"I'LL SAY THANK YOU. VERY MUCH"

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21970, 19 December 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)

"I'LL SAY THANK YOU. VERY MUCH"

On Christmas morning about o'clock I will get up and see what i in my stocking and then I wiU.«»™ to say "thank you" to Father CW»* mas. I will play all morning w»° my toys. I'll be happy all «£ Then comes dinner time, l" "V duck, Christmas pudding and truw After dinner we will go down the Waitohi river for a swim. --EVA INCH ta£g .gfc

beyond the fields and where once David lived. Timoleon had not been alone on his journey—the three old shepherds had gone, too, silent and purposeful. And now they had come to Bethlehem and even to the very inn, in whose stable they would find the wondrous Babe. They crossed the inn-yard silently, but very happily. The stable was a small one, but to Timoleon it seemed the most wonderful place in the world. As he followed his companions in, he felt a great wave of joy and happiness surge over him. There in the manger was lying a tiny, tiny baby with such pure, serene eyes. Beside the manger sat a woman with the happiest face Timoleon had ever seen. And Timoleon and his three shepherds knelt down before the manger as they would have before the King himself. As Timoleon knelt there, he bent his head and said a prayer and as he did so, he prayed for his little sister. The little sister who was so ill. The baby never moved; but the mother watched them as they knelt and her face grew radiant. Timoleon rose with a feeling that his sister would be better and as he rose, he brought from out of his cloak, the little model sheep he had carved for his sister. He laid it in the manger without a word and turning, went from the stable. All that night he watched his sheep with a light heart. With the morning he repaired to the littlo shelter where the angels had come the night before and there he found a message awaiting him. Timoleon had no need of his news. He knew that his little sister was well. —'MATE CACTUS, 26 Falsgrave street, Waltham, S.I. Why did the nutmeg grater grate (her)? Because the egg-beater beat (her). —JUDITH MARSH.