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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Harper's Young People, December 20, 1881 - An Illustrated Weekly - -Author: Various - -Release Date: November 24, 2015 [EBook #50545] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, DEC 20, 1881 *** - - - - -Produced by Annie R. McGuire - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#SHAMRUCK_OR_THE_CHRISTMAS_PANNIERS">SHAMRUCK; OR, THE CHRISTMAS PANNIERS.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#MISTRESS_SANTA_CLAUS">MISTRESS SANTA CLAUS.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#A_PERFECT_CHRISTMAS">A PERFECT CHRISTMAS.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_MAGIC_CLOCK">THE MAGIC CLOCK;</a></td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 800px;"> -<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="800" height="307" alt="HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE" /> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Vol</span>. III.—<span class="smcap">No</span>. 112.</td><td align="center"><span class="smcap">Published by</span> HARPER & BROTHERS, <span class="smcap">New York</span>.</td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">price four cents</span>.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Tuesday, December 20, 1881.</td><td align="center">Copyright, 1881, by <span class="smcap">Harper & Brothers</span>.</td><td align="right">$1.50 per Year, in Advance.</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 679px;"><a name="SHAMRUCK_OR_THE_CHRISTMAS_PANNIERS" id="SHAMRUCK_OR_THE_CHRISTMAS_PANNIERS"></a> -<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="679" height="700" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"'YES,' HE SAID, 'I DO WANT A NEW PAIR.'"</span> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Notice</span>.—<i>The Serial Story, Post-office Box, and Exchanges, omitted -from our Christmas Number, will be resumed next week.</i></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>, 4 cents a week; $1.50 per year.</p></blockquote> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>SHAMRUCK; OR, THE CHRISTMAS PANNIERS.</h2> - -<h3>BY FRANK R. STOCKTON.</h3> - -<p>There was once a gloomy old giant named Shamruck. His castle was on a -hill not far from a great city, in which dwelt the King of the country. -Everybody knew Shamruck. He was not a dangerous giant, and no one feared -him; but it may also be said that he never cared to do any one the -slightest service. About Christmas-time Shamruck always seemed more -quiet and melancholy than usual, and more anxious to be alone. Nothing -could ever induce him to remain in his castle during the holiday-time. -He did not wish to see nor hear the happiness and gayety of the people, -and always went away a day or two before Christmas, and did not return -until all the festivities were over.</p> - -<p>At the time of this story, Christmas was drawing near, and the King had -been thinking a great deal about Shamruck. It disturbed him that any one -in his kingdom, especially the very largest person in it, should not be -cheerful and happy at the joyous Christmas-time. He therefore determined -to make a grand effort to induce Shamruck to stay at home and join in -the general festivities. "If he does it once, he will do it always," -said the old King to himself. "He hasn't the least idea how happy we -are. I will go and see him myself."</p> - -<p>The way up the hill to Shamruck's castle was very steep and rugged, and -so the court engineers made a road up to the castle door, and along this -road the sixteen royal piebald horses easily drew the royal carriage. -The King went in to see Shamruck. He had a long talk with him, but it -was of no use. The giant would not consent to remain in the neighborhood -during Christmas. He was not even willing to stay long enough for any -one to wish him "Merry Christmas." "If I did that," said the grim old -fellow, "I wouldn't go away at all."</p> - -<p>Quite disappointed, the King came out, and rode back to his palace. But -this monarch did not give up his plan. He thought that although he had -not succeeded, some other person might; and so he ordered a proclamation -to be made that whoever should prevail upon Shamruck to remain at home -until some of the citizens wished him "Merry Christmas" should be -allowed to give away the Christmas panniers.</p> - -<p>The Christmas panniers were two great wicker baskets, filled with -valuable presents, and given by the King every Christmas to the most -deserving person in his dominions. The panniers were put on the back of -a mule, and driven on Christmas morning to the door of the deserving -person. The King proposed this year, as the greatest prize he could set -before any of his subjects, to forego his delightful privilege of giving -away the panniers in favor of that person who should make Shamruck hear, -for the first time in his life, a "Merry Christmas."</p> - -<p>This proclamation set all the people in a ferment. Everybody wished to -gain the prize, and everybody began to devise some plan by which to do -it. It was now Monday, and as Christmas came on the following Saturday, -there was no time to be lost. All day Tuesday great people and common -people thronged to the giant's castle to try to persuade him to change -his mind about going away at Christmas-time. Some of these the giant -listened to, some he laughed at, and some he told to go home. About noon -he put up a placard in front of his castle, and shut the great door. The -placard read thus:</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>"Any person coming up here to disturb me with propositions about -Christmas, shall be thrown back to his home, wherever that may be.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Shamruck</span>."</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>After this nobody knocked at the giant's door.</p> - -<p>About a dozen miles from Shamruck's castle there lived two young giants. -They had heard of the King's proclamation. They laughed when they heard -of the placard on Shamruck's castle. "He can't throw us anywhere," they -said. "We are nearly as powerful as he is. If we want to make him stay -at home, all we have to do is to do it. If he attempts to go away, we -will just take hold of him, and show him that two giants are better than -one."</p> - -<p>The next day the two young giants met Shamruck taking a walk by a -river-bank not far from his castle. They went up to him and spoke to him -very civilly.</p> - -<p>"Shamruck," they said, "the King desires that you will stay at home this -Christmas, and we have undertaken to carry out his wishes. So you must -go back to your castle, and stay there until Saturday morning."</p> - -<p>"Suppose I don't do it?" said Shamruck.</p> - -<p>"Then we will take you back," said the young giants.</p> - -<p>"Very well, then, I don't do it," remarked Shamruck.</p> - -<p>Upon this, one of the young giants took hold of Shamruck by the right -shoulder, while the other took him by the left, and they endeavored to -turn him around. If you have ever tried to twist a lamp-post, you will -know how hard it was to turn Shamruck around. The two young giants could -not do it. Shamruck let them try for a little while, and then turning -suddenly, he took one of them by his belt and the back of his neck and -hurled him heels over head into the middle of the river. He then caught -the other fellow by his collar. The young giant, very much frightened, -seized hold of a small tree, to which he held with all his might and -main. Shamruck paid no attention to this, but gave him such a tremendous -jerk that the tree came up by the roots, and both it and the giant went -splash into the river.</p> - -<p>Shamruck then continued his walk, and the two young giants came out of -the river, and went home, with their minds firmly made up that they -would never again try to make Shamruck do anything he did not wish to.</p> - -<p>There was a little shoemaker in the city who thought he had a very good -idea. He went boldly up to the castle, and found Shamruck sitting in his -front door.</p> - -<p>"You needn't throw me back to my home. I have come only to ask you to -let me make you a pair of new boots. You will want them if you are going -on a journey."</p> - -<p>The giant looked at his boots, which were very old and worn. "Yes," he -said, "I do want a new pair. How long will it take you to make them?"</p> - -<p>"They can be done Friday night," said the shoemaker.</p> - -<p>"That won't do," said Shamruck, "for I shall want to wear them at least -a day, so as to make them easy before I begin my journey."</p> - -<p>"Very well, you shall have them to-morrow night."</p> - -<p>At the appointed time the boots were done, and each was carried by four -shoemakers up to the giant's castle. Shamruck thought they were very -well made boots.</p> - -<p>"There is a good deal of iron about the heels," he said.</p> - -<p>"Yes," replied the shoemaker; "you won't want them to wear out very -soon, if you are going to travel in them."</p> - -<p>The giant went into his great hall and put the boots on; and then the -shoemaker told him to stand up while he and his assistants buckled the -boots around the ankles. While the seven assistants were buckling the -boots very tightly, the wily shoemaker went behind the giant, and -putting great screws in plates of iron he had set in the heels of the -boots, he screwed them firmly to the oaken floor.</p> - -<p>When all this was done, the shoemakers retired to some distance, and the -giant attempted to take a step.</p> - -<p>"What is the matter?—what is the matter?" he roared. "I can not move my -feet."</p> - -<p>"You needn't try to do it," said the shoemaker, who stood by the open -door. "Your heels are screwed fast to the floor, and those buckles are -all padlocked. You can't get loose."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span></p> - -<p>"And what do you expect me to do?" shouted Shamruck.</p> - -<p>"I intend you to stay there until Saturday morning," said the shoemaker, -"when the people can come and wish you a 'Merry Christmas.' Then, if -you'll promise not to hurt me, I'll unlock your buckles and unscrew your -heels."</p> - -<p>"I must stay here, must I?" roared Shamruck. And with that he jerked up -his right foot with such force that the great oaken plank to which the -heel was screwed came crashing and splintering with it. At this the -eight shoemakers dashed out of the front door and ran down the hill. The -giant now pulled up the other foot, plank and all. Then he sat down and -cut the straps of his boots, and taking them off he unscrewed the heels -from the planks.</p> - -<p>"With new buckles and straps," he said, "these will be good boots, and -if ever I catch that shoemaker, I will pay him for them."</p> - -<p>The shoemaker was very much frightened, but he was a stubborn little -fellow, and would not easily give up his purpose of winning the -Christmas panniers. "There is no use of trying force on that giant," he -said, "and everybody knows by this time that he can't be persuaded to do -what he don't want to do. There is nothing left but to have him -enchanted or bewitched. This very night I will go to see the fairies."</p> - -<p>In a wood not very far from the city there lived a colony of fairies. -The shoemaker knew the grassy glade, and he went directly to it. He had -scarcely reached it when he met a fairy tripping along quietly by -herself.</p> - -<p>"How now, poor man?" exclaimed the fairy. "What brought you here?"</p> - -<p>"Why do you think I am a poor man?" asked the shoemaker, very -respectfully.</p> - -<p>"I know very well," replied the fairy, "that you would not have come -here at night if you had not needed something very much indeed. What is -it?"</p> - -<p>The shoemaker told her all about Shamruck, and the King's wishes, and -how he and others had failed to detain the giant. Then he besought her -to help him.</p> - -<p>"And what are you going to do with the panniers when you get them?" -asked the fairy.</p> - -<p>"I shall give them to the most deserving person I know," he answered, -with a little chuckle. "A very worthy fellow indeed."</p> - -<p>The fairy understood him. "I do not care a bit," she said, "about -benefiting you, for I am not at all certain you deserve it, but I think -the King is quite right in wishing Shamruck to spend Christmas with the -rest of the people, and I have a great mind to try and see what I can do -to bring the thing about."</p> - -<p>"But if you succeed," said the shoemaker. "I must have the credit of the -affair, for if I had not come here to-night you never would have done -anything at all."</p> - -<p>"That is very true," returned the fairy. "I should not have thought of -it."</p> - -<p>After a few minutes' reflection the fairy told the shoemaker that she -had a plan which she thought was a good one. "And if I succeed," she -said, "what will you do for me? Will you make me a pair of slippers?"</p> - -<p>The shoemaker laughed as he looked at her tiny feet. "I'll do that," he -said, "whether you succeed or not."</p> - -<p>"Very well," said the fairy. "Take my measure."</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 641px;"> -<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="641" height="700" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"SHE GATHERED THOSE LITTLE BEINGS ABOUT HER."</span> -</div> - -<p>The fairy then went away as fast as she could to the top of a cold -mountain, where the ice imps dwelt. She gathered these little beings -about her, and when she had told them what she wanted them to do, every -ice imp waved his diamond cap in the air, and vowed he would go to work -that very instant.</p> - -<p>The next morning Shamruck got up and went out to look for his cow. -Somehow he had a good deal of trouble in finding her. He could hear the -tinkle of her bell, but it came from some very tall reeds and rushes, -and he could not see her. At last, hearing the bell close to his feet, -he stooped down that he might the better find the cow.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> -<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="600" height="521" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"IN A MOMENT A STRANGE FIGURE APPEARED BEFORE HIM."</span> -</div> - -<p>Suddenly he felt himself moving. In an instant he was out from among the -rushes, and he found that he was sliding down a long hill of ice as -smooth as a polished slab of marble, and which extended a great -distance, to what seemed the bottom of a deep ravine. The descent was -very gradual, and the giant slid slowly down, but though he made every -effort to do so, he found it impossible to stop. In a moment a strange -figure appeared before him. It was a very small dwarf, about a foot -high, mounted upon stilts four or five times longer than himself. On the -end of each stilt was a little skate, and on these the dwarf was sliding -backward down the hill.</p> - -<p>"Hello!" said the little fellow. "How do you like it?"</p> - -<p>"I don't like it at all," roared Shamruck. "What does it all mean?"</p> - -<p>"It means that you are going to the bottom of this ravine," said the -dwarf, throwing out his arms to steady himself. "I expect you'll go -faster after you get well started, but you needn't be afraid. There's a -pile of straw—four or five tons—at the bottom, and you'll go right -into that."</p> - -<p>"Who did this thing?" cried Shamruck.</p> - -<p>"You'll find out when you get to the bottom," said the dwarf. "But -there! did you see? I nearly went over."</p> - -<p>"You'll break your neck directly," said the giant.</p> - -<p>"No, I won't. Or at least I think I won't. But my stilts are very -unsteady. They are made of skewers tied together with thread, and they -are not stiff a bit, and the skates make them more shaky yet."</p> - -<p>"What did you put them on for, you little idiot?" said the giant.</p> - -<p>"I was bound to slide down with you," replied the dwarf, "and I wanted -something to raise me up, so I could talk to you and hear you. You see, -I want to tell the ice imps and the fairies what you say while you are -sliding down."</p> - -<p>"You can tell them," roared Shamruck, "that I said you were an -impertinent little fool, and that I hoped you'd break your neck."</p> - -<p>"There's nothing interesting in that," said the dwarf. "Can't you tell -me what sort of sensations you have? Did any of your family ever—"</p> - -<p>At this moment one of the stilts of the dwarf bent under him, the other -flew forward, and the little fellow went sprawling on the ice.</p> - -<p>Shamruck had not time to see what happened next. He was now moving very -swiftly, and as he passed the struggling dwarf he tumbled over on his -back, and so went on and on until he landed safely in the pile of straw -at the bottom of the hill.</p> - -<p>The giant floundered to his feet, and looked about him in dismay. He was -in an enormous pit, three sides of which arose perpendicularly high -above his head, while in front of him stretched upward the smooth and -glittering ice hill. He knew it would be absurd for him to try to ascend -this, and the steep walls were covered and glazed with ice, and -impossible to climb.</p> - -<p>He was greatly wondering how there happened to be such a place, how he -happened to slide into it, and how he should ever get out of it, when he -heard a little voice not far from his head. Turning around, he saw the -fairy standing upon a slight projection on the wall.</p> - -<p>"Are you hurt?" she said.</p> - -<p>"No, I am not hurt," he roared; "but what is the meaning of this? Had -you a hand in it?"</p> - -<p>"Yes," she said; "I invented this pit and the hill, but it was the ice -imps who carried out my plans."</p> - -<p>"And what did you plan it for, you wicked little creature?" cried. -Shamruck.</p> - -<p>"I am not wicked," replied the fairy; "and I did it because<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span> I wanted to -please the King, and to make you stay with him over Christmas, and I -think I managed it very well. Some of us fairies took the bell from your -cow, and we tinkled it before you until we led you to the very brink of -the ice hill. Then you slid down, and were not hurt, and now you can't -get away."</p> - -<p>"But what good will that do you and the King?" cried the giant. "I shall -certainly not join him and his people at Christmas."</p> - -<p>"You can't help it," said the fairy. "To-night the ice imps will build -up the ice under you until you and your straw will be on the side of a -very high hill. You will be in a smooth cleft or gully of ice, which -will slope downward until it ends in one of the great parks outside of -the city. You can't get out of the cleft, and are bound to slide down as -soon as we are ready. Everybody will know what is going to happen, and -the King and hundreds of people will be in the park. Then, early -to-morrow morning, you will slide down among them, and everybody will -bid you 'Merry Christmas.' What do you think of that plan? Giants and -men can do nothing with you, but we little creatures can manage you, -can't we?"</p> - -<p>"You are a lot of little miscreants," said Shamruck, "and you can do a -great deal of mischief when you try. I acknowledge that in this case you -are more powerful than giants or men. But do you know what will happen -if you carry out this plan?"</p> - -<p>"What?" asked the fairy.</p> - -<p>"I shall lose my temper, a thing I don't often do; but I know I shall do -it if you play such a trick on me as that."</p> - -<p>"And what will happen then?" asked the fairy.</p> - -<p>"Happen!" cried Shamruck. "I shall boil over with rage. If I find myself -against my will among those people on Christmas-day, I shall be so wild -with anger that I will trample them to death without mercy. There will -not be many of them who will think it a merry Christmas."</p> - -<p>"Do you really mean that?" asked the fairy.</p> - -<p>"I certainly do," said Shamruck.</p> - -<p>The little creature looked earnestly at the giant's stern face. -"Shamruck," she cried, "if this plan of mine is to cause trouble and -misery, I give it up instantly. I'll make the ice imps build the hill up -under you, and the slide shall lead right down to your castle. If I do -that, will you be satisfied, and will you hurt nobody?"</p> - -<p>"If you do that," said Shamruck, "I will be satisfied, and will hurt -nobody."</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span></p> - -<p>The fairy instantly left him, and it was not long before Shamruck felt -that the pile of straw on which he was sitting was gradually rising in -the air. Soon he was on a level with the surface of the earth. Then he -rose higher and higher, until he sat upon the top of a small hill. Then -before him gradually but swiftly appeared a long slope of smooth ice. -Down this the pile of straw, with Shamruck on it, now rapidly began to -slide, and it did not stop until he found himself at the back door of -his castle.</p> - -<p>It was now late in the afternoon, and the giant laughed as he entered -his castle and made ready for his journey.</p> - -<p>"How ridiculous it is," he said to himself, "for these creatures to try -to make me do what I don't want to!"</p> - -<p>When he was ready to start, he opened the front door, but stopped -suddenly as he saw something on the door-step. At first he did not -perceive in the twilight what this object was, but stooping down, he saw -it was a little girl.</p> - -<p>"Child!" he cried, "what are you doing here? I almost trod upon you."</p> - -<p>"I am terribly tired," the little girl said, "and I am as hungry as -anything. I thought you'd be coming out after awhile."</p> - -<p>"Have you been here long?" asked Shamruck.</p> - -<p>"A pretty good long while," said the little girl, "and I think I must -have been asleep."</p> - -<p>"If you are hungry," said the giant, "I can give you some milk. I have -some left from my supper, and it is a pity to let it get sour."</p> - -<p>The giant went back into his castle, and lighted a torch; then he took -from a shelf an enormous bowl, with some milk in it. This, with a piece -of bread, he put upon the table, and told the little girl to eat.</p> - -<p>The child looked up at him with a troubled countenance, and Shamruck -instantly perceived that it was impossible for her to help herself to -any of the food. She could not reach the table even if she stood upon -one of his big chairs. Besides this, the bowl was entirely too large for -her to manage. So, taking one of his smallest spoons, he sat down, and -took the little girl on his lap. Then he fed her with milk from the -spoon, and gave her as large a piece of bread as she could hold in her -hands.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 559px;"> -<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="559" height="600" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"TAKING MILK FROM THE GIANT'S SPOON WAS LIKE DRINKING OUT -OF A SOUP PLATE."</span> -</div> - -<p>Taking milk from the giant's spoon was like drinking out of a soup -plate; but the child was very hungry. She drank the milk and ate the -bread, and felt happier and happier every moment. When she had had -enough, she leaned back against the giant's hand, and looked at him with -a little smile, and said, "It is ever so nice not to be hungry!"</p> - -<p>"You poor little child," said Shamruck, "are you often hungry?"</p> - -<p>"Nearly always," said the little girl. "It didn't use to be quite so bad -when mother was with me, but it was pretty bad even then."</p> - -<p>"Where is your mother?" asked the giant.</p> - -<p>"She is tired to death," said the little girl.</p> - -<p>"Really and truly?" exclaimed Shamruck.</p> - -<p>"Yes, and they buried her," said the child.</p> - -<p>Shamruck did not say anything for a few moments, and then he asked, "Did -you come here to spend Christmas?"</p> - -<p>"Christmas?" said the child, drowsily. "Is it anywhere near Christmas?"</p> - -<p>"Why, yes," said the giant. "Don't you know that?"</p> - -<p>"No," replied the little<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span> girl, "I had forgotten all about it. I used to -remember when Christmas came, but for the last two or three years mother -told me I had better try to forget it. I did try, but I found it right -hard to forget Christmas. I always remembered it a little until this -time."</p> - -<p>"Poor child!" thought the giant. "It must be very hard to be obliged to -forget Christmas when you want to remember it. Now, as for me, I'd be -very glad to forget it if these people would only let me. But I must be -going. Little girl," he said aloud, "wouldn't you like to take a nap?"</p> - -<p>The little girl did not answer, for she was already taking a nap. She -had thrown herself back upon the giant's knee, and was sleeping soundly. -Shamruck looked down upon her and smiled.</p> - -<p>"She must be very tired," he said to himself. "I'll put her down in the -middle of my bed." But when he attempted to take her in his hands, the -child turned over and looked so troubled at having her sleep disturbed -that Shamruck let her lie where she was. "She will wake up after a -while," he said, "and then I'll put her in my bed." But the little girl -slept soundly a long time, and Shamruck sat and looked at her, and -thought what a pity it was that there should be such creatures in the -world as himself and this little girl who could not enjoy Christmas when -it came. "It should not come at all," he thought, "when it only makes us -feel how lonely and miserable we are." Once again he tried to move the -little girl, but she turned over with such an impatient gesture, and -such a troubled look upon her sleeping face, that he could not bear to -disturb her.</p> - -<p>After a while he heard, through the open door, a clock striking in the -city. "I wonder what time it is?" he said to himself. "I must be off -before daylight."</p> - -<p>It was not long after this that he heard the voices of people coming up -the hill. It was past twelve o'clock, and a large party of the citizens, -who had staid up late to see Christmas come in, had noticed the light in -the giant's castle, and had come up the hill to see if he was really -there. They entered the hall, and were astonished to see him sitting by -his table. With one accord they took off their hats and shouted: "Merry -Christmas! merry Christmas, Shamruck! A merry, merry Christmas to you!"</p> - -<p>Other people now came running up the hill, and entered the castle, and -everybody shouted, "Merry Christmas!" over and over again.</p> - -<p>At first Shamruck sat, utterly bewildered, looking at the people, and -listening to this strange greeting. Then he leaned forward, and shouted, -"It isn't Christmas yet."</p> - -<p>The little girl, who had been awakened by the noise, sat up on his knee, -and looked as much astonished as he was himself.</p> - -<p>"It <i>is</i> Christmas," cried the people; "it struck twelve o'clock half an -hour ago."</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> -<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="600" height="313" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"THE KING, WHEN HE HEARD OF IT, JUMPED OUT OF BED."</span> -</div> - -<p>People were still coming up the hill, and the good news had been passed -from mouth to mouth until it reached the city. The King, when he heard -of it, jumped out of bed, and ordered his coach and sixteen piebald -horses. They were speedily ready, and then he went galloping up the hill -to the castle.</p> - -<p>"Shamruck," he cried, as he ran into the great hall, "you must stay with -us now all day, and join in our festivities. You promised to do that if -you ever staid long enough for anybody to wish you a 'Merry Christmas.'"</p> - -<p>"Yes," said the giant, "I promised that, and I suppose I must stay."</p> - -<p>Shamruck, first having turned the empty bowl upside down on the floor -for the King to sit upon, now told all that occurred to him in the last -few days, and how it had happened that he was still at home.</p> - -<p>"Little girl," said the King, "the Christmas panniers are yours, and in -the morning you shall know everything about them. You shall now come -with me to my palace, and the Queen will have you washed and dressed -suitably for Christmas."</p> - -<p>The festivities in the city began soon after breakfast. The little girl -was the heroine of the day. The Christmas panniers were presented to her -amid great cheering and rejoicing, and the King told her all about them.</p> - -<p>"If I am to give the panniers away," she said. "I shall give them to -Shamruck, for he is the best person I know."</p> - -<p>It was not very polite to say this before the King, and some of the -courtiers smiled a little; but his Majesty said, "You have made a good -choice." And he patted her on the head.</p> - -<p>Then, turning to his treasurer, he said: "If these panniers are to go to -Shamruck, you must hasten to empty them of their contents. The giant -will not want the pretty knickknacks and costly ornaments they contain. -Put the panniers on the back of the stoutest mule in the stables, and -fill them with gold and silver coin."</p> - -<p>This was speedily done, and the stout mule had scarcely staggered into -the great square in which the court and the people were assembled, when -Shamruck approached. He was late; but messengers who had been sent up to -see what detained him had reported that he had not answered to their -calls, but looking through the cracks of the door, they had seen him -mending his clothes. So nothing was said to him about his tardiness; and -although he looked rather shabby among the people in their holiday -clothes, nobody cared for that. He was cheered and welcomed as no one -had ever been welcomed before in that great city. When he was told that -the panniers were his, he stood still for a minute, and said not a word. -Then he turned to the King, and said,</p> - -<p>"I will not take the panniers unless I can also have the little girl."</p> - -<p>"Will you go to him?" asked the King of the child.</p> - -<p>"Indeed I will!" said she. "He is kind and good, and his cow gives the -best milk I ever tasted."</p> - -<p>Then Shamruck gently took up the child and kissed her. It was one of the -largest kisses any little girl ever had, but she was not frightened a -bit.</p> - -<p>The Christmas festivities lasted all day, and far into the night, and -when they were over, Shamruck declared that he had never had the least -idea what a joyful day was this great holiday, and the little girl told -the King that no matter what happened, she never could forget Christmas -again.</p> - -<p>Shamruck did not want a mule. He took the panniers in one hand and the -little girl in the other, and went up to his castle, a great crowd of -people accompanying him, and singing carols as they walked. In a day or -two pleasant rooms were fitted up for the little girl in the castle, and -the giant provided her with teachers and good companions, and she grew -up to be a fair and happy woman. As for Shamruck, he was never gloomy -again, and ever afterward Christmas-time was to him the most joyful -season of all the year.</p> - -<p>The little shoemaker had a weary time trying to make the fairy slippers. -He had not imagined it could be such a difficult task. He could never -shave any leather thin enough; he could never get any thread or -waxed-ends fine enough; and his fingers were all too big to handle such -tiny things. He worked in his spare time, as he had said he would; but -as he had always given himself a good deal of spare time, he had to work -a good deal on the slippers. Before long he began to dislike them so -much that he gave more attention to his regular business, so as to have -as little spare time as possible, and he soon became a prosperous man. -The fairy slippers were never finished, but the little shoemaker made -all the boots for the giant Shamruck, and all the shoes for the little -girl, and he charged them nothing at all.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span></p> - -<h2><a name="MISTRESS_SANTA_CLAUS" id="MISTRESS_SANTA_CLAUS">MISTRESS SANTA CLAUS.</a></h2> - -<h3>BY MARGARET EYTINGE.</h3> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 15em;">Much you have heard about old Santa Claus,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">But naught, I think, of his good-natured wife,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 15em;">And I must tell you of her, dears, because</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">In sweet'ning life for you she spends her life.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 15em;">She's small and plump, her eyes are brown and bright,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">And in a cave she lives that's full of toys,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 15em;">Where, with her servant-elves, from morn till night</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">She's busy working for the girls and boys.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 15em;">Yes, quite three hundred days out of the year</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Never a single idle hour have they,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 15em;">For well they know there would be many a tear</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Should sugar-plums fall short on Christmas-day.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">And oh! and oh! the sugar-plums!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Some brown, some red, and some as white</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">As snow-flakes when they first alight;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Some holding grapes, some holding cherries,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Some bits of orange, some strawberries,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Some tasting like a peach or rose,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And some that dainty nuts inclose:</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Some filled with cream, and some with spice,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And all so very, very nice.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">And oh! and oh! the sugar-plums!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Those funny, funny little elves,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">They cram the boxes and the drums,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The bags, the baskets, and the shelves;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">They heap them high upon the floor,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">In closets pack them two miles long,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">And when there is no room for more</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">They sing a jolly elfish song;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And pretty Mistress Santa Claus,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">With sugar sticking to her thumbs</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And tiny fingers, laughs aloud</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">To think of that great eager crowd</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Of smiling girls and smiling boys</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Awaiting for her husband's toys.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">And oh! and oh! the sugar-plums!</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 15em;">And now, sweethearts, when merry Christmas comes,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">And you greet Santa's gifts with loud applause,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 15em;">Remember who sent you the sugar-plums,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 16em;">And give one cheer for Mistress Santa Claus.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2><a name="A_PERFECT_CHRISTMAS" id="A_PERFECT_CHRISTMAS">A PERFECT CHRISTMAS.</a></h2> - -<h3>BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.</h3> - -<h3><span class="smcap">Chapter I</span>.</h3> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="400" height="369" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"IT SEEMED TO LIE SOUND ASLEEP, WITH A SNOW BLANKET ALL -OVER ITS ROOF."</span> -</div> - -<p>There was not a larger house in all the valley than Grandfather -Vrooman's. It was old and comfortable, and seemed to lie sound asleep, -with a snow blanket all over its roof.</p> - -<p>Nothing short of a real old-fashioned Christmas could wake up such a -house as that.</p> - -<p>Christmas was coming!</p> - -<p>Unless Santa Claus and the Simpsons and the Hopkinses should forget the -day of the month, they would all be there at waking-up time to-morrow -morning.</p> - -<p>"Jane," said Grandmother Vrooman, that afternoon, to her daughter, Mrs. -Hardy, who lived with her—"Jane, I've got 'em all fixed now just where -they're going to sleep, and I've made up a bed on the floor in the -store-room."</p> - -<p>"Why, mother, who's that for?"</p> - -<p>"You wait and see, after they get here, and we've counted 'em."</p> - -<p>"Anyhow there's cookies enough, and doughnuts."</p> - -<p>"And the pies, Jane."</p> - -<p>"And I'm glad Liph gathered such piles of butternuts."</p> - -<p>"Oh, mother," exclaimed little Sue, "I gathered as many as he did, and -beech-nuts, and hickory-nuts, and—"</p> - -<p>"So you did, Sue; but I wonder if two turkeys'll go round, with only one -pair of chickens?"</p> - -<p>"Mother," said Mrs. Hardy, "the plum-pudding?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, but all those children! I do hope they'll get here to-night in -time for me to know where I'm going to put 'em."</p> - -<p>At that very minute, away up the north road, two miles nearer town, -there was a sort of dot on the white road. If you were far enough away -from it, it looked like a black dot, and did not seem to move. The -nearer you came to it the funnier it looked, and the more it seemed to -be trudging along with an immense amount of small energy. Very small -indeed, for anybody close up to it would have seen that it was a -five-year-old boy in a queer little suit of gray trimmed with red. He -had on a warm gray cap, and right in the middle of the front of it were -worked a pair of letters—"O. A."—but there was nobody with the gray -dot to explain that those two letters stood for "Orphan Asylum." No, nor -to tell how easy it was for a boy of five years old, with all the head -under his gray cap full of Christmas ideas, to turn the wrong corner -where the roads crossed south of the great Orphan Asylum building. That -was what he had done, and he had walked on and on, wondering why the big -building did not come in sight, until his small legs were getting tired, -and his brave, bright little black eyes were all but ready for a crying -spell.</p> - -<p>Just as he got thoroughly discouraged he came to the edge of the woods, -where there stood a wood sleigh with two horses in front of it, drawn -close to the road-side, and heaped with great green boughs and branches.</p> - -<p>"The sleigh's pretty nigh full, grandfather," sang out a clear boyish -voice beyond the fence, and a very much older one seemed to go right on -talking.</p> - -<p>"Your grandmother, Liph, she always did make the best mince-pies, and -she can stuff a turkey better'n any one I know."</p> - -<p>"Grandfather, do you s'pose they'll all come?"</p> - -<p>"Guess they will. That there spruce'll do for the Christmas tree. Your -grandmother said we must fetch a big one."</p> - -<p>"That's a whopper. But will Joe Simpson and Bob Hopkins be bigger'n they -were last summer?"</p> - -<p>"Guess they've grown a little. They'll grow this time, if they eat all -their grandmother'll want 'em to. Hullo, Liph, who's that out there in -the road?"</p> - -<p>"Guess it's a boy."</p> - -<p>"I declare if it isn't one of them little gray mites from the 'sylum! -'Way out here! I say, bub."</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 470px;"> -<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="470" height="600" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"I'M BIJAH."</span> -</div> - -<p>"I'm Bijah."</p> - -<p>There was a scared look in the black eyes, for they had never seen -anything quite like Grandfather Vrooman when he pushed his face out -between the branches.</p> - -<p>The trees all looked as if they had beards of snow, but none had a -longer or whiter one than Liph's grandfather.</p> - -<p>"Bijah," said he, "did you know Christmas was coming?"</p> - -<p>"Be here to-morrow," piped the dot in gray, "and we're going to have -turkey."</p> - -<p>"You don't say! Just you wait until I cut a tree down, and I'll come out -and hear all about it."</p> - -<p>"Is your name Santa Claus?"</p> - -<p>"Did you hear that, Liph? The little chap's miles from home, and I don't -believe he knows it."</p> - -<p>"Is that your sleigh?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, Bijah, that's my sleigh."</p> - -<p>"Those ain't reindeers, and you're bigger'n you used to be."</p> - -<p>"Hear that, Liph?"</p> - -<p>Bijah had not a doubt in the world but that he had discovered Santa -Claus in the very act of getting ready for Christmas, and his black eyes -were growing bigger every minute, until Liph began to climb over the -fence. Then he set off on a run as fast as his legs could carry him.</p> - -<p>"Hold on," shouted Liph. "We won't hurt you."</p> - -<p>"Let him go," said Grandfather Vrooman. "He's on the road to our house. -We'll pick him up."</p> - -<p>"Where could we put him?"</p> - -<p>"Took me for Santa Claus, I declare! Liph, this here tree'll just suit -your grandmother."</p> - -<p>It was a splendid young spruce-tree, with wide-reaching boughs at less -than two feet from the snow level. Grandfather<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span> Vrooman worked his way -carefully in until he could reach the trunk with saw and axe, and then -there was a sharp bit of work for him and Liph to get that "Christmas -tree" stowed safely on the top of the sleigh load.</p> - -<p>"Now for home, Liph. Your grandmother'll cut into one of them new pies -for you when you get there."</p> - -<p>"Look!" shouted Liph, "that little fellow's waiting for us at the top of -the hill."</p> - -<p>The hill was not a high one, and the road led right over it, and there -on the summit stood Bijah.</p> - -<p>"I'm so tired and hungry," he said to himself, "and there comes old -Santa Claus, sleigh and all."</p> - -<p>He was getting colder, too, now he was standing still, and when -Grandfather Vrooman came along the road, walking in front of the sleigh, -while Liph perched among the evergreens and drove, there seemed to be -something warm about him.</p> - -<p>It was not so much his high fur hat, or his tremendous overcoat, or his -long white beard, or the way he smiled, but something in the sound of -his voice almost drove the frost out of Bijah's nose.</p> - -<p>"Well, my little man, don't you want to come to my house and get some -pie?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, sir."</p> - -<p>Bijah could not think of one other word he wanted to say, and he -mustered all the courage he had not to cry when Grandfather Vrooman -picked him up, as if he had been a kitten, and perched him by the side -of Liph among the evergreens.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 664px;"> -<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="664" height="600" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"DO YOU LIVE WITH SANTA CLAUS IN HIS OWN HOUSE?"</span> -</div> - -<p>On he went, and Bijah did not answer a single one of Liph's questions -for five long minutes. Then he turned<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span> his black eyes full on his -driver, and asked, "Do you live with Santa Claus in his own house?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, sir-ee," responded Liph, with a great chuckle of fun; but all he -had to do the rest of the way home was to spin yarns for Bijah about the -way they lived at the house where all the Christmas came from.</p> - -<p>When they got there, Liph's father and the hired man and Grandfather -Vrooman were ready to lift off that Christmas tree, and carry it through -the front door and hall, and set it up in the "dark room" at the end of -the hall. That ought to have been the nicest room in the house, for it -was right in the middle, but there were no windows in it. There were -doors in every direction, however, and in the centre of the ceiling was -a "scuttle hole" more than two feet square, with a wooden lid on it.</p> - -<p>"John," said Grandfather Vrooman to Mr. Hardy, "we'll hoist the top of -the tree through the hole. You go up and open the scuttle. Hitch the top -good and strong. There'll be lots of things to hang on them branches."</p> - -<p>Liph's father hurried up stairs to open the scuttle, and that gave -Grandfather Vrooman a chance to think of Bijah. "Where is he, Liph?"</p> - -<p>"Oh, he's all right. Grandmother's got him. She and mother caught him -before he got into the house. He tried to run away, too."</p> - -<p>Bijah's short legs had been too tired to carry him very fast, and -Grandmother Vrooman and Mrs. Hardy had caught him before he got back to -the gate.</p> - -<p>The way they laughed about it gave him a great deal of courage, and he -never cried when they took him by his red little hands; one on each -side, and walked him into the house.</p> - -<p>"Jane," said grandmother, "what will we do with him? The house'll be -choke, jam, packed full, and there isn't an extra bed."</p> - -<p>"Father found him in the snow somewhere. Just like him. But what a rosy -little dot he is!"</p> - -<p>"Are you Santa Claus's wives?" asked Bijah, with a quiver of his lip in -spite of himself.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 379px;"> -<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="379" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"WITH A PLATE OF MINCE-PIE IN HIS LAP, AND BUSH, THE BIG -HOUSE-DOG, SITTING BESIDE HIM."</span> -</div> - -<p>How they did chuckle while they tried to answer that question! All they -made clear to Bijah was that the place for him was in a big chair before -the sitting-room fire-place, with a plate of mince-pie in his lap, and -Bush, the big house-dog, sitting beside him.</p> - -<p>"It's Santa Claus's dog," said Bijah to himself; "but his house isn't as<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span> -big as the 'sylum."</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chapter II</span>.</p> - -<p>There were fire-places in every room on the ground-floor of Grandfather -Vrooman's house, and some kind of a stove in more than half the rooms up -stairs.</p> - -<p>There were blazing fires on every hearth down stairs, and Liph got hold -of Bijah after a while, and made him and Bush go around with him to help -poke them up. Bijah had never seen a fire-place before, and it was a -great wonder to him, but Bush sat down in front of each fire and barked -at it.</p> - -<p>It was getting dark when they reached the great front parlor, and the -fire-place there was wonderful.</p> - -<p>"Woof, woof, woof," barked Bush.</p> - -<p>Bijah stood still in the door while Liph went near enough to give that -fire a poke, and he could hear Grandfather Vrooman away back in the -sitting-room:</p> - -<p>"Now, my dear, we'll stick him away somewhere. Put him in one of the -stockings, and hang him up."</p> - -<p>"That's me," groaned Bijah. "He's going to make a present of me to -somebody. Oh dear! I wish I could run away."</p> - -<p>But he could not, for there was Liph and there was Bush, and it was -getting dark.</p> - -<p>"Now, my dear," went on grandfather, "I'll just light up, and then I'll -go and meet that train. I'll bring Prue and her folks, and Pat'll meet -the other, and bring Ellen and hers. Won't the old house be full this -time!"</p> - -<p>"He's caught some more somewhere," whispered Bijah to himself. "I wonder -who'll get 'em? Who'll get me?"</p> - -<p>That was an awful question, but Liph and Bush all but ran against him -just then, and he heard grandmother say:</p> - -<p>"You'll have to stick candles on the window-sills. I can't spare any -lamps for up stairs."</p> - -<p>"But, my dear, it's got to be lit up—every room of it. I want 'em to -know Christmas is coming."</p> - -<p>"That's what they were all saying at the 'sylum this morning," thought -Bijah, "and here I am, right where it's coming to."</p> - -<p>So he was, and he and Liph and Bush watched them finish setting the -supper table, till suddenly Bush gave a great bark and sprang away -toward the front door. Grandfather Vrooman had hardly been gone from the -house an hour, but here he was, back again.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> -<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="600" height="434" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"WHAT A RACKET THEY MADE AT THE GATE."</span> -</div> - -<p>Jingle, jingle, jingle. How the sleigh-bells did dance as that great -load of young folk came down the road, and what a racket they made at -the gate, and how Bush, and Liph, and grandmother, and the rest did help -them!</p> - -<p>"He's caught 'em all," said Bijah; "but they ain't scared a bit."</p> - -<p>No one would have thought so if they had seen Mrs. Prue Hopkins and her -husband and her six children follow Grandfather Vrooman into the house.</p> - -<p>They were hardly there, and some of them had their things on yet, when -there came another great jingle, and ever so much talking and laughter -down the other road.</p> - -<p>"He's caught some more. Some are little and some are big. I wonder -who'll get the baby?"</p> - -<p>Bush was making himself hoarse, and had to be spoken to by Mr. Hardy, -while Mrs. Simpson tried to unmix her children from the Hopkinses long -enough to be sure none of them had dropped out of the sleigh on the -road.</p> - -<p>Then Liph set to work to introduce his cousins to Bijah, and Bush came -and stood by his new friend in gray, to see that it was properly done.</p> - -<p>"Where'd you come from?" asked Joe Simpson.</p> - -<p>"'Sylum," said Bijah. "Where'd he catch you?"</p> - -<p>"Catch what?" said Joe, but Liph managed to choke off the chuckle he was -going into, and to shout out:</p> - -<p>"Why, Joe, we found him in the road to-day. He thinks grandfather's old -Santa Claus, and this house is Christmas."</p> - -<p>"So I am—so it is," said Grandfather Vrooman.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span></p> - -<p>"We'll make him hang up his stocking with all the rest to-night."</p> - -<p>Bijah could not feel scared at all with so many children around him, and -he was used to being among a crowd of them. Still, it was hard to feel -at home after supper, and he might have had a blue time of it if it -hadn't been for Liph and Bush. It had somehow got into Bush's mind that -the dot in gray was under his protection, and he followed Bijah from one -corner to another.</p> - -<p>All the doors into the "dark room" were open, and it was the lightest -room in the house, with its big fire on the hearth and all the lamps -that were taken in after supper; but there was not one thing hanging on -the Christmas tree until Grandfather Vrooman exclaimed:</p> - -<p>"Now for stockings! It's getting late, children. I must have you all in -bed before long."</p> - -<p>"Stockings?"</p> - -<p>They all knew what that meant, and so did Bijah, but it was wonderful -how many that tree had to carry. Bob Hopkins insisted on hanging two -pairs for himself, and Thad Simpson was begging his mother for a second -pair, when Liph Hardy came in from the kitchen with a great, long, empty -grain bag.</p> - -<p>"What in the world is that for?" asked grandmother, perfectly -astonished. "Why, child, what do you mean by bringing that thing in -here?"</p> - -<p>"One big stocking for grandfather. Let's hang it up, boys. Maybe Santa -Claus'll come and fill it."</p> - -<p>There was no end of fun over Grandfather Vrooman's grain-bag stocking, -that was all leg and no foot, but Uncle Hiram Simpson took it and -fastened it strongly to a branch in the middle of the tree. It was close -to the trunk, and was almost hidden; but Liph saw Uncle Hiram wink at -Aunt Ellen, and he knew there was fun of some kind that he had not -thought of.</p> - -<p>Grandmother Vrooman had been so busy with all those children from the -moment they came into the house that she had almost lost her anxiety; -but it came back to her now all of a sudden.</p> - -<p>"Sakes alive! Jane," she said to Mrs. Hardy, "every last one of 'em's -got to be in bed before we can do a thing with the stockings."</p> - -<p>Bijah heard her, for he was just beyond the dining-room door, with a -cruller in each hand, and it made him shiver all over.</p> - -<p>"I wish I was in the 'sylum. No, I don't either; but I kind o' wish I -was."</p> - -<p>Bijah was a very small boy, and he had not seen much of the world, but -his ideas were almost as clear as those of the other children and -Grandmother Vrooman for the next fifteen minutes. The way the Simpson -and Hopkins families got mixed up, with Liph and Sue Hardy to help them, -was something wonderful. Old Bush wandered from room to room after them, -wagging his tail and whining.</p> - -<p>"Mother," exclaimed Mrs. Hardy at last, "the bed you made on the floor -in the store-room!"</p> - -<p>"Just the thing for him. All the rest go in pairs, I'll put that poor -little dear right in there."</p> - -<p>So she did, and not one of her own grandchildren was tucked in warmer -than was Bijah. He did not kick the bedclothes off next minute, either, -and he was the only child in the house of whom that could be said. -Grandfather Vrooman paid a visit of inspection all around from room to -room, and Bush went with him. It took him a good while. When he came to -the store-room and looked in, Bijah's tired eyes were already closed as -tight as were the fingers of the little hand on the coverlet, which was -still grasping a cruller.</p> - -<p>He was fast asleep, but Grandfather Vrooman was not; and yet, when Bush -looked up at him, the old man's eyes were shut too, and there was a stir -in his thick white beard as if his lips were moving.</p> - -<p>Things got pretty still after a while, and then there began a steady -procession in and out of the "dark room" which was not dark.</p> - -<p>Boxes went in, and bundles, and these were opened and untied, and their -contents spread out and looked at and distributed. It was no wonder -Grandfather Vrooman's big sleigh had been so full, and the one Pat had -driven, when they brought the Hopkins and Simpson families from the -north and south railway stations.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> -<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="600" height="434" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"GRANDFATHER CAME IN WITH A BACK-LOAD OF SLEDS."</span> -</div> - -<p>Grandfather himself went away out to the barn once for something he said -he had hidden there, and while he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span> was gone Aunt Ellen Simpson and Uncle -Hiram slipped a package into the grain bag, and grandmother handed Uncle -Hiram another to slip in on top of it, and Uncle John Hardy and Uncle -Martin Hopkins each handed him another, and the bag was almost half -full, but you could not see it from outside; and then they all winked at -each other when grandfather came in with a back-load of sleds. -Grandmother may have thought she knew what they were winking about, but -she didn't, for Uncle Hiram whispered to Aunt Ellen:</p> - -<p>"I'm glad it's a big stocking. One'll do for both of 'em."</p> - -<p>It was late when they all went to bed, and there was so much fire in the -fire-place they were half afraid to leave it, but Grandfather Vrooman -said it was of no use to try and cover it up, and the room would be warm -in the morning.</p> - -<p>When they got up stairs, the children must all have been asleep, for -there was not a sound from any room, and the older people went to bed on -tiptoe, and they had tried hard to not so much as whisper on the stairs.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chapter III</span>.</p> - -<p>Oh, how beautiful the country was when the gray dawn came next -morning!—white and still in the dim and slowly growing light.</p> - -<p>So still! But the stillest place was the one Bijah woke up in. He could -not guess where he was at first, but he lay awhile and remembered.</p> - -<p>"Santa Claus's house, and they're all real good. He's going to give me -to somebody as soon as it's Christmas."</p> - -<p>He got up very quickly and looked around him. It was not dark in the -store-room, for there was a great square hole in the middle of the -floor, and a glow of dull red light came up through it which almost made -Bijah feel afraid.</p> - -<p>There was his little gray suit of clothes, cap and all, close by his bed -on the floor, and he put them on faster than he ever had done it before.</p> - -<p>"Where's my other stocking?"</p> - -<p>He searched and searched, but it was of no use, and he said, "I can't -run away in the snow with a bare foot."</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 312px;"> -<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="312" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"HE CRAWLED FORWARD, AND LOOKED DOWN THROUGH THE SCUTTLE -HOLE."</span> -</div> - -<p>He had been getting braver and braver, now he was wide awake, and he -crawled forward and looked down through the scuttle hole. He knew that -room in a minute, but he had to look twice before he knew the tree.</p> - -<p>"Ever so many stockings! And they're all full. Look at those sleds! Oh -my!"</p> - -<p>Whichever way he looked, he saw something wonderful, and he began to get -excited.</p> - -<p>"I can climb down. It's just like going down stairs."</p> - -<p>It was just about as safe and easy, with all those branches under him, -and all he had to do was to sit on one, and get ready to sit on the next -one below him. He got about half way down, and there was the grain bag, -with its mouth wide open. Just beyond it on the same bough, but further -out, there hung a very small stocking indeed.</p> - -<p>"That's mine!" exclaimed Bijah. "It's cram full, too. They've borrowed -it, after all theirs were full. I want it to put on now, but I can't -reach it out there."</p> - -<p>Just then he began to hear noises up stairs, and other noises in the -rooms below—shouts and stamping, and people calling to one another—and -he could not make out what they were saying.</p> - -<p>"Oh dear! they're coming. Santa Claus is coming. Christmas is coming. -What'll I do?"</p> - -<p>Bijah was scared; but there was the wide mouth of Grandfather Vrooman's -grain-bag "stocking," and almost before Bijah knew what he was doing he -had slipped in.</p> - -<p>Poor Bijah! The moment he was in he discovered that he could not climb -out. He tried hard, but there was nothing on the sides of the bag for -his feet to climb on. Next moment, too, he wanted to crouch down as low -as he could, for all the noise seemed to be coming nearer.</p> - -<p>So it was, indeed, and at the head of it were grandfather and -grandmother and the other grown-up people, trying to keep back the boys -and girls until they should all be gathered.</p> - -<p>"Where's Bijah?" asked grandfather, after he had counted twice around, -and was sure about the rest.</p> - -<p>"Bijah!" exclaimed Liph. "Why, I looked in the store-room; he isn't -there."</p> - -<p>"Hope the little chap didn't get scared and run away."</p> - -<p>"Dear me—through the snow!" exclaimed grandmother.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span></p> - -<p>"Of course not," said Aunt Jane. "He's around somewhere. Let's let the -children in. They're all here."</p> - -<p>"Steady, now!" said grandfather, as he swung open the door into the -"dark room." "Don't touch anything till we all get in. Stand around the -tree."</p> - -<p>He himself stepped right in front of it, and he looked more like a -great, tall old Santa Claus than ever as he stood there. The children's -eyes were opening wider and wider as they slipped around in a sort of -very impatient circle; but grandfather's own eyes shut for a moment, as -they had a habit of doing sometimes, and his white beard was all of a -tremble. It was only for a moment, but when he looked around again, he -said:</p> - -<p>"Now, children, wait. Which of you can tell me what Child it was that -came into the world on the first Christmas morning?"</p> - -<p>They had not been quite ready to answer a question that came so -suddenly, and before any of them could speak, a clear, sweet little -voice came right out of the middle of the tree:</p> - -<p>"I know. And the shepherds found Him in a manger, and His mother was -with Him. He sent down after my mother last summer."</p> - -<p>"Bijah!" exclaimed grandfather, but grandmother was already pushing -aside the boughs, and now they all could see him. Only his curly head -and his little shoulders showed above the grain bag, and Uncle Hiram -shouted:</p> - -<p>"Father Vrooman, he is in your stocking! Who could have put him there!"</p> - -<p>"I think I know," said grandfather, in a very low, husky kind of voice; -but all the Simpsons and Hopkinses and Hardys broke loose at that very -moment, and it took them till breakfast-time to compare with each other -the things they found in their stockings, and all the other wonderful -fruits of that splendid Christmas tree.</p> - -<p>Bijah was lifted out of the bag, and he got his stocking on after it was -empty. For some reason he couldn't guess why all the grown-up people -kissed him, and grandfather made him sit next to him at breakfast.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span></p> - -<p>That was a great breakfast, and it took ever so long to eat it, but it -was hardly over before grandmother followed grandfather into the hall, -and they heard her say,</p> - -<p>"Now, husband, what are you wrapping up so for, just to go to the barn?"</p> - -<p>"Barn? Why, my dear, I'm going to town. I told Pat to have the team -ready."</p> - -<p>"To town? Why, husband—"</p> - -<p>"Mother, there'll be stores open to-day. I can buy cords of toys and -candy and things. When I get to the Orphan Asylum, to tell 'em what has -become of Bijah, and why he won't ever come back there again, I'm going -to have enough to go around among the rest of 'em—I am, if it takes the -price of a cow."</p> - -<p>"Give 'em something for me."</p> - -<p>Uncle Hiram heard it, and he shouted, "And for me," and Uncle John -followed, and all the rest, till the children caught it up, and there -was a contribution made by every stocking which had hung on that -Christmas tree. They all gave just as fast as they understood what it -was for, and the last one to fully understand was Bijah.</p> - -<p>"You ain't going to take me?"</p> - -<p>His lip quivered a little.</p> - -<p>"No, Bijah, not unless you want to go. Wouldn't you rather stay here?"</p> - -<p>"Course I would."</p> - -<p>That was not all, for both his hands were out, holding up the store of -things which had come to him that morning, and he added, "Take 'em."</p> - -<p>Something was the matter again with Grandfather Vrooman's beard, but he -told Bijah he would get plenty of other things in town.</p> - -<p>"Keep 'em, Bijah. Good-by, all of you. I'll be back in time for dinner. -Children, you and Bush must be kind to Bijah. He came to us on Christmas -morning, and he has come to stay."</p> - -<p>Bush and the children did their part, and so did all the rest, and so -did Bijah, and so it was a perfect Christmas.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="THE_MAGIC_CLOCK" id="THE_MAGIC_CLOCK">THE MAGIC CLOCK;</a></h2> - -<h4>OR,</h4> - -<h3>THE REWARD OF INDUSTRY.</h3> - -<h4>A Trick Pantomime for Children.</h4> - -<h3>BY G. B. BARTLETT.</h3> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">The <span class="smcap">Farmer</span>,</td><td align="center">afterward </td><td align="left">the miserly King.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">His Wife <span class="smcap">Jane</span>,</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">the Old Woman with the Broom.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Polly</span>,</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">Little Miss Muffit</td><td align="left">}</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Mabel</span>,</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">Cinderella</td><td align="left">}</td><td align="left">The Farmer's</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Margaret</span>,</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">Bopeep</td><td align="left">}</td><td align="left">Daughters.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Isabel</span>,</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">A Beggar</td><td align="left">}</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Willie</span>,</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">A Beggar.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Robin</span>, a Servant,</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">the Prince.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Jack</span>,</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">the Insatiate Hen</td><td align="left">}</td><td align="left">The Farmer's</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Tom</span>,</td><td align="center">"</td><td align="left">the Spider</td><td align="left">}</td><td align="left">Sons.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">The <span class="smcap">Fairy</span>, disguised as a poor Old Woman.</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<blockquote> - -<p>One small boy is concealed in the chimney, and another under the -table.</p> - -<p>The clock, fire-place, table, fowl, etc., are fully explained, so -that they can be easily prepared by children.</p></blockquote> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>This pantomime, can be acted in any room with a simple curtain, or in a -large hall. Lively music adds to the spirit of the performers, and -enables them to give directions to each other without being heard.</p> - -<h3>SCENE.</h3> - -<p>The farmer's kitchen, a fire-place at the right, with a crane from which -a kettle hangs, with great logs which rest on high brass andirons. A -tall old-fashioned clock case stands against the back wall, nearly in -front of which is a large table covered with a white cloth, and set for -supper. At the left is a small table, over which hangs a mirror. Six -chairs and two stools, a rocking-chair, broom, and dishes, are also -needed. The tanner sits at the right of the fire, counting money from a -leather bag. His wife sits in the rocking-chair, knitting.</p> - -<p>Mabel is employed in brushing the hearth. The proud daughter Isabel is -trimming a showy hat; as she adds new decorations to it, she -contemplates her face in the mirror, and tries it on with evident -delight, occasionally walking about the room, and appealing for -admiration.</p> - -<p>Polly is cooking the Christmas supper, and often swings forward the long -crane, from which an iron pot hangs over the fire, adding a little salt -from time to time. The idle Margaret reclines in a low chair; her sewing -has fallen from her listless hands, which lie idly in her lap, and she -seems to be careless of all around her. Jack sits by the fire, and is -constantly eating from the contents of his pockets, which are full of -nuts, apples, cakes, and candy.</p> - -<h3>ACTION.</h3> - -<p>Willie enters, struts about the room with a profusion of low bows, of -which little notice is taken by any one but the farmer's wife, who -shakes his hand, and gives him a cordial welcome. She leads him toward -Isabel, who rises, makes him a low courtesy, taking hold of her dress -with both hands, to do which she lays the hat in a chair. Willie seems -struck with the courtesy, and imitates it so clumsily that all laugh. In -his confusion he sits down on the hat, and jumps up quickly. Isabel -picks up the hat, which is crushed flat, and tries in vain to restore it -to shape; then claps it on Willie's head as if to try the effect, while -he sits in a very stiff attitude in imitation of a milliner's block.</p> - -<p>Robin then enters, rubbing his hands as if suffering from the cold; he -approaches the fire to warm them; the farmer looks scornfully at him, -and motions him away; he seems ashamed, and retreats to the back of the -room, and sits on a stool beside Willie, who laughs and upsets the stool -with his foot. Robin sits heavily down upon the floor, and in falling -hits Willie's foot, who falls forward. Isabel laughs, but Mabel runs to -his aid, forgetting her dusty hands, which cover his coat with ashes, as -he clumsily regains his seat.</p> - -<p>Robin rises, and nearly sits down upon Tom, a small boy who has picked -up the stool, and is lying across it. Tom crawls away just in time, and -tries to wake up Margaret, tangles his mother's yarn about his feet, and -seems intent upon mischief. The farmer rises as if angry at being -disturbed, but Mabel goes toward him, as if apologizing for the -accident; then runs to the door as a knock is heard. A poor old woman -enters, and asks alms from each, begging money from the farmer, who -refuses, and points to the door, which motion all follow in turn, except -Robin and Mabel. Jack pretends to give her an apple, which he holds near -her lips, but withdraws it as she is about to taste, and crowds it into -his own mouth; then claps his hands as if he had done a clever action. -The old woman next tries to lift the lid off the kettle, but Polly -resists, and pushes her away so hastily that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span> she burns her fingers, and -begins to cry. Mabel and Robin try to comfort her, and Mabel takes a -cake from Jack, and hands it to the old woman, who eats it as if she was -very hungry. Jack begins to cry for his cake, and Mabel motions that he -has plenty more, but he shakes his head and cries again. A great cake -then comes from the chimney, strikes Jack on the head, and fastens -around his neck like a gigantic old-fashioned doughnut with a hole -through the centre.</p> - -<p>Jack seems much pleased, and tries to taste his new collar, but finds it -impossible to get his teeth into it. The farmer begins to scold at the -old woman, and lays down his purse upon the settle, in order to push her -out, when the purse flies up the chimney, and hangs just out of his -reach. He jumps for it, and it begins dancing up and down. All the rest -except Mabel and Robin chase the old woman round the room, led by the -farmer's wife, who secures a broom, and tries to strike her. The old -woman rushes from side to side, and Mabel opens the clock, into which -she springs, and is concealed in a moment. The farmer makes a frantic -leap for his money bag, and knocks over the kettle. Jack and Tom jump -about violently as if scalded, while Mabel picks up the fowl, places it -upon the table, and persuades her father to come to supper. Robin places -chairs, and all sit down.</p> - -<p>The clock strikes, and as the farmer turns around, he sees instead of -the face of the clock, that of a pretty little girl with blonde hair. He -calls the attention of the rest of his family to this change, but when -they look the clock face alone appears. The farmer seems very much -astonished, and puts on his spectacles, when he again beholds the sweet -face, which disappears as soon as he has called the attention of the -family.</p> - -<p>They resume their meal. As the farmer attempts to cut up the fowl, it -lifts itself up and gives a loud crow. The farmer drops his knife in -fear and trembling, but is encouraged by Jack, who expresses in -pantomime that he is very hungry. The farmer makes a second attempt, at -which the fowl leaps from the table and disappears up the chimney. The -farmer and his wife rush out of the room in eager haste, followed by all -the family.</p> - -<p>The clock case opens and shows a beautiful fairy, who waves her wand in -the air five times, and transforms the whole family into Mother Goose -personages. The farmer returns dressed in a long red robe with a huge -crown on his head, and personates the King who spends all his time -counting out his money. This he constantly does, taking it from a large -bag; and as soon as he has counted all the pieces, he puts his hand up -to his crown, trying in vain to lift it off, as if it made his head -ache; then he begins again to count over and over his tiresome money.</p> - -<p>The farmer's wife comes in next as the old woman with the broom. She -rushes about, raising a great dust, and then jumps up and down, brushing -the ceiling of the room, as if trying to brush the cobwebs from the sky.</p> - -<p>Isabel then flaunts into the room, followed by Willie, taking long -strides, and seeming full of vanity, turning their heads from side to -side as if lost in admiration of themselves. The others all laugh at the -sight, for they have become the beggars, and are flaunting about in rags -and tags, which they are as proud of as if they were dressed in velvet -gowns.</p> - -<p>Margaret enters next as little Bopeep, groping around in search of her -lost sheep; she sometimes leans upon her crook with her left hand, and -points off eagerly with her right, and finally throws herself into her -chair and goes to sleep.</p> - -<p>Polly appears as little Miss Muffit, eating curds and whey from a large -bowl which she carries in her left hand; she draws a stool toward the -fire-place, and sits down. Tom, as the spider, rushes out from under the -table and sits down beside her, at which Polly drops the bowl and spoon -in fright. She then rushes round the room three times, pursued by the -spider.</p> - -<p>Jack then enters as the insatiate hen, who eats more victuals than -threescore men; he rushes around the room, and seems wholly unsatisfied -with all he can devour. Mabel is changed into Cinderella, and sits by -the fire in a dejected attitude, upon which the fairy comes down from -the clock, and calls her attention to the Prince, Robin, whose rough -frock flies away up the chimney, and he kneels before her as a Prince in -gorgeous raiment. Mabel's old robe then disappears in the same manner. -Robin fits a glass slipper upon her foot, which makes her dance with -delight. He leads her to the upper end of the room toward the King her -father, who is so overcome by her beauty that he forgets his avarice, -and bestows the whole of the money upon her.</p> - -<p>The happy pair, followed by the King, then march around the room to each -of the personages, and the old woman sweeps a path before them, as if -eager to make their way pleasant and easy. The beggars seem to forget -their pride, and their ragged dresses fly away up the chimney, and they -appear neatly clad. The fairy touches the spider with her wand; he -stands upright, offers his arm to Miss Muffit, and they join the -procession.</p> - -<p>The fairy then enters the clock, which marches twice around the room -followed by all the characters, and then resumes its place. All join in -a grand reel; the King, taking the old woman for his partner, stands -opposite Cinderella and the Prince, who take the head of the set. The -two repentant beggars take one side, with Miss Muffit and the spider -opposite. They dance all hands round, then the first lady promenades -around the set outside, followed by her partner, who then joins her, and -all promenade together around once. The ladies then go forward into the -centre, and the gentlemen turn them into place with their right hand, -and then turn corners with the left, after which they go into the centre -again and form basket, go once around, divide in front, and march -forward in the same position. The gentlemen raise their hands, and the -ladies go forward alone, the gentlemen march after, and turn them into -place. The hen then wakes Bopeep, and all form a semicircle, with the -Prince and Cinderella in the centre. The clock then advances and takes -up its position behind them, bowing to each in turn. The fairy springs -forward into the centre of the group, and after waltzing around, stops -in the centre, and all salute as the curtain falls.</p> - -<h3>COSTUMES.</h3> - -<p>The farmer has a plain brown suit, over which he throws a loose robe of -Turkey red cloth, trimmed with ermine. This ermine is made of white -cotton flannel, with black marks drawn upon it with charcoal. He also -wears a crown made of gilt paper. His money bag has a black linen thread -fastened to the top, one end of which is in the hand of the boy -concealed in the chimney.</p> - -<p>The farmer's wife has a plain black dress with white kerchief, and a -high cap on which a neat front of white tow or yarn is fastened in the -centre, so that the ends can be pulled out quickly when she assumes her -second part. For this she wears a red skirt under the black, and ties a -long red cloak over her shoulders, the cape of which she draws over her -cap.</p> - -<p>Polly wears a long-sleeved checked apron, which covers her next dress. -This is made of bright cretonne tucked over a gay skirt. The waist is -long and pointed, with a high ruff of white.</p> - -<p>Mabel wears a dark skirt and loose white waist, under which is a pretty -silk dress with long train, and a square-necked waist trimmed with wax -beads. She changes the black dress for a ragged loose robe, and when -first transformed to Cinderella sits in the chimney-corner while the -thread is hooked on to the robe by which it can be drawn up chimney.</p> - -<p>Margaret has a bright skirt and loose waist over her Bopeep dress, which -is composed of a skirt of blue cambric with a red waist, the flaps of -which are cut in squares, which as well as the skirt are trimmed with -yellow braid. Under the work which lies in her lap is a straw hat -trimmed with flowers.</p> - -<p>Isabel may wear the most showy dress which can be found.</p> - -<p>Willie has a black dress-coat, which can easily be made by sewing tails -on a jacket. He can have white pantaloons, and ruffles of white paper on -his shirt, a showy neck-tie, and white hat. Both he and Isabel for their -next dress have long robes, which may be water-proof cloaks covered with -rags of every color.</p> - -<p>Robin wears a long farmer's frock over his Prince's dress, which may be -made of satteen for less than one dollar by an ingenious girl. It -consists of a loose pink body, and blue trunks, or knee-breeches, with a -cape of blue from the shoulders, each garment trimmed with long points -of the opposite color. Pink stockings, and lace collar and cuffs, and -pink and white bows on the shoes complete the costume. He has a small -slipper covered with glass beads for Cinderella.</p> - -<p>Jack and Tom appear in shabby boy's dress at first, and their next -dresses are put on over them. The hen is made of a long garment like a -shirt, one half of brown cambric, the other half of yellow, and the -sleeves of large size are sewed up at the ends. It is drawn over the -boy's head so that the brown part covers his back, his feet go into the -sleeves, and then his hands also, with which he grasps his knees. A cap -of brown cambric, with a red comb, and marked with eyes, is drawn over -the head and pinned to the robe, and the ends are tied in a bunch -opposite.</p> - -<p>The spider has a suit of snuff-brown cambric, the feet and arms of which -are sewed up like bags; on his back is fastened a pointed stuffed bag, -and a false leg cut from brown pasteboard is fastened to each side; he -runs on all fours at first, and shakes his head, which is enveloped in a -cambric bag ornamented with two curved horns, and points of yellow cloth -are sewed upon the back and around the legs. He hides under the table -until it is time to appear.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span></p> - -<p>The fairy is dressed in white tarlatan, trimmed with tinsel, over which -she has a long cloak with a hood, into which white hair is sewed. She -has a cane, and bends forward.</p> - -<h3>PROPERTIES.</h3> - -<p>The clock is a frame seven feet high, two feet wide, with a door in -front, all made of thin strips of wood covered with brown cambric, dull -side out; the face, painted on pasteboard with movable hands, slides up -and down in a groove, and is kept in place by a button at the bottom. A -high stool is hidden inside, on which the fairy climbs when she shows -her own face. She has her hand directly under the clock's face, so that -she can push it instantly into place. Straps are arranged at the height -of the fairy's shoulders, by which she can walk forward with the clock. -There are hinges near the top, so it can bow forward, and also a bell -which will strike. The fire-place is a large box three feet high, with -the upper portion taken off. Boards, painted a dull red, with lines -representing bricks, are slanted from the front and sides to the -ceiling. Turkey red cloth is nailed at the top of the box inside, which -is drawn tight by the logs which lie on the andirons. The effect of fire -is produced by a lamp behind the red cloth, and pieces of red gelatine -pasted on the logs.</p> - -<p>A small boy, concealed by the chimney, holds four threads, to which the -articles to be drawn up are fastened. The fowl is hooked on to the -thread by Jack. A real fowl may be used, which is elevated by a wire -thrust through the table by the boy, who also imitates the crowing; or a -good chicken can be made of paper. Any table will do in which a hole can -be made; there must be one also through the tin dish. The cake is made -of brown cambric. The action should be distinctly marked, and keep time -with the music, and all performers should bow as the curtain falls.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 474px;"> -<img src="images/ill_014.jpg" width="474" height="700" alt="" /> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">Notice</span>.—<i>The Serial Story, Post-office Box, and Exchanges, omitted from -our Christmas Number, will be resumed next week.</i></p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Harper's Young People, December 20, -1881, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, DEC 20, 1881 *** - -***** This file should be named 50545-h.htm or 50545-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/0/5/4/50545/ - -Produced by Annie R. 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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Harper's Young People, December 20, 1881 - An Illustrated Weekly - -Author: Various - -Release Date: November 24, 2015 [EBook #50545] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, DEC 20, 1881 *** - - - - -Produced by Annie R. McGuire - - - - - - - - -[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE] - - * * * * * - -VOL. III.--NO. 112. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR -CENTS. - -Tuesday, December 20, 1881. Copyright, 1881, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50 -per Year, in Advance. - - * * * * * - - - - -[Illustration: "'YES,' HE SAID, 'I DO WANT A NEW PAIR.'"] - - - - - NOTICE.--_The Serial Story, Post-office Box, and Exchanges, omitted - from our Christmas Number, will be resumed next week._ - - HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, 4 cents a week; $1.50 per year. - - - - -SHAMRUCK; OR, THE CHRISTMAS PANNIERS. - -BY FRANK R. STOCKTON. - - -There was once a gloomy old giant named Shamruck. His castle was on a -hill not far from a great city, in which dwelt the King of the country. -Everybody knew Shamruck. He was not a dangerous giant, and no one feared -him; but it may also be said that he never cared to do any one the -slightest service. About Christmas-time Shamruck always seemed more -quiet and melancholy than usual, and more anxious to be alone. Nothing -could ever induce him to remain in his castle during the holiday-time. -He did not wish to see nor hear the happiness and gayety of the people, -and always went away a day or two before Christmas, and did not return -until all the festivities were over. - -At the time of this story, Christmas was drawing near, and the King had -been thinking a great deal about Shamruck. It disturbed him that any one -in his kingdom, especially the very largest person in it, should not be -cheerful and happy at the joyous Christmas-time. He therefore determined -to make a grand effort to induce Shamruck to stay at home and join in -the general festivities. "If he does it once, he will do it always," -said the old King to himself. "He hasn't the least idea how happy we -are. I will go and see him myself." - -The way up the hill to Shamruck's castle was very steep and rugged, and -so the court engineers made a road up to the castle door, and along this -road the sixteen royal piebald horses easily drew the royal carriage. -The King went in to see Shamruck. He had a long talk with him, but it -was of no use. The giant would not consent to remain in the neighborhood -during Christmas. He was not even willing to stay long enough for any -one to wish him "Merry Christmas." "If I did that," said the grim old -fellow, "I wouldn't go away at all." - -Quite disappointed, the King came out, and rode back to his palace. But -this monarch did not give up his plan. He thought that although he had -not succeeded, some other person might; and so he ordered a proclamation -to be made that whoever should prevail upon Shamruck to remain at home -until some of the citizens wished him "Merry Christmas" should be -allowed to give away the Christmas panniers. - -The Christmas panniers were two great wicker baskets, filled with -valuable presents, and given by the King every Christmas to the most -deserving person in his dominions. The panniers were put on the back of -a mule, and driven on Christmas morning to the door of the deserving -person. The King proposed this year, as the greatest prize he could set -before any of his subjects, to forego his delightful privilege of giving -away the panniers in favor of that person who should make Shamruck hear, -for the first time in his life, a "Merry Christmas." - -This proclamation set all the people in a ferment. Everybody wished to -gain the prize, and everybody began to devise some plan by which to do -it. It was now Monday, and as Christmas came on the following Saturday, -there was no time to be lost. All day Tuesday great people and common -people thronged to the giant's castle to try to persuade him to change -his mind about going away at Christmas-time. Some of these the giant -listened to, some he laughed at, and some he told to go home. About noon -he put up a placard in front of his castle, and shut the great door. The -placard read thus: - - "Any person coming up here to disturb me with propositions about - Christmas, shall be thrown back to his home, wherever that may be. - - "SHAMRUCK." - -After this nobody knocked at the giant's door. - -About a dozen miles from Shamruck's castle there lived two young giants. -They had heard of the King's proclamation. They laughed when they heard -of the placard on Shamruck's castle. "He can't throw us anywhere," they -said. "We are nearly as powerful as he is. If we want to make him stay -at home, all we have to do is to do it. If he attempts to go away, we -will just take hold of him, and show him that two giants are better than -one." - -The next day the two young giants met Shamruck taking a walk by a -river-bank not far from his castle. They went up to him and spoke to him -very civilly. - -"Shamruck," they said, "the King desires that you will stay at home this -Christmas, and we have undertaken to carry out his wishes. So you must -go back to your castle, and stay there until Saturday morning." - -"Suppose I don't do it?" said Shamruck. - -"Then we will take you back," said the young giants. - -"Very well, then, I don't do it," remarked Shamruck. - -Upon this, one of the young giants took hold of Shamruck by the right -shoulder, while the other took him by the left, and they endeavored to -turn him around. If you have ever tried to twist a lamp-post, you will -know how hard it was to turn Shamruck around. The two young giants could -not do it. Shamruck let them try for a little while, and then turning -suddenly, he took one of them by his belt and the back of his neck and -hurled him heels over head into the middle of the river. He then caught -the other fellow by his collar. The young giant, very much frightened, -seized hold of a small tree, to which he held with all his might and -main. Shamruck paid no attention to this, but gave him such a tremendous -jerk that the tree came up by the roots, and both it and the giant went -splash into the river. - -Shamruck then continued his walk, and the two young giants came out of -the river, and went home, with their minds firmly made up that they -would never again try to make Shamruck do anything he did not wish to. - -There was a little shoemaker in the city who thought he had a very good -idea. He went boldly up to the castle, and found Shamruck sitting in his -front door. - -"You needn't throw me back to my home. I have come only to ask you to -let me make you a pair of new boots. You will want them if you are going -on a journey." - -The giant looked at his boots, which were very old and worn. "Yes," he -said, "I do want a new pair. How long will it take you to make them?" - -"They can be done Friday night," said the shoemaker. - -"That won't do," said Shamruck, "for I shall want to wear them at least -a day, so as to make them easy before I begin my journey." - -"Very well, you shall have them to-morrow night." - -At the appointed time the boots were done, and each was carried by four -shoemakers up to the giant's castle. Shamruck thought they were very -well made boots. - -"There is a good deal of iron about the heels," he said. - -"Yes," replied the shoemaker; "you won't want them to wear out very -soon, if you are going to travel in them." - -The giant went into his great hall and put the boots on; and then the -shoemaker told him to stand up while he and his assistants buckled the -boots around the ankles. While the seven assistants were buckling the -boots very tightly, the wily shoemaker went behind the giant, and -putting great screws in plates of iron he had set in the heels of the -boots, he screwed them firmly to the oaken floor. - -When all this was done, the shoemakers retired to some distance, and the -giant attempted to take a step. - -"What is the matter?--what is the matter?" he roared. "I can not move my -feet." - -"You needn't try to do it," said the shoemaker, who stood by the open -door. "Your heels are screwed fast to the floor, and those buckles are -all padlocked. You can't get loose." - -"And what do you expect me to do?" shouted Shamruck. - -"I intend you to stay there until Saturday morning," said the shoemaker, -"when the people can come and wish you a 'Merry Christmas.' Then, if -you'll promise not to hurt me, I'll unlock your buckles and unscrew your -heels." - -"I must stay here, must I?" roared Shamruck. And with that he jerked up -his right foot with such force that the great oaken plank to which the -heel was screwed came crashing and splintering with it. At this the -eight shoemakers dashed out of the front door and ran down the hill. The -giant now pulled up the other foot, plank and all. Then he sat down and -cut the straps of his boots, and taking them off he unscrewed the heels -from the planks. - -"With new buckles and straps," he said, "these will be good boots, and -if ever I catch that shoemaker, I will pay him for them." - -The shoemaker was very much frightened, but he was a stubborn little -fellow, and would not easily give up his purpose of winning the -Christmas panniers. "There is no use of trying force on that giant," he -said, "and everybody knows by this time that he can't be persuaded to do -what he don't want to do. There is nothing left but to have him -enchanted or bewitched. This very night I will go to see the fairies." - -In a wood not very far from the city there lived a colony of fairies. -The shoemaker knew the grassy glade, and he went directly to it. He had -scarcely reached it when he met a fairy tripping along quietly by -herself. - -"How now, poor man?" exclaimed the fairy. "What brought you here?" - -"Why do you think I am a poor man?" asked the shoemaker, very -respectfully. - -"I know very well," replied the fairy, "that you would not have come -here at night if you had not needed something very much indeed. What is -it?" - -The shoemaker told her all about Shamruck, and the King's wishes, and -how he and others had failed to detain the giant. Then he besought her -to help him. - -"And what are you going to do with the panniers when you get them?" -asked the fairy. - -"I shall give them to the most deserving person I know," he answered, -with a little chuckle. "A very worthy fellow indeed." - -The fairy understood him. "I do not care a bit," she said, "about -benefiting you, for I am not at all certain you deserve it, but I think -the King is quite right in wishing Shamruck to spend Christmas with the -rest of the people, and I have a great mind to try and see what I can do -to bring the thing about." - -"But if you succeed," said the shoemaker. "I must have the credit of the -affair, for if I had not come here to-night you never would have done -anything at all." - -"That is very true," returned the fairy. "I should not have thought of -it." - -After a few minutes' reflection the fairy told the shoemaker that she -had a plan which she thought was a good one. "And if I succeed," she -said, "what will you do for me? Will you make me a pair of slippers?" - -The shoemaker laughed as he looked at her tiny feet. "I'll do that," he -said, "whether you succeed or not." - -"Very well," said the fairy. "Take my measure." - -[Illustration: "SHE GATHERED THOSE LITTLE BEINGS ABOUT HER."] - -The fairy then went away as fast as she could to the top of a cold -mountain, where the ice imps dwelt. She gathered these little beings -about her, and when she had told them what she wanted them to do, every -ice imp waved his diamond cap in the air, and vowed he would go to work -that very instant. - -The next morning Shamruck got up and went out to look for his cow. -Somehow he had a good deal of trouble in finding her. He could hear the -tinkle of her bell, but it came from some very tall reeds and rushes, -and he could not see her. At last, hearing the bell close to his feet, -he stooped down that he might the better find the cow. - -[Illustration: "IN A MOMENT A STRANGE FIGURE APPEARED BEFORE HIM."] - -Suddenly he felt himself moving. In an instant he was out from among the -rushes, and he found that he was sliding down a long hill of ice as -smooth as a polished slab of marble, and which extended a great -distance, to what seemed the bottom of a deep ravine. The descent was -very gradual, and the giant slid slowly down, but though he made every -effort to do so, he found it impossible to stop. In a moment a strange -figure appeared before him. It was a very small dwarf, about a foot -high, mounted upon stilts four or five times longer than himself. On the -end of each stilt was a little skate, and on these the dwarf was sliding -backward down the hill. - -"Hello!" said the little fellow. "How do you like it?" - -"I don't like it at all," roared Shamruck. "What does it all mean?" - -"It means that you are going to the bottom of this ravine," said the -dwarf, throwing out his arms to steady himself. "I expect you'll go -faster after you get well started, but you needn't be afraid. There's a -pile of straw--four or five tons--at the bottom, and you'll go right -into that." - -"Who did this thing?" cried Shamruck. - -"You'll find out when you get to the bottom," said the dwarf. "But -there! did you see? I nearly went over." - -"You'll break your neck directly," said the giant. - -"No, I won't. Or at least I think I won't. But my stilts are very -unsteady. They are made of skewers tied together with thread, and they -are not stiff a bit, and the skates make them more shaky yet." - -"What did you put them on for, you little idiot?" said the giant. - -"I was bound to slide down with you," replied the dwarf, "and I wanted -something to raise me up, so I could talk to you and hear you. You see, -I want to tell the ice imps and the fairies what you say while you are -sliding down." - -"You can tell them," roared Shamruck, "that I said you were an -impertinent little fool, and that I hoped you'd break your neck." - -"There's nothing interesting in that," said the dwarf. "Can't you tell -me what sort of sensations you have? Did any of your family ever--" - -At this moment one of the stilts of the dwarf bent under him, the other -flew forward, and the little fellow went sprawling on the ice. - -Shamruck had not time to see what happened next. He was now moving very -swiftly, and as he passed the struggling dwarf he tumbled over on his -back, and so went on and on until he landed safely in the pile of straw -at the bottom of the hill. - -The giant floundered to his feet, and looked about him in dismay. He was -in an enormous pit, three sides of which arose perpendicularly high -above his head, while in front of him stretched upward the smooth and -glittering ice hill. He knew it would be absurd for him to try to ascend -this, and the steep walls were covered and glazed with ice, and -impossible to climb. - -He was greatly wondering how there happened to be such a place, how he -happened to slide into it, and how he should ever get out of it, when he -heard a little voice not far from his head. Turning around, he saw the -fairy standing upon a slight projection on the wall. - -"Are you hurt?" she said. - -"No, I am not hurt," he roared; "but what is the meaning of this? Had -you a hand in it?" - -"Yes," she said; "I invented this pit and the hill, but it was the ice -imps who carried out my plans." - -"And what did you plan it for, you wicked little creature?" cried. -Shamruck. - -"I am not wicked," replied the fairy; "and I did it because I wanted to -please the King, and to make you stay with him over Christmas, and I -think I managed it very well. Some of us fairies took the bell from your -cow, and we tinkled it before you until we led you to the very brink of -the ice hill. Then you slid down, and were not hurt, and now you can't -get away." - -"But what good will that do you and the King?" cried the giant. "I shall -certainly not join him and his people at Christmas." - -"You can't help it," said the fairy. "To-night the ice imps will build -up the ice under you until you and your straw will be on the side of a -very high hill. You will be in a smooth cleft or gully of ice, which -will slope downward until it ends in one of the great parks outside of -the city. You can't get out of the cleft, and are bound to slide down as -soon as we are ready. Everybody will know what is going to happen, and -the King and hundreds of people will be in the park. Then, early -to-morrow morning, you will slide down among them, and everybody will -bid you 'Merry Christmas.' What do you think of that plan? Giants and -men can do nothing with you, but we little creatures can manage you, -can't we?" - -"You are a lot of little miscreants," said Shamruck, "and you can do a -great deal of mischief when you try. I acknowledge that in this case you -are more powerful than giants or men. But do you know what will happen -if you carry out this plan?" - -"What?" asked the fairy. - -"I shall lose my temper, a thing I don't often do; but I know I shall do -it if you play such a trick on me as that." - -"And what will happen then?" asked the fairy. - -"Happen!" cried Shamruck. "I shall boil over with rage. If I find myself -against my will among those people on Christmas-day, I shall be so wild -with anger that I will trample them to death without mercy. There will -not be many of them who will think it a merry Christmas." - -"Do you really mean that?" asked the fairy. - -"I certainly do," said Shamruck. - -The little creature looked earnestly at the giant's stern face. -"Shamruck," she cried, "if this plan of mine is to cause trouble and -misery, I give it up instantly. I'll make the ice imps build the hill up -under you, and the slide shall lead right down to your castle. If I do -that, will you be satisfied, and will you hurt nobody?" - -"If you do that," said Shamruck, "I will be satisfied, and will hurt -nobody." - -The fairy instantly left him, and it was not long before Shamruck felt -that the pile of straw on which he was sitting was gradually rising in -the air. Soon he was on a level with the surface of the earth. Then he -rose higher and higher, until he sat upon the top of a small hill. Then -before him gradually but swiftly appeared a long slope of smooth ice. -Down this the pile of straw, with Shamruck on it, now rapidly began to -slide, and it did not stop until he found himself at the back door of -his castle. - -It was now late in the afternoon, and the giant laughed as he entered -his castle and made ready for his journey. - -"How ridiculous it is," he said to himself, "for these creatures to try -to make me do what I don't want to!" - -When he was ready to start, he opened the front door, but stopped -suddenly as he saw something on the door-step. At first he did not -perceive in the twilight what this object was, but stooping down, he saw -it was a little girl. - -"Child!" he cried, "what are you doing here? I almost trod upon you." - -"I am terribly tired," the little girl said, "and I am as hungry as -anything. I thought you'd be coming out after awhile." - -"Have you been here long?" asked Shamruck. - -"A pretty good long while," said the little girl, "and I think I must -have been asleep." - -"If you are hungry," said the giant, "I can give you some milk. I have -some left from my supper, and it is a pity to let it get sour." - -The giant went back into his castle, and lighted a torch; then he took -from a shelf an enormous bowl, with some milk in it. This, with a piece -of bread, he put upon the table, and told the little girl to eat. - -The child looked up at him with a troubled countenance, and Shamruck -instantly perceived that it was impossible for her to help herself to -any of the food. She could not reach the table even if she stood upon -one of his big chairs. Besides this, the bowl was entirely too large for -her to manage. So, taking one of his smallest spoons, he sat down, and -took the little girl on his lap. Then he fed her with milk from the -spoon, and gave her as large a piece of bread as she could hold in her -hands. - -[Illustration: "TAKING MILK FROM THE GIANT'S SPOON WAS LIKE DRINKING OUT -OF A SOUP PLATE."] - -Taking milk from the giant's spoon was like drinking out of a soup -plate; but the child was very hungry. She drank the milk and ate the -bread, and felt happier and happier every moment. When she had had -enough, she leaned back against the giant's hand, and looked at him with -a little smile, and said, "It is ever so nice not to be hungry!" - -"You poor little child," said Shamruck, "are you often hungry?" - -"Nearly always," said the little girl. "It didn't use to be quite so bad -when mother was with me, but it was pretty bad even then." - -"Where is your mother?" asked the giant. - -"She is tired to death," said the little girl. - -"Really and truly?" exclaimed Shamruck. - -"Yes, and they buried her," said the child. - -Shamruck did not say anything for a few moments, and then he asked, "Did -you come here to spend Christmas?" - -"Christmas?" said the child, drowsily. "Is it anywhere near Christmas?" - -"Why, yes," said the giant. "Don't you know that?" - -"No," replied the little girl, "I had forgotten all about it. I used to -remember when Christmas came, but for the last two or three years mother -told me I had better try to forget it. I did try, but I found it right -hard to forget Christmas. I always remembered it a little until this -time." - -"Poor child!" thought the giant. "It must be very hard to be obliged to -forget Christmas when you want to remember it. Now, as for me, I'd be -very glad to forget it if these people would only let me. But I must be -going. Little girl," he said aloud, "wouldn't you like to take a nap?" - -The little girl did not answer, for she was already taking a nap. She -had thrown herself back upon the giant's knee, and was sleeping soundly. -Shamruck looked down upon her and smiled. - -"She must be very tired," he said to himself. "I'll put her down in the -middle of my bed." But when he attempted to take her in his hands, the -child turned over and looked so troubled at having her sleep disturbed -that Shamruck let her lie where she was. "She will wake up after a -while," he said, "and then I'll put her in my bed." But the little girl -slept soundly a long time, and Shamruck sat and looked at her, and -thought what a pity it was that there should be such creatures in the -world as himself and this little girl who could not enjoy Christmas when -it came. "It should not come at all," he thought, "when it only makes us -feel how lonely and miserable we are." Once again he tried to move the -little girl, but she turned over with such an impatient gesture, and -such a troubled look upon her sleeping face, that he could not bear to -disturb her. - -After a while he heard, through the open door, a clock striking in the -city. "I wonder what time it is?" he said to himself. "I must be off -before daylight." - -It was not long after this that he heard the voices of people coming up -the hill. It was past twelve o'clock, and a large party of the citizens, -who had staid up late to see Christmas come in, had noticed the light in -the giant's castle, and had come up the hill to see if he was really -there. They entered the hall, and were astonished to see him sitting by -his table. With one accord they took off their hats and shouted: "Merry -Christmas! merry Christmas, Shamruck! A merry, merry Christmas to you!" - -Other people now came running up the hill, and entered the castle, and -everybody shouted, "Merry Christmas!" over and over again. - -At first Shamruck sat, utterly bewildered, looking at the people, and -listening to this strange greeting. Then he leaned forward, and shouted, -"It isn't Christmas yet." - -The little girl, who had been awakened by the noise, sat up on his knee, -and looked as much astonished as he was himself. - -"It _is_ Christmas," cried the people; "it struck twelve o'clock half an -hour ago." - -[Illustration: "THE KING, WHEN HE HEARD OF IT, JUMPED OUT OF BED."] - -People were still coming up the hill, and the good news had been passed -from mouth to mouth until it reached the city. The King, when he heard -of it, jumped out of bed, and ordered his coach and sixteen piebald -horses. They were speedily ready, and then he went galloping up the hill -to the castle. - -"Shamruck," he cried, as he ran into the great hall, "you must stay with -us now all day, and join in our festivities. You promised to do that if -you ever staid long enough for anybody to wish you a 'Merry Christmas.'" - -"Yes," said the giant, "I promised that, and I suppose I must stay." - -Shamruck, first having turned the empty bowl upside down on the floor -for the King to sit upon, now told all that occurred to him in the last -few days, and how it had happened that he was still at home. - -"Little girl," said the King, "the Christmas panniers are yours, and in -the morning you shall know everything about them. You shall now come -with me to my palace, and the Queen will have you washed and dressed -suitably for Christmas." - -The festivities in the city began soon after breakfast. The little girl -was the heroine of the day. The Christmas panniers were presented to her -amid great cheering and rejoicing, and the King told her all about them. - -"If I am to give the panniers away," she said. "I shall give them to -Shamruck, for he is the best person I know." - -It was not very polite to say this before the King, and some of the -courtiers smiled a little; but his Majesty said, "You have made a good -choice." And he patted her on the head. - -Then, turning to his treasurer, he said: "If these panniers are to go to -Shamruck, you must hasten to empty them of their contents. The giant -will not want the pretty knickknacks and costly ornaments they contain. -Put the panniers on the back of the stoutest mule in the stables, and -fill them with gold and silver coin." - -This was speedily done, and the stout mule had scarcely staggered into -the great square in which the court and the people were assembled, when -Shamruck approached. He was late; but messengers who had been sent up to -see what detained him had reported that he had not answered to their -calls, but looking through the cracks of the door, they had seen him -mending his clothes. So nothing was said to him about his tardiness; and -although he looked rather shabby among the people in their holiday -clothes, nobody cared for that. He was cheered and welcomed as no one -had ever been welcomed before in that great city. When he was told that -the panniers were his, he stood still for a minute, and said not a word. -Then he turned to the King, and said, - -"I will not take the panniers unless I can also have the little girl." - -"Will you go to him?" asked the King of the child. - -"Indeed I will!" said she. "He is kind and good, and his cow gives the -best milk I ever tasted." - -Then Shamruck gently took up the child and kissed her. It was one of the -largest kisses any little girl ever had, but she was not frightened a -bit. - -The Christmas festivities lasted all day, and far into the night, and -when they were over, Shamruck declared that he had never had the least -idea what a joyful day was this great holiday, and the little girl told -the King that no matter what happened, she never could forget Christmas -again. - -Shamruck did not want a mule. He took the panniers in one hand and the -little girl in the other, and went up to his castle, a great crowd of -people accompanying him, and singing carols as they walked. In a day or -two pleasant rooms were fitted up for the little girl in the castle, and -the giant provided her with teachers and good companions, and she grew -up to be a fair and happy woman. As for Shamruck, he was never gloomy -again, and ever afterward Christmas-time was to him the most joyful -season of all the year. - -The little shoemaker had a weary time trying to make the fairy slippers. -He had not imagined it could be such a difficult task. He could never -shave any leather thin enough; he could never get any thread or -waxed-ends fine enough; and his fingers were all too big to handle such -tiny things. He worked in his spare time, as he had said he would; but -as he had always given himself a good deal of spare time, he had to work -a good deal on the slippers. Before long he began to dislike them so -much that he gave more attention to his regular business, so as to have -as little spare time as possible, and he soon became a prosperous man. -The fairy slippers were never finished, but the little shoemaker made -all the boots for the giant Shamruck, and all the shoes for the little -girl, and he charged them nothing at all. - - - - -MISTRESS SANTA CLAUS. - -BY MARGARET EYTINGE. - - - Much you have heard about old Santa Claus, - But naught, I think, of his good-natured wife, - And I must tell you of her, dears, because - In sweet'ning life for you she spends her life. - She's small and plump, her eyes are brown and bright, - And in a cave she lives that's full of toys, - Where, with her servant-elves, from morn till night - She's busy working for the girls and boys. - Yes, quite three hundred days out of the year - Never a single idle hour have they, - For well they know there would be many a tear - Should sugar-plums fall short on Christmas-day. - And oh! and oh! the sugar-plums! - Some brown, some red, and some as white - As snow-flakes when they first alight; - Some holding grapes, some holding cherries, - Some bits of orange, some strawberries, - Some tasting like a peach or rose, - And some that dainty nuts inclose: - Some filled with cream, and some with spice, - And all so very, very nice. - And oh! and oh! the sugar-plums! - Those funny, funny little elves, - They cram the boxes and the drums, - The bags, the baskets, and the shelves; - They heap them high upon the floor, - In closets pack them two miles long, - And when there is no room for more - They sing a jolly elfish song; - And pretty Mistress Santa Claus, - With sugar sticking to her thumbs - And tiny fingers, laughs aloud - To think of that great eager crowd - Of smiling girls and smiling boys - Awaiting for her husband's toys. - And oh! and oh! the sugar-plums! - And now, sweethearts, when merry Christmas comes, - And you greet Santa's gifts with loud applause, - Remember who sent you the sugar-plums, - And give one cheer for Mistress Santa Claus. - - - - -A PERFECT CHRISTMAS. - -BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD. - -CHAPTER I. - - -[Illustration: "IT SEEMED TO LIE SOUND ASLEEP, WITH A SNOW BLANKET ALL -OVER ITS ROOF."] - -There was not a larger house in all the valley than Grandfather -Vrooman's. It was old and comfortable, and seemed to lie sound asleep, -with a snow blanket all over its roof. - -Nothing short of a real old-fashioned Christmas could wake up such a -house as that. - -Christmas was coming! - -Unless Santa Claus and the Simpsons and the Hopkinses should forget the -day of the month, they would all be there at waking-up time to-morrow -morning. - -"Jane," said Grandmother Vrooman, that afternoon, to her daughter, Mrs. -Hardy, who lived with her--"Jane, I've got 'em all fixed now just where -they're going to sleep, and I've made up a bed on the floor in the -store-room." - -"Why, mother, who's that for?" - -"You wait and see, after they get here, and we've counted 'em." - -"Anyhow there's cookies enough, and doughnuts." - -"And the pies, Jane." - -"And I'm glad Liph gathered such piles of butternuts." - -"Oh, mother," exclaimed little Sue, "I gathered as many as he did, and -beech-nuts, and hickory-nuts, and--" - -"So you did, Sue; but I wonder if two turkeys'll go round, with only one -pair of chickens?" - -"Mother," said Mrs. Hardy, "the plum-pudding?" - -"Yes, but all those children! I do hope they'll get here to-night in -time for me to know where I'm going to put 'em." - -At that very minute, away up the north road, two miles nearer town, -there was a sort of dot on the white road. If you were far enough away -from it, it looked like a black dot, and did not seem to move. The -nearer you came to it the funnier it looked, and the more it seemed to -be trudging along with an immense amount of small energy. Very small -indeed, for anybody close up to it would have seen that it was a -five-year-old boy in a queer little suit of gray trimmed with red. He -had on a warm gray cap, and right in the middle of the front of it were -worked a pair of letters--"O. A."--but there was nobody with the gray -dot to explain that those two letters stood for "Orphan Asylum." No, nor -to tell how easy it was for a boy of five years old, with all the head -under his gray cap full of Christmas ideas, to turn the wrong corner -where the roads crossed south of the great Orphan Asylum building. That -was what he had done, and he had walked on and on, wondering why the big -building did not come in sight, until his small legs were getting tired, -and his brave, bright little black eyes were all but ready for a crying -spell. - -Just as he got thoroughly discouraged he came to the edge of the woods, -where there stood a wood sleigh with two horses in front of it, drawn -close to the road-side, and heaped with great green boughs and branches. - -"The sleigh's pretty nigh full, grandfather," sang out a clear boyish -voice beyond the fence, and a very much older one seemed to go right on -talking. - -"Your grandmother, Liph, she always did make the best mince-pies, and -she can stuff a turkey better'n any one I know." - -"Grandfather, do you s'pose they'll all come?" - -"Guess they will. That there spruce'll do for the Christmas tree. Your -grandmother said we must fetch a big one." - -"That's a whopper. But will Joe Simpson and Bob Hopkins be bigger'n they -were last summer?" - -"Guess they've grown a little. They'll grow this time, if they eat all -their grandmother'll want 'em to. Hullo, Liph, who's that out there in -the road?" - -"Guess it's a boy." - -"I declare if it isn't one of them little gray mites from the 'sylum! -'Way out here! I say, bub." - -[Illustration: "I'M BIJAH."] - -"I'm Bijah." - -There was a scared look in the black eyes, for they had never seen -anything quite like Grandfather Vrooman when he pushed his face out -between the branches. - -The trees all looked as if they had beards of snow, but none had a -longer or whiter one than Liph's grandfather. - -"Bijah," said he, "did you know Christmas was coming?" - -"Be here to-morrow," piped the dot in gray, "and we're going to have -turkey." - -"You don't say! Just you wait until I cut a tree down, and I'll come out -and hear all about it." - -"Is your name Santa Claus?" - -"Did you hear that, Liph? The little chap's miles from home, and I don't -believe he knows it." - -"Is that your sleigh?" - -"Yes, Bijah, that's my sleigh." - -"Those ain't reindeers, and you're bigger'n you used to be." - -"Hear that, Liph?" - -Bijah had not a doubt in the world but that he had discovered Santa -Claus in the very act of getting ready for Christmas, and his black eyes -were growing bigger every minute, until Liph began to climb over the -fence. Then he set off on a run as fast as his legs could carry him. - -"Hold on," shouted Liph. "We won't hurt you." - -"Let him go," said Grandfather Vrooman. "He's on the road to our house. -We'll pick him up." - -"Where could we put him?" - -"Took me for Santa Claus, I declare! Liph, this here tree'll just suit -your grandmother." - -It was a splendid young spruce-tree, with wide-reaching boughs at less -than two feet from the snow level. Grandfather Vrooman worked his way -carefully in until he could reach the trunk with saw and axe, and then -there was a sharp bit of work for him and Liph to get that "Christmas -tree" stowed safely on the top of the sleigh load. - -"Now for home, Liph. Your grandmother'll cut into one of them new pies -for you when you get there." - -"Look!" shouted Liph, "that little fellow's waiting for us at the top of -the hill." - -The hill was not a high one, and the road led right over it, and there -on the summit stood Bijah. - -"I'm so tired and hungry," he said to himself, "and there comes old -Santa Claus, sleigh and all." - -He was getting colder, too, now he was standing still, and when -Grandfather Vrooman came along the road, walking in front of the sleigh, -while Liph perched among the evergreens and drove, there seemed to be -something warm about him. - -It was not so much his high fur hat, or his tremendous overcoat, or his -long white beard, or the way he smiled, but something in the sound of -his voice almost drove the frost out of Bijah's nose. - -"Well, my little man, don't you want to come to my house and get some -pie?" - -"Yes, sir." - -Bijah could not think of one other word he wanted to say, and he -mustered all the courage he had not to cry when Grandfather Vrooman -picked him up, as if he had been a kitten, and perched him by the side -of Liph among the evergreens. - -[Illustration: "DO YOU LIVE WITH SANTA CLAUS IN HIS OWN HOUSE?"] - -On he went, and Bijah did not answer a single one of Liph's questions -for five long minutes. Then he turned his black eyes full on his -driver, and asked, "Do you live with Santa Claus in his own house?" - -"Yes, sir-ee," responded Liph, with a great chuckle of fun; but all he -had to do the rest of the way home was to spin yarns for Bijah about the -way they lived at the house where all the Christmas came from. - -When they got there, Liph's father and the hired man and Grandfather -Vrooman were ready to lift off that Christmas tree, and carry it through -the front door and hall, and set it up in the "dark room" at the end of -the hall. That ought to have been the nicest room in the house, for it -was right in the middle, but there were no windows in it. There were -doors in every direction, however, and in the centre of the ceiling was -a "scuttle hole" more than two feet square, with a wooden lid on it. - -"John," said Grandfather Vrooman to Mr. Hardy, "we'll hoist the top of -the tree through the hole. You go up and open the scuttle. Hitch the top -good and strong. There'll be lots of things to hang on them branches." - -Liph's father hurried up stairs to open the scuttle, and that gave -Grandfather Vrooman a chance to think of Bijah. "Where is he, Liph?" - -"Oh, he's all right. Grandmother's got him. She and mother caught him -before he got into the house. He tried to run away, too." - -Bijah's short legs had been too tired to carry him very fast, and -Grandmother Vrooman and Mrs. Hardy had caught him before he got back to -the gate. - -The way they laughed about it gave him a great deal of courage, and he -never cried when they took him by his red little hands; one on each -side, and walked him into the house. - -"Jane," said grandmother, "what will we do with him? The house'll be -choke, jam, packed full, and there isn't an extra bed." - -"Father found him in the snow somewhere. Just like him. But what a rosy -little dot he is!" - -"Are you Santa Claus's wives?" asked Bijah, with a quiver of his lip in -spite of himself. - -[Illustration: "WITH A PLATE OF MINCE-PIE IN HIS LAP, AND BUSH, THE BIG -HOUSE-DOG, SITTING BESIDE HIM."] - -How they did chuckle while they tried to answer that question! All they -made clear to Bijah was that the place for him was in a big chair before -the sitting-room fire-place, with a plate of mince-pie in his lap, and -Bush, the big house-dog, sitting beside him. - -"It's Santa Claus's dog," said Bijah to himself; "but his house isn't as -big as the 'sylum." - - -CHAPTER II. - -There were fire-places in every room on the ground-floor of Grandfather -Vrooman's house, and some kind of a stove in more than half the rooms up -stairs. - -There were blazing fires on every hearth down stairs, and Liph got hold -of Bijah after a while, and made him and Bush go around with him to help -poke them up. Bijah had never seen a fire-place before, and it was a -great wonder to him, but Bush sat down in front of each fire and barked -at it. - -It was getting dark when they reached the great front parlor, and the -fire-place there was wonderful. - -"Woof, woof, woof," barked Bush. - -Bijah stood still in the door while Liph went near enough to give that -fire a poke, and he could hear Grandfather Vrooman away back in the -sitting-room: - -"Now, my dear, we'll stick him away somewhere. Put him in one of the -stockings, and hang him up." - -"That's me," groaned Bijah. "He's going to make a present of me to -somebody. Oh dear! I wish I could run away." - -But he could not, for there was Liph and there was Bush, and it was -getting dark. - -"Now, my dear," went on grandfather, "I'll just light up, and then I'll -go and meet that train. I'll bring Prue and her folks, and Pat'll meet -the other, and bring Ellen and hers. Won't the old house be full this -time!" - -"He's caught some more somewhere," whispered Bijah to himself. "I wonder -who'll get 'em? Who'll get me?" - -That was an awful question, but Liph and Bush all but ran against him -just then, and he heard grandmother say: - -"You'll have to stick candles on the window-sills. I can't spare any -lamps for up stairs." - -"But, my dear, it's got to be lit up--every room of it. I want 'em to -know Christmas is coming." - -"That's what they were all saying at the 'sylum this morning," thought -Bijah, "and here I am, right where it's coming to." - -So he was, and he and Liph and Bush watched them finish setting the -supper table, till suddenly Bush gave a great bark and sprang away -toward the front door. Grandfather Vrooman had hardly been gone from the -house an hour, but here he was, back again. - -[Illustration: "WHAT A RACKET THEY MADE AT THE GATE."] - -Jingle, jingle, jingle. How the sleigh-bells did dance as that great -load of young folk came down the road, and what a racket they made at -the gate, and how Bush, and Liph, and grandmother, and the rest did help -them! - -"He's caught 'em all," said Bijah; "but they ain't scared a bit." - -No one would have thought so if they had seen Mrs. Prue Hopkins and her -husband and her six children follow Grandfather Vrooman into the house. - -They were hardly there, and some of them had their things on yet, when -there came another great jingle, and ever so much talking and laughter -down the other road. - -"He's caught some more. Some are little and some are big. I wonder -who'll get the baby?" - -Bush was making himself hoarse, and had to be spoken to by Mr. Hardy, -while Mrs. Simpson tried to unmix her children from the Hopkinses long -enough to be sure none of them had dropped out of the sleigh on the -road. - -Then Liph set to work to introduce his cousins to Bijah, and Bush came -and stood by his new friend in gray, to see that it was properly done. - -"Where'd you come from?" asked Joe Simpson. - -"'Sylum," said Bijah. "Where'd he catch you?" - -"Catch what?" said Joe, but Liph managed to choke off the chuckle he was -going into, and to shout out: - -"Why, Joe, we found him in the road to-day. He thinks grandfather's old -Santa Claus, and this house is Christmas." - -"So I am--so it is," said Grandfather Vrooman. - -"We'll make him hang up his stocking with all the rest to-night." - -Bijah could not feel scared at all with so many children around him, and -he was used to being among a crowd of them. Still, it was hard to feel -at home after supper, and he might have had a blue time of it if it -hadn't been for Liph and Bush. It had somehow got into Bush's mind that -the dot in gray was under his protection, and he followed Bijah from one -corner to another. - -All the doors into the "dark room" were open, and it was the lightest -room in the house, with its big fire on the hearth and all the lamps -that were taken in after supper; but there was not one thing hanging on -the Christmas tree until Grandfather Vrooman exclaimed: - -"Now for stockings! It's getting late, children. I must have you all in -bed before long." - -"Stockings?" - -They all knew what that meant, and so did Bijah, but it was wonderful -how many that tree had to carry. Bob Hopkins insisted on hanging two -pairs for himself, and Thad Simpson was begging his mother for a second -pair, when Liph Hardy came in from the kitchen with a great, long, empty -grain bag. - -"What in the world is that for?" asked grandmother, perfectly -astonished. "Why, child, what do you mean by bringing that thing in -here?" - -"One big stocking for grandfather. Let's hang it up, boys. Maybe Santa -Claus'll come and fill it." - -There was no end of fun over Grandfather Vrooman's grain-bag stocking, -that was all leg and no foot, but Uncle Hiram Simpson took it and -fastened it strongly to a branch in the middle of the tree. It was close -to the trunk, and was almost hidden; but Liph saw Uncle Hiram wink at -Aunt Ellen, and he knew there was fun of some kind that he had not -thought of. - -Grandmother Vrooman had been so busy with all those children from the -moment they came into the house that she had almost lost her anxiety; -but it came back to her now all of a sudden. - -"Sakes alive! Jane," she said to Mrs. Hardy, "every last one of 'em's -got to be in bed before we can do a thing with the stockings." - -Bijah heard her, for he was just beyond the dining-room door, with a -cruller in each hand, and it made him shiver all over. - -"I wish I was in the 'sylum. No, I don't either; but I kind o' wish I -was." - -Bijah was a very small boy, and he had not seen much of the world, but -his ideas were almost as clear as those of the other children and -Grandmother Vrooman for the next fifteen minutes. The way the Simpson -and Hopkins families got mixed up, with Liph and Sue Hardy to help them, -was something wonderful. Old Bush wandered from room to room after them, -wagging his tail and whining. - -"Mother," exclaimed Mrs. Hardy at last, "the bed you made on the floor -in the store-room!" - -"Just the thing for him. All the rest go in pairs, I'll put that poor -little dear right in there." - -So she did, and not one of her own grandchildren was tucked in warmer -than was Bijah. He did not kick the bedclothes off next minute, either, -and he was the only child in the house of whom that could be said. -Grandfather Vrooman paid a visit of inspection all around from room to -room, and Bush went with him. It took him a good while. When he came to -the store-room and looked in, Bijah's tired eyes were already closed as -tight as were the fingers of the little hand on the coverlet, which was -still grasping a cruller. - -He was fast asleep, but Grandfather Vrooman was not; and yet, when Bush -looked up at him, the old man's eyes were shut too, and there was a stir -in his thick white beard as if his lips were moving. - -Things got pretty still after a while, and then there began a steady -procession in and out of the "dark room" which was not dark. - -Boxes went in, and bundles, and these were opened and untied, and their -contents spread out and looked at and distributed. It was no wonder -Grandfather Vrooman's big sleigh had been so full, and the one Pat had -driven, when they brought the Hopkins and Simpson families from the -north and south railway stations. - -[Illustration: "GRANDFATHER CAME IN WITH A BACK-LOAD OF SLEDS."] - -Grandfather himself went away out to the barn once for something he said -he had hidden there, and while he was gone Aunt Ellen Simpson and Uncle -Hiram slipped a package into the grain bag, and grandmother handed Uncle -Hiram another to slip in on top of it, and Uncle John Hardy and Uncle -Martin Hopkins each handed him another, and the bag was almost half -full, but you could not see it from outside; and then they all winked at -each other when grandfather came in with a back-load of sleds. -Grandmother may have thought she knew what they were winking about, but -she didn't, for Uncle Hiram whispered to Aunt Ellen: - -"I'm glad it's a big stocking. One'll do for both of 'em." - -It was late when they all went to bed, and there was so much fire in the -fire-place they were half afraid to leave it, but Grandfather Vrooman -said it was of no use to try and cover it up, and the room would be warm -in the morning. - -When they got up stairs, the children must all have been asleep, for -there was not a sound from any room, and the older people went to bed on -tiptoe, and they had tried hard to not so much as whisper on the stairs. - - -CHAPTER III. - -Oh, how beautiful the country was when the gray dawn came next -morning!--white and still in the dim and slowly growing light. - -So still! But the stillest place was the one Bijah woke up in. He could -not guess where he was at first, but he lay awhile and remembered. - -"Santa Claus's house, and they're all real good. He's going to give me -to somebody as soon as it's Christmas." - -He got up very quickly and looked around him. It was not dark in the -store-room, for there was a great square hole in the middle of the -floor, and a glow of dull red light came up through it which almost made -Bijah feel afraid. - -There was his little gray suit of clothes, cap and all, close by his bed -on the floor, and he put them on faster than he ever had done it before. - -"Where's my other stocking?" - -He searched and searched, but it was of no use, and he said, "I can't -run away in the snow with a bare foot." - -[Illustration: "HE CRAWLED FORWARD, AND LOOKED DOWN THROUGH THE SCUTTLE -HOLE."] - -He had been getting braver and braver, now he was wide awake, and he -crawled forward and looked down through the scuttle hole. He knew that -room in a minute, but he had to look twice before he knew the tree. - -"Ever so many stockings! And they're all full. Look at those sleds! Oh -my!" - -Whichever way he looked, he saw something wonderful, and he began to get -excited. - -"I can climb down. It's just like going down stairs." - -It was just about as safe and easy, with all those branches under him, -and all he had to do was to sit on one, and get ready to sit on the next -one below him. He got about half way down, and there was the grain bag, -with its mouth wide open. Just beyond it on the same bough, but further -out, there hung a very small stocking indeed. - -"That's mine!" exclaimed Bijah. "It's cram full, too. They've borrowed -it, after all theirs were full. I want it to put on now, but I can't -reach it out there." - -Just then he began to hear noises up stairs, and other noises in the -rooms below--shouts and stamping, and people calling to one another--and -he could not make out what they were saying. - -"Oh dear! they're coming. Santa Claus is coming. Christmas is coming. -What'll I do?" - -Bijah was scared; but there was the wide mouth of Grandfather Vrooman's -grain-bag "stocking," and almost before Bijah knew what he was doing he -had slipped in. - -Poor Bijah! The moment he was in he discovered that he could not climb -out. He tried hard, but there was nothing on the sides of the bag for -his feet to climb on. Next moment, too, he wanted to crouch down as low -as he could, for all the noise seemed to be coming nearer. - -So it was, indeed, and at the head of it were grandfather and -grandmother and the other grown-up people, trying to keep back the boys -and girls until they should all be gathered. - -"Where's Bijah?" asked grandfather, after he had counted twice around, -and was sure about the rest. - -"Bijah!" exclaimed Liph. "Why, I looked in the store-room; he isn't -there." - -"Hope the little chap didn't get scared and run away." - -"Dear me--through the snow!" exclaimed grandmother. - -"Of course not," said Aunt Jane. "He's around somewhere. Let's let the -children in. They're all here." - -"Steady, now!" said grandfather, as he swung open the door into the -"dark room." "Don't touch anything till we all get in. Stand around the -tree." - -He himself stepped right in front of it, and he looked more like a -great, tall old Santa Claus than ever as he stood there. The children's -eyes were opening wider and wider as they slipped around in a sort of -very impatient circle; but grandfather's own eyes shut for a moment, as -they had a habit of doing sometimes, and his white beard was all of a -tremble. It was only for a moment, but when he looked around again, he -said: - -"Now, children, wait. Which of you can tell me what Child it was that -came into the world on the first Christmas morning?" - -They had not been quite ready to answer a question that came so -suddenly, and before any of them could speak, a clear, sweet little -voice came right out of the middle of the tree: - -"I know. And the shepherds found Him in a manger, and His mother was -with Him. He sent down after my mother last summer." - -"Bijah!" exclaimed grandfather, but grandmother was already pushing -aside the boughs, and now they all could see him. Only his curly head -and his little shoulders showed above the grain bag, and Uncle Hiram -shouted: - -"Father Vrooman, he is in your stocking! Who could have put him there!" - -"I think I know," said grandfather, in a very low, husky kind of voice; -but all the Simpsons and Hopkinses and Hardys broke loose at that very -moment, and it took them till breakfast-time to compare with each other -the things they found in their stockings, and all the other wonderful -fruits of that splendid Christmas tree. - -Bijah was lifted out of the bag, and he got his stocking on after it was -empty. For some reason he couldn't guess why all the grown-up people -kissed him, and grandfather made him sit next to him at breakfast. - -That was a great breakfast, and it took ever so long to eat it, but it -was hardly over before grandmother followed grandfather into the hall, -and they heard her say, - -"Now, husband, what are you wrapping up so for, just to go to the barn?" - -"Barn? Why, my dear, I'm going to town. I told Pat to have the team -ready." - -"To town? Why, husband--" - -"Mother, there'll be stores open to-day. I can buy cords of toys and -candy and things. When I get to the Orphan Asylum, to tell 'em what has -become of Bijah, and why he won't ever come back there again, I'm going -to have enough to go around among the rest of 'em--I am, if it takes the -price of a cow." - -"Give 'em something for me." - -Uncle Hiram heard it, and he shouted, "And for me," and Uncle John -followed, and all the rest, till the children caught it up, and there -was a contribution made by every stocking which had hung on that -Christmas tree. They all gave just as fast as they understood what it -was for, and the last one to fully understand was Bijah. - -"You ain't going to take me?" - -His lip quivered a little. - -"No, Bijah, not unless you want to go. Wouldn't you rather stay here?" - -"Course I would." - -That was not all, for both his hands were out, holding up the store of -things which had come to him that morning, and he added, "Take 'em." - -Something was the matter again with Grandfather Vrooman's beard, but he -told Bijah he would get plenty of other things in town. - -"Keep 'em, Bijah. Good-by, all of you. I'll be back in time for dinner. -Children, you and Bush must be kind to Bijah. He came to us on Christmas -morning, and he has come to stay." - -Bush and the children did their part, and so did all the rest, and so -did Bijah, and so it was a perfect Christmas. - - - - -THE MAGIC CLOCK; - -OR, - -THE REWARD OF INDUSTRY. - -A Trick Pantomime for Children. - -BY G. B. BARTLETT. - - * * * * * - - The FARMER, afterward the miserly King. - His Wife JANE, " the Old Woman with the Broom. - POLLY, " Little Miss Muffit } - MABEL, " Cinderella } The Farmer's - MARGARET, " Bopeep } Daughters. - ISABEL, " A Beggar } - WILLIE, " A Beggar. - ROBIN, a Servant, " the Prince. - JACK, " the Insatiate Hen } The Farmer's - TOM, " the Spider } Sons. - The FAIRY, disguised as a poor Old Woman. - - * * * * * - - One small boy is concealed in the chimney, and another under the - table. - - The clock, fire-place, table, fowl, etc., are fully explained, so - that they can be easily prepared by children. - - * * * * * - -This pantomime, can be acted in any room with a simple curtain, or in a -large hall. Lively music adds to the spirit of the performers, and -enables them to give directions to each other without being heard. - - -SCENE. - -The farmer's kitchen, a fire-place at the right, with a crane from which -a kettle hangs, with great logs which rest on high brass andirons. A -tall old-fashioned clock case stands against the back wall, nearly in -front of which is a large table covered with a white cloth, and set for -supper. At the left is a small table, over which hangs a mirror. Six -chairs and two stools, a rocking-chair, broom, and dishes, are also -needed. The tanner sits at the right of the fire, counting money from a -leather bag. His wife sits in the rocking-chair, knitting. - -Mabel is employed in brushing the hearth. The proud daughter Isabel is -trimming a showy hat; as she adds new decorations to it, she -contemplates her face in the mirror, and tries it on with evident -delight, occasionally walking about the room, and appealing for -admiration. - -Polly is cooking the Christmas supper, and often swings forward the long -crane, from which an iron pot hangs over the fire, adding a little salt -from time to time. The idle Margaret reclines in a low chair; her sewing -has fallen from her listless hands, which lie idly in her lap, and she -seems to be careless of all around her. Jack sits by the fire, and is -constantly eating from the contents of his pockets, which are full of -nuts, apples, cakes, and candy. - - -ACTION. - -Willie enters, struts about the room with a profusion of low bows, of -which little notice is taken by any one but the farmer's wife, who -shakes his hand, and gives him a cordial welcome. She leads him toward -Isabel, who rises, makes him a low courtesy, taking hold of her dress -with both hands, to do which she lays the hat in a chair. Willie seems -struck with the courtesy, and imitates it so clumsily that all laugh. In -his confusion he sits down on the hat, and jumps up quickly. Isabel -picks up the hat, which is crushed flat, and tries in vain to restore it -to shape; then claps it on Willie's head as if to try the effect, while -he sits in a very stiff attitude in imitation of a milliner's block. - -Robin then enters, rubbing his hands as if suffering from the cold; he -approaches the fire to warm them; the farmer looks scornfully at him, -and motions him away; he seems ashamed, and retreats to the back of the -room, and sits on a stool beside Willie, who laughs and upsets the stool -with his foot. Robin sits heavily down upon the floor, and in falling -hits Willie's foot, who falls forward. Isabel laughs, but Mabel runs to -his aid, forgetting her dusty hands, which cover his coat with ashes, as -he clumsily regains his seat. - -Robin rises, and nearly sits down upon Tom, a small boy who has picked -up the stool, and is lying across it. Tom crawls away just in time, and -tries to wake up Margaret, tangles his mother's yarn about his feet, and -seems intent upon mischief. The farmer rises as if angry at being -disturbed, but Mabel goes toward him, as if apologizing for the -accident; then runs to the door as a knock is heard. A poor old woman -enters, and asks alms from each, begging money from the farmer, who -refuses, and points to the door, which motion all follow in turn, except -Robin and Mabel. Jack pretends to give her an apple, which he holds near -her lips, but withdraws it as she is about to taste, and crowds it into -his own mouth; then claps his hands as if he had done a clever action. -The old woman next tries to lift the lid off the kettle, but Polly -resists, and pushes her away so hastily that she burns her fingers, and -begins to cry. Mabel and Robin try to comfort her, and Mabel takes a -cake from Jack, and hands it to the old woman, who eats it as if she was -very hungry. Jack begins to cry for his cake, and Mabel motions that he -has plenty more, but he shakes his head and cries again. A great cake -then comes from the chimney, strikes Jack on the head, and fastens -around his neck like a gigantic old-fashioned doughnut with a hole -through the centre. - -Jack seems much pleased, and tries to taste his new collar, but finds it -impossible to get his teeth into it. The farmer begins to scold at the -old woman, and lays down his purse upon the settle, in order to push her -out, when the purse flies up the chimney, and hangs just out of his -reach. He jumps for it, and it begins dancing up and down. All the rest -except Mabel and Robin chase the old woman round the room, led by the -farmer's wife, who secures a broom, and tries to strike her. The old -woman rushes from side to side, and Mabel opens the clock, into which -she springs, and is concealed in a moment. The farmer makes a frantic -leap for his money bag, and knocks over the kettle. Jack and Tom jump -about violently as if scalded, while Mabel picks up the fowl, places it -upon the table, and persuades her father to come to supper. Robin places -chairs, and all sit down. - -The clock strikes, and as the farmer turns around, he sees instead of -the face of the clock, that of a pretty little girl with blonde hair. He -calls the attention of the rest of his family to this change, but when -they look the clock face alone appears. The farmer seems very much -astonished, and puts on his spectacles, when he again beholds the sweet -face, which disappears as soon as he has called the attention of the -family. - -They resume their meal. As the farmer attempts to cut up the fowl, it -lifts itself up and gives a loud crow. The farmer drops his knife in -fear and trembling, but is encouraged by Jack, who expresses in -pantomime that he is very hungry. The farmer makes a second attempt, at -which the fowl leaps from the table and disappears up the chimney. The -farmer and his wife rush out of the room in eager haste, followed by all -the family. - -The clock case opens and shows a beautiful fairy, who waves her wand in -the air five times, and transforms the whole family into Mother Goose -personages. The farmer returns dressed in a long red robe with a huge -crown on his head, and personates the King who spends all his time -counting out his money. This he constantly does, taking it from a large -bag; and as soon as he has counted all the pieces, he puts his hand up -to his crown, trying in vain to lift it off, as if it made his head -ache; then he begins again to count over and over his tiresome money. - -The farmer's wife comes in next as the old woman with the broom. She -rushes about, raising a great dust, and then jumps up and down, brushing -the ceiling of the room, as if trying to brush the cobwebs from the sky. - -Isabel then flaunts into the room, followed by Willie, taking long -strides, and seeming full of vanity, turning their heads from side to -side as if lost in admiration of themselves. The others all laugh at the -sight, for they have become the beggars, and are flaunting about in rags -and tags, which they are as proud of as if they were dressed in velvet -gowns. - -Margaret enters next as little Bopeep, groping around in search of her -lost sheep; she sometimes leans upon her crook with her left hand, and -points off eagerly with her right, and finally throws herself into her -chair and goes to sleep. - -Polly appears as little Miss Muffit, eating curds and whey from a large -bowl which she carries in her left hand; she draws a stool toward the -fire-place, and sits down. Tom, as the spider, rushes out from under the -table and sits down beside her, at which Polly drops the bowl and spoon -in fright. She then rushes round the room three times, pursued by the -spider. - -Jack then enters as the insatiate hen, who eats more victuals than -threescore men; he rushes around the room, and seems wholly unsatisfied -with all he can devour. Mabel is changed into Cinderella, and sits by -the fire in a dejected attitude, upon which the fairy comes down from -the clock, and calls her attention to the Prince, Robin, whose rough -frock flies away up the chimney, and he kneels before her as a Prince in -gorgeous raiment. Mabel's old robe then disappears in the same manner. -Robin fits a glass slipper upon her foot, which makes her dance with -delight. He leads her to the upper end of the room toward the King her -father, who is so overcome by her beauty that he forgets his avarice, -and bestows the whole of the money upon her. - -The happy pair, followed by the King, then march around the room to each -of the personages, and the old woman sweeps a path before them, as if -eager to make their way pleasant and easy. The beggars seem to forget -their pride, and their ragged dresses fly away up the chimney, and they -appear neatly clad. The fairy touches the spider with her wand; he -stands upright, offers his arm to Miss Muffit, and they join the -procession. - -The fairy then enters the clock, which marches twice around the room -followed by all the characters, and then resumes its place. All join in -a grand reel; the King, taking the old woman for his partner, stands -opposite Cinderella and the Prince, who take the head of the set. The -two repentant beggars take one side, with Miss Muffit and the spider -opposite. They dance all hands round, then the first lady promenades -around the set outside, followed by her partner, who then joins her, and -all promenade together around once. The ladies then go forward into the -centre, and the gentlemen turn them into place with their right hand, -and then turn corners with the left, after which they go into the centre -again and form basket, go once around, divide in front, and march -forward in the same position. The gentlemen raise their hands, and the -ladies go forward alone, the gentlemen march after, and turn them into -place. The hen then wakes Bopeep, and all form a semicircle, with the -Prince and Cinderella in the centre. The clock then advances and takes -up its position behind them, bowing to each in turn. The fairy springs -forward into the centre of the group, and after waltzing around, stops -in the centre, and all salute as the curtain falls. - - -COSTUMES. - -The farmer has a plain brown suit, over which he throws a loose robe of -Turkey red cloth, trimmed with ermine. This ermine is made of white -cotton flannel, with black marks drawn upon it with charcoal. He also -wears a crown made of gilt paper. His money bag has a black linen thread -fastened to the top, one end of which is in the hand of the boy -concealed in the chimney. - -The farmer's wife has a plain black dress with white kerchief, and a -high cap on which a neat front of white tow or yarn is fastened in the -centre, so that the ends can be pulled out quickly when she assumes her -second part. For this she wears a red skirt under the black, and ties a -long red cloak over her shoulders, the cape of which she draws over her -cap. - -Polly wears a long-sleeved checked apron, which covers her next dress. -This is made of bright cretonne tucked over a gay skirt. The waist is -long and pointed, with a high ruff of white. - -Mabel wears a dark skirt and loose white waist, under which is a pretty -silk dress with long train, and a square-necked waist trimmed with wax -beads. She changes the black dress for a ragged loose robe, and when -first transformed to Cinderella sits in the chimney-corner while the -thread is hooked on to the robe by which it can be drawn up chimney. - -Margaret has a bright skirt and loose waist over her Bopeep dress, which -is composed of a skirt of blue cambric with a red waist, the flaps of -which are cut in squares, which as well as the skirt are trimmed with -yellow braid. Under the work which lies in her lap is a straw hat -trimmed with flowers. - -Isabel may wear the most showy dress which can be found. - -Willie has a black dress-coat, which can easily be made by sewing tails -on a jacket. He can have white pantaloons, and ruffles of white paper on -his shirt, a showy neck-tie, and white hat. Both he and Isabel for their -next dress have long robes, which may be water-proof cloaks covered with -rags of every color. - -Robin wears a long farmer's frock over his Prince's dress, which may be -made of satteen for less than one dollar by an ingenious girl. It -consists of a loose pink body, and blue trunks, or knee-breeches, with a -cape of blue from the shoulders, each garment trimmed with long points -of the opposite color. Pink stockings, and lace collar and cuffs, and -pink and white bows on the shoes complete the costume. He has a small -slipper covered with glass beads for Cinderella. - -Jack and Tom appear in shabby boy's dress at first, and their next -dresses are put on over them. The hen is made of a long garment like a -shirt, one half of brown cambric, the other half of yellow, and the -sleeves of large size are sewed up at the ends. It is drawn over the -boy's head so that the brown part covers his back, his feet go into the -sleeves, and then his hands also, with which he grasps his knees. A cap -of brown cambric, with a red comb, and marked with eyes, is drawn over -the head and pinned to the robe, and the ends are tied in a bunch -opposite. - -The spider has a suit of snuff-brown cambric, the feet and arms of which -are sewed up like bags; on his back is fastened a pointed stuffed bag, -and a false leg cut from brown pasteboard is fastened to each side; he -runs on all fours at first, and shakes his head, which is enveloped in a -cambric bag ornamented with two curved horns, and points of yellow cloth -are sewed upon the back and around the legs. He hides under the table -until it is time to appear. - -The fairy is dressed in white tarlatan, trimmed with tinsel, over which -she has a long cloak with a hood, into which white hair is sewed. She -has a cane, and bends forward. - - -PROPERTIES. - -The clock is a frame seven feet high, two feet wide, with a door in -front, all made of thin strips of wood covered with brown cambric, dull -side out; the face, painted on pasteboard with movable hands, slides up -and down in a groove, and is kept in place by a button at the bottom. A -high stool is hidden inside, on which the fairy climbs when she shows -her own face. She has her hand directly under the clock's face, so that -she can push it instantly into place. Straps are arranged at the height -of the fairy's shoulders, by which she can walk forward with the clock. -There are hinges near the top, so it can bow forward, and also a bell -which will strike. The fire-place is a large box three feet high, with -the upper portion taken off. Boards, painted a dull red, with lines -representing bricks, are slanted from the front and sides to the -ceiling. Turkey red cloth is nailed at the top of the box inside, which -is drawn tight by the logs which lie on the andirons. The effect of fire -is produced by a lamp behind the red cloth, and pieces of red gelatine -pasted on the logs. - -A small boy, concealed by the chimney, holds four threads, to which the -articles to be drawn up are fastened. The fowl is hooked on to the -thread by Jack. A real fowl may be used, which is elevated by a wire -thrust through the table by the boy, who also imitates the crowing; or a -good chicken can be made of paper. Any table will do in which a hole can -be made; there must be one also through the tin dish. The cake is made -of brown cambric. 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