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feld to nuzzie bus mo ver Ad jerk up her geek with his heart asking her the meaning of each new thing he saw
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leisure.y Eve 1200 shoulders bord 10 E sweet grass has mathen would ift her bed shawly and reply. often as not in the same words. "One day you will learn wi
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At Qua ksaver delightest tu plny with the donkey, capere
g Found her and poking at he, rough, soft sides with his head, standing close by sute er like a shadow when then playing was acne The donkey would frisk ant way on her le hooves
The Midnight Belle
A
Christmas Story by Anne
the stand waiting for the next invitation looking 21 Quick silver with gentle eyes, When Kitty rame all this was alterei
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The Conkey had been bought.: for the fauner's children to ride. but they anon grew too leggy for bbydes and far too im- pate.it endure ner JORKING paces. Com the eldest boy' bathday Kitty had appeared the fickl brisk and shining with a glossy new saddle, and from the on the baby, still ta his wolly leggings, was the only one who would scramble up the patient dur coloured flanks and bundle along behind the others.
Birthday morning
That arthday was a morning over to be forgolten.
As the young master trotted and can- fired the new pony round the Feit, Quicksilver threw up his heels exelement and mad wild galloping rushes in all cutections, stopping dead with all four feet planted firm, his
Lit by the soft light from the sky, in sotemu procession the creatures come out, their footsteps muffled in the
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The beasts ahead were passing through the open gates, onto the square of grass in front of the church, Quicksilver slipped in behind his mother and through and horns the swaying backs
front of him he could see nostrils and the white hairs on itle wooden box. smaller even The foal stared on, As the that the wide door of the church his chut quivering When the than the Stallest space where red shape vanished down the was open and that from it a soft saddle was off and the children he'd ever stood between two drive again and the sound of its light glowed out onto the show. had gone home, he timidly ap- trees. Нія mother was with engine died 017 the still air. He tried to push forward but proached the stranger, who was him
another sound come stealing in his mother pressed him back, sunset, After ropping in the
tu Lake its place, that he played with the donkey no more
"A later! Be whinnied K to Kitty in the box on the other side. In the glow of his pride he looked mund for Someone
Kitty's talk was all of som thing splendid and mysterious else to tell 100 and shouted
ללכת
King of the
world
and then it seemed that all the beasts moved backwards
100;
and
flank against shoulder shoulder against Bank, ull there vas a clearing up the cene of the path, towards where the He light shone out.
of
out
That happened when the leaves again this time to the neglected "Mother! What's that?" tured yellow and the first light donkey. Forlor
humble moved restlessly till his head The foal sire.ched his neck to frosts silvered the ground; when the answer came faintly back was near to hers, his ears gee and his mother's breath was men put on scarlet coals and from across the Aelds.
pricked forward, The sound warm in his car. Bude away over the country;
on, echoing across the
"This is
the birthplace Traping walls and hedges and Donkeys may out in the win frostbound earth and through your King, my son."
ditches as they went. She would fer!" said Kitty scornfully, "t the wintry trees.
Eagerly he Liretched sniff the full sumine air as she only we who have splendid
"Hels," said his mother. further, and then with a sudden "poke. as though she could stables where the wind doesn't
"Bells for the king?" asked short drew back, Could that be imagine the scent of frost on il bicw, and have bundles of hay Quicksilver: It seemed to him it? He looked again. There in already.
and oats brought to us instead that only for a king could there the doorway of the porch it of crouting on the frozen grass." be such a lovely sound,
& ood, made lovingly from wood For just a moment Quicksilver For the King of the World," ami straw, no paince, but panion bul thought sadly
old com- sul his mother, and he looked stable like his own. soon his thoughts at her amazed. went flying off again
Where does he live? ver see
him?"
Wild with excitement the foal was away and across the field to ask his mother; she stopped cropping and raised her head
"Hunting! "she said, and bee eyes lenked far away, for once.
when his own horse was lam
of his
Shall
There was even a manger, he
could see it quite plain, as well as the plaster figures that leant Every so often now the young
"In the earth and the sky, in over it, familiar people, shep- muster would come down in his
and lambs. some black coat and little hai men at beast," and then she herds, with crooks
A great feeling of comfort her old words, the master had Laken her and he and Kitty would ride of what buck to
There was a "Perhaps you'll be
to the meet, to come back in the nigh: you will learn wis. flowed into him.
horse there, and a donkey and a hunter one day, my son, fe evening full of tales of glory.
dom, my son."
It'
the where was (x, Bul your father was a racehorse, the Once the whole field of riders that he heard
two days was
King? best one in England."
and hounds met in front of the fa
bunting too.
"one
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later the bells again, the snow Leden
Do donkeys go hunting?" the farmhouse and Quicksilver. They rang ric rang. feal asked his new friend. An early broke his neck straining fire from one village and then skittered a few steps backward to see the scarlet coats and the
Brother, ratik as the
Kitty blew scornfully lov nostrils
Leading the
animals
downing horses. Even his mother Idren came laughing up the stretched out her head heside ve with branches of holly, tiem and neighed wistfully as and rang as the red sutt went Arching his neck he looked
"Donkeys"""; he sait. "Donker they all moved off. emmatie in carry loads!" an i Trota then on nobody but las baby ever louised at the douk s
1 all. Ever ho, as the splendea
of a new birthday anpmachen.
Measuring himself
there he
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obey the
Low. They were ringing as into the manger searching peene cams in the dusk with among the gold, familiar hay. lanters to sing in front of the And
saw Him, the house and ringing as the Kine who from us of all the st of them went home and the world had chosen to be born in lights in the houses went out his stable, in his manger. With ew as proud as Quicksilve
a wild by one
whinny he tried to and at last there came an evens
From then or be spent many
Why do they ring so much?" canter forward. Tag when
stratiet day! hours measuring himself against sked Quicksilver impatiently, tremendous impulse of love that theruch die ing gress in the door of his stable, anxiously awing the ground and snorting drove him on. but st his breeches and insisted on beus watching the size of his slowly th his breath hung in silvery mother presed him back, look- hoisted up on Killy when the increasing brofmarks in the soft wreaths on the air, for there ing along the way they had
earth by the door, looking for was a strange feeling of excite- ronie. the silver baits that came thick- ment about. er and thicker through his lead coloured coat.
others had their turn.
That
desolate donkey'
night.
as Quicksilver stood by his mather
Of course! How could be be The bull in his pride
cow.
For the King of the World's first? birthday,
answered his mother must lead or the beautiful Jer- nd looked at her son,
the proud strong ** hunters on whom the King "It must have been splendid place where He was At last he saw.
very might ride; which would it be? bigger even than the all made of
On the days when there was De hunding there was Always
mas er to look at, working born. .he
tu master's,
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in
1 ht
surely
It seemed the yard.
Her little hooves clipping the moonilght, the donkey lifted her that he must be lord of every- The foal whinned with excite. shaggy in the winter nights, the Quicksilver, watching mystified, gold! Shall I ever see that?" trodden snow, her cont growT heavy hear and braved, a lone thing, of the sacks of grain that ment.
ly, desolate, discordant
which echoed to the sky.
cry
were brought and emptied at his
-What a stupid, ugly, vulgar direction, of the cows and sheep The
noise!" said Quicksilver
on that were led by for his trupec- ceitedly to the mare, and tried ton, of the birds that were held out his silvery whinny.
Most From up for him to examine. scruss the moonlit cow parsley wonderful of all was the strange Kitty answered back.
little dub colured donkey came slowly between them.
night for Bending her knees in the snow wisdom
machine that lived in another "Tonight you will learn stable in the yard and which, at wisdom, my son," and the mare marked "There will cool a night a touch of his finger, would went back to her hay. when you will learn wisdom, spring into quivering life and my son. said his mother, and bear him away. she pushed him away. As she
passed by the donkey that night "Is he king of the earth?"
Quicksilver saw that she blew the foul asked his mother. gently at
the long and tousled
ears.
The sweet hay lengthened and
She shook her head,
she bowed her head before the King of the World,
For a moment she knelt there, The black
where UTUES he had chosen to ride plain ирол hez back, and then slowly, ane by. The show stopped falling and one, the host of beasts went the stars came out in the sky: down behind her. Heavy, and. as the bells rang on the excite awkward they knelt and for a ment that was abroad in the moment the star shoe full on farmyard grew and Quicksilver their know that no creature slept swaying to
"Bowed backs / The
their feet again As he stared at the glittering silently plodded
he
bull's
heard noises and
home.
The goosefeather snow
whirt
Tub
sky "Not even of England, but stirrings wil round him, clucking ed out of the cky once more was cut all round them, the corn just of this farm."
and gabbling of hens and geese, filling up footstep and cart turned slowly to gold and then
QuicksEver marvelled,
then the
quick impatient and track; when the former's was cut ton and the sheaves quickly forgot,
for the very snort; lowing of cattle in their children looked out on Christmas stocked in the flelds till
they next day the hunt was to meet sheds and the farm dog's soft morning the path was unbroken looked like regiments of march- at the farm again and once panting; the fight and ruffling white, as though nothing had
It ever trodden 1.
innumerable birds,
As his rolling, anxious eyes looked out at the sky he saw
Ing men: the mysterious, the exciting season that Kitty talk- he could compare himself of
with the wonderful creatures, seemed as if the whole world ed about was approaching. Sud- to see if he had grown.
were waiting. For what? denly one morning when the blackberries were purple and the bushes white with cobwebs the pony galloped up with fire In her eyes, her nostrils wide and quivering
"Smell!" she snorted, and
as
Goosefeathers
Floating
WHY THE
that it lightened; there was something that glowed upon the far horizon and then rosé behind the naked trees to shine in the heavens. It was a star,*
CHIMNEY?
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But when the next day came brighter than any that had Quicksilver spread out his de- and he wolte in the morning, been in the sky before. As heHILDREN in Britain go ficate velvet.
the faint his nose
eyes clear tang of frost came stealing astonishment.
follow
opened wide in locked at it a strange wit to bed early on Christ--
The ground had longing filled him, ta turned to solid silver and these knew not what noe where.
something, to go somewhere that
How mas Eve. For they expect kindly old Father
in.
"I'm to take the young master air
was full of things that he
to
the first meat" said Kitty, looked like goosefeathers, float- Suddenly, as if the dawn had Christmus will come riding
and the foal was wild with envy ing and circling down. Had the come, the farmyard cock started over the roof-tops in his From then on he nibbled at the fox been grass all day so that he might again? He whinnied in sur- signal, all round him the heavy reindeer; and that he will
as though at a back in the yard to crew and,
sleigh drawn by his magic grow faster, and galloped up prise.
doors swung open, door
doors
and down the meadow strengthen his lanky legs. From
· -
stable and byre and stye; the slide quietly down the
"Snow," said his mother, and great door of the yard
his new height as he passed he moved further back into the them. Lif by the soft beyond chimney into their bed noticed for the first time the warm depths of the stable. The the sky, in solemn procession rooms, carrying on his back. two black stripes that lay across young master came out in his the creatures came cut, their his sack of gifts. And he the donkey's back and whinnied ordinary clothes and gave, Kitty footsteps muffled in the snow will pop one of those gifts
derision. Swinging her
The a dispirited pat on the nose,
great
bull swung his heavy into every stocking that is clumsy head, the donkey looked
shoulders as he padded down up sadly.
Winter Quarters
The goosefeathers stopped the drive, the cows plekced their hung up ready for him at falling, and for a week the frost way behind him; sheep and pigs the foot of the bed
and all the inhabitants of the held, turning the straws that d
farmyard lay in the yard to stiff little dog
followed offer
with
The legend of Father Christ- mias goes back to the good Quicksilver bishop and 'Sairit, Nicholas, who
Mved over 1,000 years ago. behind.
the
bars of gold, dying like sliver at their heels, far along the gates and walls. followed close
It was on one of these days into the drive, pust.
mother, through
the young master trotted off, beloved
huntsmen's
the gate and But why does he come in down
dates from
The frosty weather brought that the foal saw a splendid field where he'd played in sum believe that this
the long the chimney? Many people other changes too, and on the machine sweep up the drive mer, cut of the big gates and very moulent days in Britain. very same day that Kitty and to the house, red
like his down to the village, while from 2,000 years before the birth of the master came into the field decorated with letters and with softly down the lands, joined Holes In the ground, and the coats, all sides newcomers, padding Christ; when people lived in jat evening, bringing two of thé
the a golden crown, hands with him. Slowly they closed round the and
Karm
the procession,
"Does it belong to a king?" Towards the
his mother, waving their arms he asked his mother,
and making strange noises, Hi
terior drove Quicksilver straight
into
"To the king of England,"
a comer and into the arms end the mare, and be watched
of the misster. Then, before he as the postman got down from
Down the
church
bilont road and
only entrance was through a hole in the root of boughs and bushes. The holes or påta have been found, in various parts of Britain, and discovvaržos” in... metin. around them have enabled, ex
of porta to build a ploture the life ived in those for off But the children of Britain
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realised what was happening, in the van and the children carne past the chuttered houses they rupe was slipped over his head running out to get their parent, went, towards the little church days,
Carrying them there was a man bokling
piled high from whione tower the bell was away ghall. I see
ringing on and on naistently the legend. To the ue ones Only if you become a clam- while above it shone the star. tamil to letal truthit hunter and are ridden in And then the bullatopred they hang ugh their lock on
in their orma. Magorė “đzymu ringlug, 'only' chó bell how don't worry about the origin >>L)
and
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the end of 1
te you've got Fing little unter coming on here uld the man.
vy se sdtwitom for that of the timing footsteps in nondence in Father
son; it takes heart and there was no sound soudept. Cimetmag love with con late
"Just look at the shoulders" blon
and Quicktivererin in such a quivar of pride that he never and
s
noticed how he was led frite Vithet e mand before but
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