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T HE angel’s name was Rosy. Most ,, T , , , ... . ... , 
* “ l’eace ana good-will, good-will to 
days she was iust an ordinary little , „ ... . , ., , , , 
. j j j men! Might it not be a message to 
girl, but on Christmas eve she was to be , . „ „ , ,, ... , . , 
H him? Perhaps after all he had been rash 
an angel. Nate Downey brought her to ...... m , 
n j n and hasty with Tom; lorn was a good 
the door, and then went on to his brother TT .. . . 
man. He would see him again to- 
Tom’s. He had some business to talk 
morrow. 
over. Tom’s women folks would be at 
the church to-night; it would be a good The voice came a ? ain ’ a little nearer : 
chance surely it was a voice, a child’s voice, and 
The'church was all trimmed with there was the sound of a sob in it—it was 
wreaths of evergreen and festoons of R° s y s voice! 
cedar, with mottoes and silver stars. Nate Downey hurried on. The wind 
There was a mysterious green curtain tossed the snow in his face, clouds were 
across one end of the platform, and now drifting up from the west, and blotting 
and then a young lady peeped from be- ou t the stars. 
hind it with a very important face. He called finally across the field, 
Rosy was all wrapped up in a great fur “Rosy! Rosy!” the wind caught the 
cloak, but, oh ! what a radiant white name as it left his lips and tossed it 
vision was hidden under that cloak ! Be- away. 
cause, as I said, Rosy was to be an angel, The kttle voice sang no more. Only 
and it was Christmas eve. the w j n( j kept up its swift minor swell, 
1 he church was full of happy people. an( j W ent on heaping little mounds in the 
She nestled down quietly in a corner, her corners. A great fear was in his heart, 
part would not come for a long time. j[ e ca.llecl again. Oh then! whence came 
By and by she fell to wondering about the little vo i C e that cried sobbingly, 
the Christmas angels—if they would come n p a p a 0 h p It pa!” 
to-night across the fields. She had a TT . . . ... 
® ... , .... He sprang forward eagerly, calling 
great mind to go and see. She could slip . . . . . ,. ,. ..... 
, ° . again and again, and each time the little 
out of the little door behind the curtain . , .... , , , , , . , . 
, voice answered, till at last he had his 
and nobody would know. ..... . . . . . . .. 
, own little daughter in his arms; the little 
So she gathered her fur cloak around . , . . , . ,, , 
, , , . . , Christmas angel who had come through 
her and slipped out into the snow. It , , . .... „ 
... ..... ... the snow to him with her message oi 
was so white and still out there ; the 
stars shone down at her : she was not P eace ‘ 
afraid. The fields stretched away before Nate Down ey stopped a minute at the 
her in wide, white silence, and she went door of the church to let them know, 
away through a little hollow and across H° s y was asleep in liis arms; she 
a pasture field. It was growing cold an d stirred a little ’ half wakened by the 
she shivered under her fur cloak, but she Ti ^ hts and voices ’ and murmured drowsily 
did so want to see if the angels came. the words of her Christmas song. 
She wondered if there would be any “ Peace and good-will, good-will to 
little girl angels like her, and if she would men ! ” dorothy deane. 
hear them sing. She wondered which 
way they would come, and which was the Among friends sufficiently intimate to 
star the wise men followed. Maybe if allow of such offerings, why not a pair of 
she knew she might follow it too, and gloves, an embroidered handkerchief, a 
find the little Christ-child, for had not set of toilet brushes, an umbrella, some- 
they told her that he was on earth thing for actual use, and thus escape both 
still ? That one great star in the east, the danger of turning parlors into bric-a- 
could it be the one ? It was so bright brae shops and the sin of wasting money? 
she would follow it and see ? It must be Guard religiously this matter of Christ- 
nearly time for the angels to come. mas giving from any taint of the baser 
Presently she began to wonder which motives. Money, so powerful for good, so 
way she had come. The fields were wide needed in every charitable work, who that 
and white about her, rising winds lifted stops to think what Christmas means has 
tiny whirls of snow and twisted them the heart to waste it upon useless trifles ! 
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