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Christmas Fifty Years Ago

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
December
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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Huw w clJ I remeuiber iny nrst C'hri.-tinns Day! Il wat ever solong j: long Umi 1 ('innot, witliou living uway m y age, Itf pHW ) hut i ni mote ilian lifty yeara - U a larjn portioa of tlif threeHOd-tii allotcd lo man. lt WM tlie eider V.indcrbuilt ulio.v) cnjoyed thatportion ui 1 whieli extended bevond ¦ eveiily. He regarded it as a marriti of stolen yearm wid Hint the time he lived bevond the allotted period was a clear outwiuiug cil innl .Yluu' hty. lu iny opinión he gol Uie b ol the áerti that time. I ojio' 1 1 1 . i 1 a trip OB Ilic steainei Champion on the Allitnlk-. il bflongvd U Vanderinit. l'or Ure p.iliry prtce i i paaaaM froui Apiuwall to Nm York in that deliipidait-d oid iroa hji, lio perllted tha I1t ol Utree hundn-d paMasni. lf the devil iiot niiiki: lililí cu lú kind iay lul mu-Ii nodai of moaey niaklng, tlien tliere i. M)inelliiiiix iltleclive iu Uie jiroviduace of i .ixl 1 liavc uwer regartlud willi any palii iu c lur iil( .i lhin M uo heli ; and du mit ii-li ti) lic eoniiiderod lis eiiuourafiiig il; for, lf tlieir $ none, thcii SOOTe yean mui teu ara ltogÜief too -liort for rau ¦ diiigttnl linter Ui r nni wilii Mis MMUtleN. I litrr mu-i bc lull. or lite is illugioil. (tn CkrHtauM ttrt I wm bwwiwed oft" i.iii;. io bed, midi r ilie Uiat I nni-l oarlj [o u-aji Ibu lmnc-l Ol iii üial Hasta ( lausuuly gave io 'imhI liltle buya lio went lu bad cirly and led ilu'ir eider U huye a íiKd lime, a sc-"' 'i'110 ' tUose prioaitlTe imaiil lianl eider, buUernuta, a]u-, and doHghnate; t meanl eorn-huaking. appte-parings, and raiidy-iullius aüoa poopi; all KrU t pwytMid rompa, all euding In forMtt, and all toiuiih werc redeemed by ktaalng thagirte and being kist1 by llicin. '1 iicy werc rural aportl as 1 remember lliem. Vf% liad linie dauciuf iu ni.v parí oi tli' comity and littlc nintic Tuxee is my recolUíction of the bigfeat Qiüi iu uautic, and dancing a Boauewhal írowiu-d apon ai an IHIIHWiimH oí lúe devil. l!y wny ol parentheato, I bmjt retnark tliat lo Uiom oaya, and in lliat part t tne roimtry, the devil as an important pemonage, and played a promineiit part in uiatten other iban tbeoiogieaJ. Nearly all tlie (xxl ibinga werc exoiuaive prerogativea oí bis niajcsty, and tile llddla vmi I. pfcial in.-li iimc.'iil. I liavi. ot'tcii gtolen (lie niare troui tlic atabla iu Uie niiddlc ot a wlDtar'a nilit, biiebod Uer lo a "ptiug" - everjr boy bad i piiii},'. which was a crack ery cíale on runner made of polen, and Ulied til MraW and biillalo robes - and Micakcd oll' lo ii country dance al. somel'onrooruers inn. Tlie orthodox aaaaaSBMBti in llio.se linicn irai lo play "bliudiiiau's buil," "iu-iii-lh(!-c)riii.'r, ""Miap-lhe-whip,"aiid kis the jirlsJ. Wc uscd to go to speUin;; ¦ofaooll oii winter nlghta, chooae bide, and gO home ith the uirls. To idlo up tu (I liirl, and ollcr her uiv arm, and -ay '"May l aas vou lióme ?" waa a bold thing to do, and althongL I siy il niyaelf, wlio ani not viven to bowtlng, I have done it. Aud I i.id Ihc WBcy aml iinpertiucnt niinx -ay, ".o, I thank you sir," and take aiiotiier lcllow's arm, while all the boys suickered at iny discoinliture. I liave deeply blushed, but I licked tlie fellow uext day, and confes-, wHbout niortitication, thát I liave been Ueked for -imilar triuniphs. 1 huve drifted away trom iny Coxiütnuu Eve sonicwhat, but as one fjrows oíd he grows garrulous of thosc frollicking, jolly MJt W Ml boyhood, wlieii'life in the country was one grand caruivul of fun; u hen yoiith and licalth knew no aniioug moment; wheu w inter, witli its cold, snaply day, iu long, splem.id, golden winter nigliU, was an eiullesa round of pleasure - -kating on the pond, Qpaatlng On the hill, lireakiug Iteert, suow-balling. architecture in -now, and mimic warfare of pelting

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Ann Arbor Courier
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