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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. / i 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. He 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 \ Svll.tM.s, ;ll..l llnwlitl,,,.^,,,, ,1,;,, i|,„ ,,,„,,| ,,,,.,,,,, ,^^^ 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. f'l I 1 am sudtlonly .'iiuiisud—Lliu Uhkj i,i luhtupproiiclj- mg micluigliL, uiul we must haslnii. * >i= * * ;jj * 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," , ftj o