W. H. D. Rouse

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Through the Looking Glass · Christmas Miscellany 2023 - Various · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

yes said the lamb i too shall have what i want for i shall have brought them all together again and made each one happy then a dove fluttered down from a tree and landed on the ground beside the lamb and very timidly and softly she cooed take me too king lion as the present for the owls and the hawks and the weasels and the minks because for them a lamb is too big i am the best present for them

take me king lion then the lion roared see what the lamb and the dove have done my food o tigers and leopards and wolves and eagles and all your kind is like your food but i would rather eat nothing from our christmas tree than take this lamb or this dove for my present

then all the beasts kept still because the lion roared so loud and angrily and the birds that were flying away settled on the branches of the trees and the gazelles stopped their running and turned their heads to listen and the rabbits peeped out through the grass and brush where they had hid

then the lion turned to the pig and roared see this lamb and this dove are you not ashamed for what you've done you have spoiled all our happiness will you take back your choice you pig or do you wish to ruin our christmas tree

said the pig it is my right i want something good i don't care for your lambs and your doves i want my swill then the lion roared again have all chosen and all answered yes then said the lion it is my choice and all said it is i love fat and tender pigs i choose a pig for my christmas gift roared the lion

did you ever hear a pig squeal oh how that pig squealed then and he got up on his fat little legs and tried to run away but all the animals gathered round in a ring and the hyenas laughed and the jackals cried and the dogs and the wolves and the foxes headed him off and hunted the poor pig back again

then when the pig found that he could not run away he lay down on his back with his feet in the air and squealed with all his might oh i don't want this will oh i don't want this will i take it back i don't want anything

but at first no one heard him because all were talking at once in their own way barking and growling and roaring and chattering but by and by the lion saw that the pig was squealing something so he roared for silence and then they all heard the pig squeal out that he did not want any swell and the lion roared aloud you have heard has the owl recorded that the pig will have no

yes said the owl then said the lion record that the lion wants no pig then the tiger growled and i want no calf and one by one the leopard and the eagle the wolf and the fox the hawk and the owl all their kind took back their votes

and so it came about that the animals did have a christmas tree after all but instead of hanging lambs and doves upon the tree they agreed that they could hang little images of lambs and doves and other birds and animals too perhaps and by and by the custom spread until the humans came to hang the same little images on their trees too

and when you see a little figure of a lamb or a dove on the christmas tree you may know that it is all because the lamb and the dove by their unselfishness saved the animals from strife for neither thought what he wanted from the tree but each was ready to give himself for the others so that they might not fight and kill one another at the christmas time

was it not cruel of the wolves and tigers and leopards and foxes to wish to eat the doves and sheep and rabbits and hares but after all the worst one of the lot i think was the pig for the pig began the trouble because he only thought of what mr pig wanted for himself

and do you know i think that after all that is the trouble everywhere we can get along all right if the pig will only keep away for when the pig comes and begins to think what he can get for himself without thinking of the pleasure and the comfort of any one else why then the fun is all spoiled and pretty soon all sorts of bad tempers and bad passions are let loose end of part six

part seven of a christmas miscellany twenty twenty three by various authors the worker in sandalwood by marjorie lowrie christie

i like to think of this as a true story but you who read may please yourselves siding either with the cure who says hyacinthe dreamed it all and did the carving himself in his sleep or with madame i am sure that hyacinthe thinks it true and so does madame but then she has the cabinet with the little birds and the lilies carved at the corners m le cure shrugs his patient shoulders

but then he is tainted with the infidelities of cities good man having been three times to montreal and once in an electric car to st anne he and madame still talk it over whenever they meet though it happened so many years ago and each leaves the other forever unconvinced

meanwhile the dust gathers in the infinite fine lines of the little bird's feathers and softens the lily stamens where madame's duster may not go and the wood aging takes on a golden gleam as of immemorial sunsets that pale red wood heavy with the scent of the ancient east the wood that hyacinth loved it was the only wood of that kind which had ever been seen in terminaison

pierre laurillade brought it into the workshop one morning a small heavy bundle wrapped in sacking and then in burlap and then in fine soft cloths he laid it on a pile of shavings and unwrapped it carefully and a dim sweetness filled the dark shed and hung heavily in the thin winter sunbeams pierre laurillade rubbed the wood respectfully with his knobby fingers

it is sandalwood he explained to hyacinth pride of knowledge making him expansive a most precious wood that grows in warm countries thou great goblin smell it imbecile it is sweeter than cedar it is to make a cabinet for the old madame at the big house

thy great hands shall smooth the wood nigaud and i-i pierre the cabinet-maker shall render it beautiful then he went out locking the door behind him when he was gone hyacinth laid down his plane blew on his stiff fingers and shambled slowly over to the wood

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