JANUS 



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JANUS 



IF you gave a rat-tat-tat on the gate and 

 some one like this opened it,, what would you 

 do ? I think you 

 would run away. 



Well, this strange 

 man with two faces 

 was the door-keeper 

 of Jupiter's palace 

 on Mount Olympus. 



His name is Ja- 

 nus. 



He still stands 

 guard at the gateways of the years. 



Every New Year's day at the rat-tat-tat of 

 Father Time, he opens wide the doors of the 

 New Year. 



Then we all enter and are glad. 



We say to each other " A Happy New Year !" 



After we have played a little while, and 

 worked a little while, and may be cried a 

 little while, some of us come out. And then 

 Janus opens for us the door of another year. 



Do you know now why we call New Year's 

 day the first of January? 



