CHINA MAIL CHRISTMAS SUPPLEMENT
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I LOVE THE CHRISTMAS CANDLES
I love the Christmas candles
Upon the Christmas tree: They make it very happy,
'Tis rery plain to ser But I love the Little Candle God lighted long age, In a far-of Eastern villaget
Twas the time of frost and
SLOTC
And now again 'tis Christmas, God wants us all-ah, me? To remember that Little Candle
Was set on Calvary's tree.
NURSERY RIMES IN HONG KONG STYLE
THE First Moon brings the New
Year Kay,
Crackers, gifts and fine array. The Second brings the thunder oat, Excited Insects run about.
The Third brings banners red and
yellow,
To ancestral graves they follow. The Fourth Moon brings the
lychees small,
Red and tasty, one and all The Fifth Moon sees a lively race, Dragon Boats glide on apace. The Sixth brings hottest days,
I tow.
The ricksha coolie mops his brow.
The Seventh Moon, the seventh
day,
Star lovers meet on Milky Way.
The Eighth sees Moon Cakes piled
up high,
For midnight feast beneath the
sky.
The Ninth Moon sees the silk kites
£3,
And Chinese climb to places high
The Tenth may bring a typhoon
strong,
Sweeping junks and boats along. The Eleventh Moon brings weather
.cool,
The fishes swim in icy pool.
The Twelfth Moon brings the
street fair gay, With gold-fish, toys and blossom-
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Sing a song of six cents,
A bowl full of rice; Four-and-twenty frog's legs, And ever so much spice.
When the rice - was eaten,
The legs began to dance, The chop-sticks turned a sotner-
wealt
The spice looked or askance.
CHILDREN'S CORNER
IN THE TIME OF QUEEN
ELIZABETH
Mabel was trotting along with her father when he was showing their new country home to a visi- tor. "Do you like the wood-work** asked her father.
itor.
"Very much,” answered the vis
"I love
mahogany ***** doors in contrast to the white paint. Are they solid mahogany?”
"Yes, and hand-made," answered the proud owner, and then be e- larged on some of the features that made his new home specialy at-
active to him..
When the caller had gone, Mabel climbed on her father's knee and said: “Daddy, why are you so proud of these doors? Is solid mahogany better than other wood?”
"Yes, mahogany, is expensive wood, because it must be brought a long way for us. The tree grows near the Bay of Honduras." grows in the forests and black men are sent to eat it down. The tree takes a long time to grow, lenge--- than it takes a little girl like you to grow into an old woman.”
4No wonder you are so fond of our doors,” said Mabel, interested in her Dad's words. "Do you know anything else about the tree?" asked.
"T: believe you are trying to
PAŠEL
L ATTAGL
to England cesurying some boards of the mahogany tree. The brother of that ship's captain was a doctor, and he was building a home for kimse:**
"May I use these boards for my doors?" he asked the captain. like the colour.
"You may,' answered the broth- er; but when the workman tried to use it, they grew angry because the wood was so hard that it ruin- ed their tools. The doors idea was abandoned, both a candle-box was made out of a small piece of the wood
"What a lovely box, said the Doctor's visitors, as he was show- ing them through the house, just as I did to-day. What kind of wood is it made of??
*** ** *Mahogany. /
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"Where did you get it?' they inquired.
From America,' he answered. My brother brought it back
“Who made the candle-box?' was the next question, and before long that cabinet maker had made a little fortune."
When Mabel's father ceased talk- ing, she gave him a liss and thank- ed him for telling her such a lovely story.
if you have some crayons at home try to colour this pic- ture. You will have lots of fun
worm another story out of me, you little-puss," said her father, pinch- ing her cheek lovingly.
"Will you tell me one?" pleaded Mabel.
"It was in the time of Queen Elizabeth," began her Dad, and Six Walter Raleigh was voyaging in America
"Where did he live, and who was he?" asked the child whose knowl- edge of English history was lime ited.
"He was an Englishman and a great traveller in times when taking trips either on land or sen, was fraught with great danger. Paleigh sailed across the Atlantie Ocean and reached Honduras, which is away down at the very end of Mex- ico. Here in a forest he found the
· mahogany, tree, and he got his men to cut down a branch, which he carried back to "Bag'and. His boat met with 's slight mishap and he used the mahogany wood to mend the broken parts. A long time after this another ship came back
VINE CARD
"If this were mounted an a card. The sewing part would not be hard.
CHRISTMAS TEASERS
What gets wet when drying?—A
towel
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What is better than x cake? Two cakes.
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Why is a goat nearly?--Because it is all but
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What never bites with its teeth? --A comb.
When is a sheep like ink?--When
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it I'm a pez.
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When is a cup of tea sad?-When it is upset.
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When is a ship like snow?-When she's adrift.
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What letters know the most — Y's (wise).
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What fish do you find in a bird's cage.A perch.
What
tume makes everybody
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glad?-Good for-tune.
GOODSKI
CHEET
There was an old man of Hong
Kong, Who was smoking a pipe a foot
Long;
A typhoon came one day- His pipe blew away,
And his tears caused a flood is
Hong Kong
The Terrapin
The terrapin lives in a "shack" Which he carries upon his back. Although it's nothing but a shell
It serves the purpose very well
He's safe from fire and other harms, And needs no burglar alarms. Besides, he has no rent to pay. And never dreads the moving day. He has no landlord to dictate Nor to compel him to vacate. He's
SKIE of one thing till he's dead.. And that's a tight roof o'er his head.
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