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BIBLIOTHEQU£ DE LA
VILLE DE MONTREAL
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vry) N Clnisiiiias Iuh; 1 sat al»)iu3 lIHlsill,l^^ A magic word
pusstsst'd my thoughts and soon transported me to
dreamland, tlierein to meet a little hand of happy
children — my Hrst ])laymates — merry as of yore.
Then entered my latter found friends to join the
company : and the full chorus of those familiar voices
was, to me, gleefid as a
iLhristmas itarol.
•'"-■'" "T'-ilMl
"In the jjivst'iiec; of friem!-. wi.- tliink uloud" saytf
"Eiueisoti. And siiroly if ever a iniui felt the presence
itf friends it would be at the Yule-tide when on the
i(uiet Siil)batic air of a Christmas Kve conies to him
thoughts of luippy days, of lonii, aj^'o.
Tliat niankiud finds a Paradise in the earlier dawn
ot his ehildliood may be grounds for sujiposing that
the individuid has to hjok to his childhood lor a paiii-
disc : with many, of course, this is not so, but it must
be inie of the majority, else why !;liould we so persist-
ently refer to tlie 'good old times.'
It has Ijeeu said the loss of Santa (.'laus is the loss
of childhood, and certainly tlie rapturous glee of tl
little ones as they dance by ilay and (beam by uigi.»
in expectancy of the Chimney visitant , is 'enough to
convince us that no liappiiiess luore "pure aw;iit.-> matur-
ing vears.
Thrice hh'st niv we, wIk., oh the niention of a mystic
iiaiiic, fiinl oiifsolvcs iislicicd siltnitly into the inner
chanilier r)f luciiKtry lu inert there our (!;irly pliiyiuntes,
ti) see ii-^'iiiii those I'resh yoimt;- f.iei's and once ni(»re to
liiMj,'h over oiir Itoisteroiis sports. Ft is of these i,'ooil
old times of iiidividiiiil e\|ierienee I would like lo tell;
a slory very di'ur lo many luiurts now far seatt(;red :
but then of ;i charmed hrotlierhood, led hy nature and
by nature fed with itiioyant spirits, so that life was one
prolon-^'ed festival, joyous, merry and restless as the
baltlilini; brooks of summ(!r or the fairy sii(»wflake (;ir-
eliu'^in the wintry storm. The stiekleback dartin- from
its (juiet retreat fri,^'hten(!d by our net; tlie minnow
nibblinu; at the bait so tieacherously eoveriiitr the
bended ])in ; the meadow lark, the bobolink, the swallow,
ihe.M! were our toys. Did not the branehtis of the lofty
sweepin.u' (dms shape thenrselves to form our co.sy nests,
and the passinij; winds tune the tender twins, a urand
spolian bar)) to please u.s. Or if the winter took these
from us, t'was but an exolianye; for did we ever tire of
moulding' his cry.stals into the rou'Ji forms of our ehild-
ish fancy. How fearlessly would wo phin.re into the
sea of white wav(!s, whicii gathered round each house
and iiarn and dashed ayainst them till the ict y foam half
way reached the loof.
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Carc'.« passt'd liver iis as tlio scinldiim (iloiuis ; our
joys were imalloyod. Wmv \V(! iioi fico liom all tlic t,oil
of life, which, in oiir imifteeiioe, we C(»iil(l almost con-
ceiv.' In h.. shut out liy 'UiMuii'ts' T()Il-l.ar.s' thai sep-
aratt'il ih IVom ihi? i»iisy titwii.
P.ul wiiat is this word which hears such charms,
let us ii«iw tutu IVoMi oui' reverie and dwell for i luo-
in«Mit on its liisiorv.
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Three ctiiituries ntni n half huve passed since th«
bravo pilot (tf St. Malo steered westward and after many
daysnf fenrless battlin<,' with waves, his stanch hope con-
'juerH. His little iLet stems t'lie f1uw of dur noble
river and for the first time the ears of whitenifn
liear the musie of this word. 'Tliis is tlie mighty
waters of thr "HOCHKLAdAS,"' this is their pn-iid
hiffhway; follow it, 'said the savaj^e,' through the king-
dom of tlie Saj^fuenay, past tlie lofty Staducona, then
come you to the "Vi/litfjc u/ /hi liwnr Mvdows So
did ('artier, till he stood, transti^ured in th(; nndst of ilii-,
awful people, surrounded by primeval wilds. That
ill the personelle of this strange act should have ilisap-
])eared with the death of the di,scoverer is a weird
luid pathetic eiiapter in history.
Years later Malsunneuve eumes with his pious
(!onipany to found the "City of Mary," and through tiiu
changes of many generations the first descriptive title
of the Algonquin is ([uite forgotten. The sacred name of
Ville Marie has past, the Koyal Mount now lend-'
to our fond city a name, and with the ushering in
of a fourth century, we catch the echo of these Indian
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U.^ IV.MirnrLK.Ii l„ ||,„l .ij.pli.nl Ln lIiu Ikmi,.. ..t (nnl.
In I.S2.S wus erected II .siualUml iifiii r.liii.v khuwh
IIS "H.K-hulaya" Chapel, yiuuued iieai Llie (Jms8, ,.|,pu-
sile Si. Mary's Cuiiciii Xeurly twenty years limvever
eia[).se beliae the huaiiLy of the tilln wins ,u»iii-li ;ul-
iidrers u. alluw iis appluMiiun in ihr l,.,i,.,rs whirh
• •lusU-r in the u.^i-hlMHirhoud, ih..u iL liourishes, and
"H.)clielaga"aaer iis U.nv^ >luml.,T .muv m.iv l•ill^rs
j^libly from liie imij^ues of muii.
iWiL fate followed still, i.ud less than ihnir, s<;ore
years sees tin; nana; a,^'ain consigned to ul.liv i.jn. I'ro-
Mivss, Nvilh alter disre-anl to sentunml, spivads tin;
limits of the City, till, hreakino down th.' Imnier of the
Toll-gate, it over-runs the fields aial meadows, plantin-
its piles and erecting as a monument lo all ih,, depart-
ed beauty of nature, the tall smuke-capped obelisk that
niaiks the six day shrine of modern nian.
The little chapel is demolished, i he old Innd uiaiks
tiist disappears and thus again does hisl.ay leo.jid ihr
patibuig iiw.iy ni thi' Deavvi-meauuw' \jlluge.
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1 am sudtlonly .'iiuiisud—Lliu Uhkj i,i luhtupproiiclj-
mg micluigliL, uiul we must haslnii.
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In the .iuloiiui air of the Cathecinil, tj,,- nhur lij/ht.s
are burning bii-htly, incense softly ||,,ii. i„ uilniia
clouds, the murmuring echoes of the masr. j,'(>ntly Icmd the
thought, till, from tlu: lips of trump.is a llurMl of music
l)ursts uiMu the ear, and organ-pipn. „ud t'e«.l, and
string, svv.dl the rich chords as voices |.Mi.||y NJug the
Christmas tidings,
"Gloria in Excelsis,"
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