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Read'us who have abided
the meandering? of this col
umn over a period of time may
recall that I recently asked for
information about the observ -
ance of Old ChrNtmas in the
Southern Appalachians.
There were no such respon
ses prior to the conventional
Christmas vacation, and I had
about decided that January 6
now means little more than a
day when the December 25
trappings are put away for ano
ther year.
But In the After-Christmas
mail there appeared a letter
and an enclosure from Roy L.
Sturgill of Bristol, Virginia, in
dicating that Old Christmas tas
not been forgotten even if not
observed.
A portion of his letter and
the enclosure follow. If the
latter at first seems ami-climac
tic this far into the new year,
a reading will show that is has
a timeless charnj.
"Dear Mr. Whitener: After
reading your article in the
Bristol paper this morning, I
recalled having a story in one
of my many scrapbooks con
cerning Old Christmas. It vas
written by a very dear friend
of mine: Mr. Henry P. Scalf
of Stanville, Ky., and was
carried in the Floyd County
Times December 24, ! ~*53.
Am enclosing you a copy I
have typed. Thought you
might want to use it in some
future article. "
THE CATTLE LOW
AT MIDNIGHT
The little boy sat upon his fa-
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ther's knee, repeating the stor
ies grandmother had told. He
was four. His leg swung back
and forth, keeping time, it
seemed, to the w;'.xing and wa
ning of youthful talk. It was
long ago, he said, when men
rode camels and fled wicked
kings.
Grandmother had told him
of the birth of the Christ child
how Three Wise Men came
to bring presents. Other stories
too, she told him, of olden
days when there were brownies
and elves and, oh yes, there
was the story of Old Christmas
when the cattle knelt in the
bam and lowed and prayed, for
that was when the Christ Child
was born. He talked on, the
swinging of the leg ceased and
he stared at the Yule fire. He
was soon asleep.
Now there are people who
are grown and pretend to be wise
by not believing the old legend.
Os such was the child's father.
He told him when he was aval ?
again, that only a few of grand-
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mother's stories were true, that
cattle did not kneel on Old
Christmas night to low and
He tried to explain that Old
Christmas was just a day that
older people remembered from
a change in the calendar.
"But Daddy, you said the
story of the Three Wise Men
was true. You said Jesus was
born on Christmas Night. The
Wise Men bowed to the Christ
Child. " The little boy was
puzzled but mostly he thought
that Daddy did not believe
grandmother. That was wrong.
Everybody ought to believe
grandmother.
When Christmas Day was
over the boy was full of wonder
at how Santa had come down
the sooty chimney to leave
such glistening toys. Wonder
yielded to the pleasure of the
nour. Nights he fell asleep on
grand mo theA lap, dreaming of
the Wise Men, and of hearing
the cattle low at the bam. To
him it was not merely twelve
days between Christmas Eve
and Old Christmas. It was an
interlude of play and dreams.
Old Christmas Eve came,
grandmother had gone, and
the child went to sleep, think
ing of her and of how father
did not believe all she had said.
It was wrong, he knew, not to
believe grandmother, she was
so nice and good. Itwas wrong.
Dreamless sleep comes to cher
ubs, be they of earth or sky.
Sometime in the night tin
father, awakened by the patter
of little feet, saw his child ap
proach the outer door and open
it. The moonlight silhouetted
the tiny figure as he stood in
the doorway. The father threw
back the cover, moved along
to stand at the open door with
his little son. The child reach
ed up a chubby hand and they
stood together, staring into
the moonlight.
Down in the valley, in the
pine trees, the moonlight had
yielded to darkness. Down the
slope where the barn housed the
cattle not a stray moonbeam
pierced. They stood in the
doorway, these tow, one older
and wiser, the other a young
chi Id who clasped his father's
finger. Silence reigned in the
moonlight, silence pervaded
the darkness that covered the
bam and trees.
Both tensed with the sound
of a low that came from the
darkness--a soft low that came
from near the barn under the
great pines. The child leaned
forward, staring into the night,
pulling at his father's hand.
"Did you hear it, father, it
is like grandmother said. "
It was strange, the father
thought when he awakened in
the morning, that he did not
remember going back to bed f.f
ter they had stood in the door
way. He thought it must have
been midnight when he heard
the soft low from the barn.
Strange, why he thought itwas
midnight when he had not look
ed at the clock.
THE YANCEY JOURNAL
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Ed Yuziuk -Publisher
Carolyn Yuxiuk- Editor
Patsy Randolph Manager
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