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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<!
the merriest Chrlstmases that a reader
could desire. There Is no touch of sat'-
ness In the chronicle, and all that one
could wish for Is that the story were
longer. Long live the tale, and lonj,
may we enjoy Christmas with tho
Pickwickians!
LONG WALK FOR SANTA.
Tree Burned, Father Goes Eight Milei
For New Toys.
Gifts intended for his eight children
being destroyed when his lighting of
the Christmas tree, just before mid
night, caused a fire which damaged
his home In Cleveland, Alfred Ham
mermeister trudged eight miles through
snow before he could ro«" ■» u »toi«.
keeper and gather another supply of
presents so that the children's faith iii
Santa Clans might not be lost.
The children were asleep when Mr.
'and Mrs. Ilammermeister completed
decoraiii:g the tree. The father de
cided to light the candles as a test.
They burned; so did the cotton snow
balls. The blaze awakened the chil
dren. "S vnty here?" they piped. "Is
it mornin'V" The parents gathered
them 111 their arms and rush d to th'"
street. l'i"Mnon brought out a lot of
' fire ruined presents from the house.
"' : ;inty been and gone and our things
I is burned up!" the children cried.
Ilanimerineister began his weary
search for an open store. He em
ployed the infrequent street cars for
long stretches, but trudged mile after
mile in fruitless search. Finally he
routed a storekeeper from Ids bed and.
burdening himself with a new supply,
trudged home to turn sorrow into joy
Hunting Christmas Ghosts.
Ghost hunting bids fair to become
the ruling passion of Washington so
ciety. The fortunate owners of .
peaked house, roped with ivy and
densely surrounded by trees, are issti
ing cards for a Christmas specter hunt
The Christmas ghost hunt is Imported
from England. where the houses are
ancient enough to harbor specters who
were there before William the Con
queror. The comparative newness of
this country leads some to predict thai
the fad over here will fail. There are
exceptions, however, for even in Wash
ington there is one of the treasure
guarding ghosts—an out and out buce.-
neer of the Spanish main variety, wit!,
cocked hat, gold lace, ruffles, high yel
low boots, red jacket and an odor of
antiquity. Those acquainted with hir>
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.
Are You This Man?
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We are looking for just ONE big, man of business
ability in this county to act as our special representative, to look
after our present customers and to add new ones.
To the man we have a mighty good proposition to make—
pleasant employment at profitable wages which will be paid every
week. But we must have a real worker, a man who knows how to
work and who iikcs to work because in so doing he is benefitting
himself. If you are this kind of a man, write us at once tor com
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