small spotty dog does make it to the warming fire, where someone gives him a plate of stew and a dish of water. All the other animals have eaten, and surround him in a semicircle. All at once they fall to their knees..even small spotty dog with rheumatiz. It doesn't hurt a bit. The lusty ladies quit their flirtatious behavior, the spirts of present and future are transformed from hags into dignified mature but beautiful female apparitions and the rugby team stops singing one of their songs that makes even the l.l. blush and spontaneously starts to sing the Christmas Rose as only they from the Rhanda?? Valley can sing. The little urchins take the melody and the rugby men do the descant. The Morris team play their tamborines quite vigorously.

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