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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1952.
COOKING THE GOOSE
D
UMPLING, followed by Peter and `Joan,
cach carrying a bulging stocking.
popped their heads round the door.
CHRISTMAS SHORT STORY.
BY CLAIRE MOORE
"Who said anything about
"My first Christmas
dinner!
"Bags I," said Dumpling, "I'm jolly good' at arranging flowers
and crackers and things
"Pooh," said Peter. "Well, bags I DON'T wash up, then."
"We must all holp, except elded Mra Perkins.
not having the goose?" Bald Walt un I tell the girls at the Joan; she's done her share," de-
"Merry Christmas" his Mother. shouted the children.
"Oh, Mummy, do let me "Merry Christmas,"
"cook it?" pleaded Joan." Mother replied their sleepily; but Mr Perkina only grunted and over in bed.
flying
"Well, it's no good expect turned ing Cook to do anything if she's got one of her turns," sighed Mrs Perkins. "Let's go and look in the larder." The family trooped down stairs, with the exception of Mr Perkins who turned over for another snooze.
Dumpling took a leap and landed on the hump under the blankets. "Wake up, Daddy, it's Christmas morning," she said..
"I don't hear Cookle about," said their Mother, as the children delved into their stockings, and brought
In the larder everything out one exciting thing after was in apple-ple order: the the other. As she spoke pudding tied up in a snowy there was a tap on the door, cloth, jellies and a trifle and there stood cook, her standing ready to eat a head wrapped round in a huge Iced cake in one tin, thic woollen scarf.
while there were rows and rows of crisp mince pies in another.
"You'd
"I am busy," ad Mr Perkins, ag must get out Mummy's
cookery class!" she said.
kitchen, the only sounds were It was very quiet in the warm those of the kettle singing on the hob, and the striped cat purring present," on the hearth, Joan had just succeeded in stuffing the goose and popping it in the oven when the kitchen door opened."
"Why, Cookie, you gave
quite a fright!" said Joan;
"Do you mean to say you me, haven't given. Mummy her present yet?" said Dumpling and Peter,
Coolt, dressed now in her best hat and coat, stalked into
out with the others," she map- ped.
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the room. "I thought you'd gone explained Mr Perking.
"It's a very special present,"
"Why is it special?" demand- ed Dumpling; But her Father Wita too busy runimaging through his desk to reply, grow-
"I'm cooking the Chebstmas dinner" explained Joan
"What?" shouted Cook, She ing more and more frantle, as strode to the larder and he tossed one pile of papers after open the door. "Where's the other to the floor.
stuffing?" she demanded.
flung
that
"Inside the goose, of course!"
ughed Joan.
Cook turned suddenly pate, then turned and almost run from the room. Joah heard her hurry upstairs, then the sound of doors
almost think slamming. "Merry Christmas all," Cookie knew she was going she said glumly
"IS anything wrong?" asked Mrs Perkins.
"It's me nooralgia, Mum,” aaid Cook.
"You'd better pop back to bed and Joan will bring you some breakfast," suggested Mrs Perkins,
to have neuralgia," said Joan. "What's this funny looking stuff?"
"That's the stuffing for the goose... Cook certain- ly HAS thought of every- thing."
"But, I'd much rather have done It all myself." grumbled Joan.
"I do hope the stuffing is co- Ing to be all right," thought Joan.
"It's gone!" he shouted.
Another
"You can buy me after Christmas," said Mrs Perkins,
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"But I only buy diamonds once, in a lifetime," said her husband' sruly.'.
"Diamonds?" gasped Mra Perkna. Her husband nodded.
"Children," she said, "Pick up all these papers, and let's have: dinner. Daddy, you go and help Joan bring the things in."
'Peeping out into the hall she "And afterwards we can all Bow Cook hurry downstairs play 'Hunt the diamonds," seid again, this timo carrying a large Mr Perkins. Mrs. Perkins tried suitcase, which she thumped to laugh, but she really felt too crossly on each step as sho descended.
"But
what about 'your
As Cook waddled back to
"Well, you shall cook the neuralgia?" said Joan. her room, Peter said "What goose," laughed her Mother. Cook glared at her. Then she about the Christmas goose? "We will all go out and play opened the front door and was We must have the goose! In the snow, and come back bone, moving, in spite of the -suit case, faster than Joan had
It won't seem a bit like "when it is all ready. Per- ever seen her move before. Christmas if we have to eat haps I'd better stuff it for things like cold salad."
meat and you?" But Joan shook her to key" said Mrs Perkins, when "Now, there is only the table head.
the family returned.
Only The Old Celebrate
Christmas In Russia
upset to eat.
Take my share to Cookic," she said. "Sho must have some of this excellent goose, neuralgia or no."
Jo:. looked up from her plate." "Oh, but I forgot," she said. "Cookie's gone."
Perkins. "And what did she take "Has she indeed," shouted Mr
with her?"
Joan turned rather pink, "It seemed a bit odd. She went off with her suitcase," she said.
"And your brooch was in it, no doubt," groaned Air Perkins.
"Why, have you lost a brooch, Mummy?" asked Jean, who had ONLY the old celebrate Eating the Christmas meal- But it took the Communists been bury in the kitchen when Christmas openly in there were never any parti- twenty years to realise that the the present had been missed. Russia those who
cular Christmas dishes liko tur- old' traditions
"I thought it was Cookie's," she die hard. The added. She slipped her hand ΠΟ key or plum-pudding often people just could not do with into her pocket and heid out a longer care about their had 0 religious significance, out their Christmas festivities, future. Others--must-be-loo. The meal was sometimes so in 1930-It was decided to small-glittering brooch. Mr-Per- more careful. If they hope taken from a table covered with hold them on New Year's Day, kins took it from her.
hay, symbellsing the manger a purely secular occasion. It is where Christ was born.
on this day that Christmas trees are seen in the public squares of Moscow.
to get on in their careers, they cannot afford to offend the powers that be-and to believe in the meaning of Christmas, even to go to church, can dog a man for life.
Some of all this remains to- day at Christmas but deep inside the homes of a Yew
There is Russian families.
по of the day. In fact, the outward signs have been transferred on the
publie observanco
"There you are, my dear. And merry Christmas to you...but I don't see how it came to be in the kitchen: Was it on the Noor?"
Joan shook her head. It was in the funniest placel she laughed. "I nearly pricked my For the same reason the full self with it. That's what made me think it was Cookle's, you back in 1943: the Russian army 500, but she went off so quickly would not fight without it, as I never had time to ask her........ This transfor reveals the the early part of the war had candles glitter on the
"Where significant weakness • of the proved The Church and Christ-
was it?" chorused Christmas tree in the free Communist regime, The Russians mas in some form have to be Peter and Dumpling. - world, men behind the Iron are spiritual people. with tolerated by Stalin, however
of "It was mixed in with the Curtain are at their desks ancient roots in history. Lenin unwillingly, proof alone
thought he could change all this their age-old influence on the stung," said Joan,
"But, of and factory benches. For overnight by introducing a New, people, In such influences les course. I never thought they Christmas in Russia is Order.
Russia's eventual salvation, ** were DIAMONDS!" normal working day.
Christmas is not banned Kremlin's orders to the New Patriarchic church was brought by Stalin; like the Church, Year.
it is simply ignored. While
It was not alwaya ró. There were once Christmas traditions like ours. The Christmas tree was brought to Russia by the German wife of Czar Paid in the 18th century, about the time Queen Charlotte is said to have Introduced it into King-
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Father Christmas was
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But the secular · celebration Christmas #38 always dominated by the sacred, In the four weeks at Advent, no meat or eggs would be enteri, and on Christmas Eve a tolai Cast was observed until the coming of the first star.
The fretstar signalled' tho birth of Christ, and the festivity began. Children" and "choirs would go. carol singing in the stroolas, erdh each, group would carry a bright star high on a pole. After
Mast Oh Christmas Day, the priests, from the 'church. Would, viskivarti family In the perish, going inekle to soy-prayers ·"beside Win Ilona und blessing the haitse.""
JOHNNY HAZARD
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