tell us of one o say that he clinks his chains of stole 1 doubloons. —Washington Star. A Christmas Sentiment. However sincere we may IK> in ou: efforts to spread Christmas cheer, orr charity Is none the less a testimony to our sense of the fact that peace an I good will have not come upon the earth. Poverty and wretchedness are not to be offset by yenrly gifts of bas kets of food and outgrown clothes. We ought to make the spasmodic kindliness of Christmas one of the constant forces of our Industrial world. Equality and fraternity are born not of charity, but of justice. Instead of commercializing Chris t n>ns ve oirght t" 1 htb" , nas:'e eo»*i merclallsm. —New Y >r\ Mall. 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