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BOYS & GIRLS CHRISTMAS PAGES

Journey For Three

A CHRISTMAS STORY BY ANNE BARRETT

OMEONE Awitched off. the light and,' opened the window; moonlight spilled -round the edges of the curtains and into the darkened room. The figure in the bed tossed and then humped up the pillow, turned over again and drew her nose down under the blankets as the cold air reached It. She breathed three times deeply and then was asleep.

Someone tiptoed round the door again to have a look and beckoned to another, who came in with an armful of parcels to put down. Between them they wheeled something large and heavy in through the door and went away. There was silence for a moment, then the three who had been watching inside the room dropped softly down to the floor.

Poter, the black boy, came first, then Monkey, then Andrew. They stood in a row in the moonlight and looked up at the bed.

Peter, the youngest, had roiling boot-button eyes and a crescent-shaped grin that curved up into. his hair; whenever he moved his loose limbs jigged to and fro #8 though he were dancing.

"But she has given us pre- They tralled after. Monkey sents." sald Peter. He never cared to look on the sad side

of life.

Monkey glanced at him in pity."What did she give us last year?" he asked.

"Embroidered dressing gowns our own initial sold

with Andrew.

"And the year before?" "Shoes in our own sizes!" sald Peter proudly and tapped with his own on the floor.

Then open your parcel and Monkey was old, so old that

look," sald Monkey, and the he couldn't

Aven remember when he had

the waited whilst Peter unwrapped to come

the tissue paper. house. He was small and very

"A star сп the Caristmas wizened and his thin legs were

Tree!

One of the decorations cased in tartan trousers: as

Just as I though he had found his long that were left over!

thought. We were forgotten life very surprising his eye-

until the last moment and it brows had risen into two high arches, wrinkling his forehead was all she could firat." Sadly Monkey and Andrew unwrapped up above them,

their own stora and held them Imply by their tinsel strings,

Andrew was a honey-coloured bear. He had held his arms out so often in greeting that one of them had stiffened and now

he could no longer bring It down.

It

Monkey locked at Andrest.

across the slippery hall and mounted each other's shoulders to unlock the front door. They lowered themselves backwards down the front stops and at

last they were out in the street.

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more.

un at in mea-green notice which said "SALLY DAY!" and then blinked and come on again. "SALLY DAY! SALLY DAY! SALLY DAY!"

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a catherine When sell he

was off, leaping and singing and bounding in the air, All the colours of the lights m“ flecting in the blocks of his button eyes. He was too excited to notice when the crowd in front of the other two sudden

ly parted, leaving a free passage to the theatre outside which they were standing.

Sally

Day, the dancer!" cried à voice, and the nome

rustled over the crowd 'like tha wind over grass. "The show's over, she's coming out!" and at that moment she appeared. Her gold hair was as bright: as the shimmering Sountain and her green eyen sparkled with a hundred reflections. Peter, who had given one last, tremendous leap, missed his footing and 'Tell flat on the pavement in front of her, ils stor still clutched in his hand,

used to turn somersaulis "Oh lock!" She turned to her over these rails!" cried Peler, escort. "Someone must bave and lingered to turn just one thrown him to me! A Christmas

present! Oh, isn't be sweet!' "No looking backwardal" mid and she pressed her angers to Monkey firmly, "The question her lips and blow kisses to

the crowd as she stopped

to 15, where shall we go?"

pick him "Where the lights orel!' cried

"He'll up...

be tay 1

he'll bring.me mascot, know Juck! I'll eep him forever and

keep take him with me wherever I the gol" and holding him by arm she pirouetted a few steps with him past where Andrew and Monkey were standing to the door of her car.

Peter.

то a hospital?" suggested Andrew.

Mankey wrinkled

his Up face and thought hard.

"We must get right away first." he said, "or, sure" as bedtime, the postman or milk- man will find us and bring us back." and he started resolutely down the street.

The crowd roared with jode- light and as Peter was borne away dancing in Triumph, the other two saw him wave to bova them The

houses towered

and saw -something fly them like mountains and the out of his hand. and fall ot

like a pavement flowed on

their feet. It was his star and river in the moonlight. Do and as the crowd moved away lighted with the noise that his again after their. favourite, shoes made on the stone, Peter Andrew picked it up and held

was Monkey who spoke "This is the moment," he said danced on ahead of the others. It with his oWD. “

frat. He looked at the heap of parcels and then at the object "Do we go or stay??

Andrew

squared

(upi “ shoulders and spoke deep, his chest.

that stood by the door. He shock his head.

M

"A bicycle," he said, "just as

I feared. That parcel with the sharp edges is

day is done."

a camera.

They looked at each

Our

sadly and nodded their heads.

him

his

from

Monkey · shivered, and look Andrew by the arm

his shadow Jigging cup and down on the lang-posts.

and lights!" he "Dancing

"Seems,quiet without him,” cried, but the others went more he rald, "I can hear singing I think we should go." he slowly, not wanting to miss from the cob of that street

sald gruffly. "Remember Ebbin," u chance, Monkey climbed where the buses are going. They nodded. Ebbin had up to look in through a nursery Shall we go down there too? been the Brother's bear, lad window, but the bed was sur- don't think people would stand other of the nursery when they had rounded by proud-looking toys and sing on a night like this Bral arrived. One could still see who put out their tongues, at if there wasn't a are."

him: Andrew pushed his bose Andrew nodded. They might lying about Dometimes,

think under the doorway of a humbler be singing about his star. A when nobody could where to put him away, but it house, but only to draw it out bus drew up beside them and

the +5 dog in- they jumped up onto the step. was kinder not look, There again quickly was nothing you could say to side snapped at what he thought. Upstairs only!" They clmbed

was a rat,

They

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up among the mounting foot lighted windows "It wouldn't be gay to bo

of e-shop,, but and mon

and sat down gasping, too it was long since closing time; breathless for a moment to, do Ebbin,"

Peter, dancing

with a shudder they possed, by anyth

but. listen. Just in anything ajunk stall full of broken-front of them-a-couple-with-a comfort- would not be

down to three small girl were falking ta to be Ebbin," said Mon- toys marked

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At last they grew tired, and Monkey.

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The couple In front. жего and singing he was making his talking again. Oh, how cold wax one in the more and after it is towards the reddish, glow

How I long to get back the while It began to seen to the beside our big Are!" said others that perhaps

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We pity and what they

couldn't find were looking for there too. Old Monkey only young Tom, as he wanted, they wanted warmth from the frosty don't to make them any

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Monkey started, looked out

"I wish." he began lightly, and o for a toy may have one wish in the whole course of its life time, and one wish only, wish that the may be happy and he fell back on his heels and started tap-dancing again,

Monkey searched through his store of wisdom. "I wish that she may forget us," he said.

"Except just sometimes," said Andrew

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and his wish gone by, As she tossed again in the moonlight and murmured some- thing in her sleep, the first two slole out of the door. For was his birthday and he thought of the window for a moment as moment the finger tips of her he ought to know. He wondered he made up his mind, and then

each other firmly turned round. outflung hand rested, lightly on why people gave

"You come too, he whisper- Andrew's head, then as she presents and hung shiny things turned and drew it in again, he all over the house; why there ed to Andrew. Just Imagine followed the 'others outside.

Was that pleasant, peculiar a house with Ave children feeling in the He knew that They could hardly grow out of it had something to do with us there." star for there were pictures of Andrew shook his head. He Itoh all their.

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that star, and suddenly was after his star. N as he walked down the dark Monkey anwound the string Streets, it seemed to him that of his little one-and, pressed, it this was fils chanco,

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the on the pavement to think. min in orange and purple and green; and gold. Nothing stand ing his mind they had gone While Monkey, had been max- the same for a minute, tho, colour: vanlatiod and changed past the singing place; In the Andrew could still and raced up to the aky, draw distance Ing fountains that glittered and hear the faint sound of the

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