A TALE FOR TABITHA

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 24, 30 December 1927, Page 15

A TALE FOR TABITHA

On Christinas Eve, as ] lay stiil, The shepherd men piped on.the misly iil And the hollices were rustling beneath ny sill, On Christmas Eve as IT lay still. On Chiistmas Eve came out of the night A star to: stare at me, wild and bright. My frosty pane, nry pillow witite, All silver shone in his fairy light. ind silver he spoke to me, three times three, . ; "Coming with spices and. gold,’ le, "Over the hill tops three Kings there ve, And the Shepherds are piping Canie down and See!" » So down the dark stairway, soft crept I, And the star he crept soft down the apurple sky, ' Crept til he stayed him the stable nigh, Where, winter nignt long, the red cows le. And, oll, when the ald byre’s window througis 1 peeped, what F saw tere, gucss never would you. They were knecling, the cows, in the Straw, two by tivo, "But 4. did--] did auess."? said Tabilina Sue a . c 4 . "Professor, what has become «£ Tony Horsham? WWasn’t he studying with the classes last vear?" "Ah, yest Hiorsham, poor teliow! A fine student, but absent-minded in the use of chemicals-very. That ‘discolouration on the ceiling-notice it? "Yes." "Tha’s hint." "Ym not surprised, I always thonght that that boy would make his mark if he got a chance."

~By

Madeleine

Nightingale