A 40-YEAR VIGIL
Every Christmas Day for forty years a woman who Jives in a cottage on one of th© Glamorgan, hills lias sat down to her dinner alone, with a plat© sot for another opposite her. She was married in May, 1880, to a sailor, who two mouths after their wedding left Cardiff in a ship which was later given up, as lost. He had promised her that lie would he hack for Christmas, and urged tier to spare nothing in tho way of food for their first Christmas dinner together. Christmas came, bub no husband, yet she omitted nothing in her preparations for the dinner; and she placed hi© plate ready for him at the table so that he might see that ho was expected. Each succeeding Christmas she has remembered his words, and never fails to put his plate on th© table in cas© h© comes home. And she will, she saye, do so to th© ©nd of tho chapter.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 24 March 1921, Page 2
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163A 40-YEAR VIGIL Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 24 March 1921, Page 2
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