Fort Madison High School - Madisonian Yearbook (Fort Madison, IA)

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THE CHRISTMAS GQBLIN SS N there stood a great bug goblm a starm her an th face in he sez Whut s llttle g1r rls lolke ye doln out so late on a nnght lonke thlsf Downt ye know ut we ate slch llttle uns7 'lhe ten chlldren of Mrs ORnIey a poor Irlsh w1d ow hstened IU breathless wonder for the termmatlon of Good souls latest adventure for the1r mother was tellmg them their weekly story But they had to let er go she contlnued cuz no char rm of the1r own wud wur rk on Chrlstmas Eve Whut s Chrxstmas Eve? asked Mike bompm good to ate? asked ravenous Pat k.,h1ld1r ch1ld1r downt ye know whut Chrxstmas Eve IS, Falth an It s tolme ye were larnxng' Then she told them of the httle town of Bethlehem of the Chr1stCh1ld horn so long ago and of the bells that chlmed so merrxly to welcome the blrth of the Savzor on Chrlstmas Eve Har rk' an there they be now and the chnldren hstened ln awe as the bells pealed forth thexr halleujah Down on yer knees chxldlr she commanded and they obedlently followed her example and she offered up th1s rather broken prayer Plase Lord Jesus born to nlght stop pullm the cats tall Nellne bless us an be stlll Bridget gxve us a better dmner to morrow than whut we had to day an fMlk2Y stop un lacm yer shoesl hellup us to be better than Pat stop teas1n thut dorgl we have been amen' She broke off abruptly for a knock sounded on the door behind her and b1dd1ng the chnldlr be quiet she answered It Out ln the yard a group of boys and gurls dodged about seekmg places of shelter whxle Jack Anderson the largest boy clad ln a su1t of green made espec1ally for thms oecaslon and wearmg a mon strous whlte beard stood on the doorstep a huge basket nn each hand and an xmprovlsed note stuck IH h1s hat Merry Chrlstmas samd he I have brought you a present from the Chnstmas goblxns' We hope you w111 accept them and accept them and well good nlght A gxggle came from behlnd the hlac bushes for he had forgotten a very elaborate speech prepared for the occasnon As the astomshed 1 S 1 . Y . . , . , . 1 , . ' , . . .3 , , , - 11 - - 1 . . . . , - J H W - . . . 1 . . 4 ' v . Q 1 s N . Yu vi ' ' .-- , . . --,I 5-1 1- lv .1 v vw - as 1 1 V ,-. .., AA f 1 3, - . ,, 1,,F,':-, ,. :'1, ' ' . ef - I 11 Q? 4 I 1. ,Q . ,, . sr 1 1 3 '14 - - - 'V' its . y 1, n' ' ' - , ..- . . . . , . lf? ' ' Q . - . , . , . . ,, l 1 11 , ,, , . . - , , 1 . At , , , I ' ' V Q . it . ' v 1 ' ' K . , , . . , 1 1 . . - 1 1 1 1 V . , . - - 1 E , - 1 C - 1 U 11 1 ' 1 . . . 11 . . ,, . 1 1 , . . , 1 1 I , . . - - - 1 I lt . ,, , nn 1 1 ' ' I1 Q U - '

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Till' IIIGII SCHOOI TI VIFS The two S1,'lLlkSt11C11 passed nto the tent S 11111 f 11OWlllf tt 1 fathers beck Flrst the men talked of tr1de and then of po11t1c 11 1t'f111s Herod the new governor of Jexusalem who was fast galnmg a reI11t1t1on for OPPYCSSIOH and harshness was freely dxscussed 'lhe general news of the day was the next tOp1C and Mehmed Ben A111 told h1s fr1e11d th tt two days before 1n the town of Bethlehem a beautnful boy Clllld l11d been boln to some Nizarenes WISE men of the East had come to VlSll the babe saymg they had been lei there by a brnght sttr an 'l haft 1n no1nted llllll declarmg the ch1ld to be the Messxah the Snvnor of Men and then of the lovely wh1te flower and could not but beheve that the blossom and the wonderful ch11d at Bethlehem were IH some wly con nected Thus pondermg he fell asleep The next mormng somethnng seemed te call to Selllll and ms he rode toward the sprmg he thought of the news brought byMel1n1ed Ben A111 and could not understand how such a beaut1f11l g1fted qhxld eould he born of a despxsed Nazarene 1n a town of such 111 repute as Bethlehem Then om1ng to the Bower and seelng that a pure Whlte bloom could blossom on 1 plant of such repulslve aspect he understood th1t the new Mess1ah the Sav1our of Men llllght 'also come from a N warene of Bethlehem As Sehm looked at the Hower whnch resembled a wl11te 1086 yet was many t1mes more beaut1ful he wondered for the hundredth tune what 1tS name could be He had been to the noted gardens of Damas cus many t1mes but never had he seen anythmg nearly so dazzlxngly beaut1ful and pure as thls flower ln the desert Then aga1n he thought of the analogy between the blossom and the Chrlst Ch1ld how they h nd been born on the same mght both of parentge as Sehm thought unworthy of them and 1n surroundmgs 111 fitted to two such wonderful natures and he named the beaut1ful pure whnte Bower for the Nazarene Boy and called It C11l'lStS or the Chrlstmas Flower KA111AR1NP 12015111415 6 L . 1 Lf -' : '. ' i , e ' o ' g 1 11s 'Q . . ' . ' ' ' 2 2 'z ' , ' , ,, ' ' 2 . ' . , 5 ' 1 , z . L T. D L L I:- , , ' 1 ' J Q , 1 . . 2 - 1 . . . Al . - .1 Selim listened in silence. but thought long of the star he had seen ' . ' . W ' ' ' 2 f 1 . . . , .' 1 .1 . . ,, A ' - ' - L- V ! 1 1 1 ' . . . .. . ,, Y 11 . ,, , .

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