them? Those angels have come back again. They are singing now
behind the tree."

And some say that it was true; but others say that it was only
Gregor and his companions at the lower end of the hall, chanting
their Christmas hymn:

"'All glory be to God on high.
And to the earth be peace!
Good-will, henceforth, from heaven to men
Begin, and never cease.'"






A FRENCH TAR-BABY

BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS


The fable was one of the first tributaries to the stream of story-
telling. Primitive man with a kind of fine democracy claimed
kinship with the animals about him. So Hiawatha learned the
language and the secrets of birds and beasts,

"Talked with them whene'er he met them,
Called them Hiawatha's Brothers."