THE MINER
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Start your holiday Shopping here... CHRISTMAS UNDER THE SNOW PART ONE OF FIVE ~ CONTINUES NEXT WEEK
BY OLIVE THORNE MILLER
From “Kristy’s Queer Christmas,” Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1904 Part One of Five It was just before Christmas, and Mr. Barnes was starting for the nearest village. The family were out at the door to see him start, and give him the last charges. “Don’t forget the Christmas dinner, papa,” said Willie. ‘”Specially the chickens for the pie!” put in Nora. “An’ the waisins,” piped up little Tot, standing on tiptoe to give papa a good-bye kiss. “I hate to have you go, George,” said Mrs. Barnes anxiously. “It looks to me like a storm.” “Oh, I guess it won’t be much,” said Mr. Barnes
lightly; “and the youngsters must have their Christmas dinner, you know.” “Well,” said Mrs. Barnes, “remember this, George: if there is a bad storm don’t try to come back. Stay in the village till it is over. We can get along alone for a few days, can’t we, Willie?” turning to the boy who was giving the last touches to the harness of old Tim, the horse. “Oh, yes! Papa, I can take care of mamma,” said Willie earnestly. “And get up the Christmas dinner out of nothing?” asked papa, smiling. “I don’t know,” said Willie, hesitating, as he remembered the proposed dinner, in which he felt a deep interest. “What could you do for the chicken pie?” went on papa with a roguish look in his eye, “or the plumpudding?” “Or the waisins?” broke in Tot anxiously.
“Tot has set her heart on the raisins,” said papa, tossing the small maiden up higher than his head, and dropping her all laughing on the door-step, “and Tot shall have them sure, if papa can find them in S--. Now good-bye, all! Willie, remember to take care of mamma, and I depend on you to get up a Christmas dinner if I don’t get back. Now, wife, don’t worry!” were his last words as the faithful old horse started down the road. Mrs. Barnes turned one more glance to the west, where a low, heavy bank of clouds was slowly rising, and went into the little house to attend to her morning duties. “Willie,” she said, when they were all in the snug little log-cabin in which they lived, “I’m sure there’s going to be a storm, and it may be snow. You had better prepare enough wood for two or three days; Nora will help bring it in.”
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Ellen Alford; Pro Automotive: Geoffrey Thompson; Seeber’s Pharmacy: Randy Neufeldt; Sadie Halstead Middle School: Bonnie Witt; White Cross Pharmacy & Compounding: L. Reser; Stratton Elementary School: Walter Burrell; Oldtown Hardware & Rental Center: Joe Hutchison; Rokstad Ford: Cindy Hagemaier; Pend Oreille Players: Jennifer Van Dyke; Newport Appliance: J.C. Norman; Tiger Physical Therapy Orthopedic & Sports Rehab Center: Anna Ratcliff; Napa Auto Parts: Rhonda Miller; Westside Pizza: Mike Newton; Priest River Motors: Jerry Allbee; Bubble Boy Boutique, LLC.: Gabrielle Shiflley; and Safeway: Wade Shepherd.
“Me, too!” said grave little Tot. “Yes, Tot may help too,” said mamma. This simple little home was a busy place, and soon every one was hard at work. It was late in the afternoon before the pile of wood, which had been steadily growing all day, was high enough to satisfy Willie, for now there was no doubt about the coming storm, and it would probably bring snow; no one could guess how much,
in that country of heavy storms. “I wish the village was not so far off, so that papa could get back to-night,” said Willie, as he came in with his last load. Mrs. Barnes glanced out of the window. Broad scattering snowflakes were silently falling; the advance guard, she felt them to be, of a numerous host. “So do I,” she replied anxiously, “or that he did
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not have to come over that dreadful prairie, where it is so easy to get lost.” “But old Tim knows the way, even in the dark,” said Willie proudly. “I believe Tim knows more’n some folks.” “No doubt he does, about the way home,” said mamma, “and we won’t worry about papa, but have our supper and go to bed. That’ll make the time seem short.”
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