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Speaker 1: The golden cobwebs a tail for small children. I am

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going to tell you a story about something wonderful that

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happened to a Christmas tree like this, ever and ever

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so long ago, when it was once upon a time

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it was before Christmas, and the tree was all trimmed

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with popcorn and silver nuts, and named the trimmings of

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the tree before you, and stood safely out of sight

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in a room where the doors were locked, so that

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the children should not see it before it was time.

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But ever so many other little house people had seen it.

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The big black pussy saw it with her great green eyes.

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The little gray kitty saw it with her little blue eyes.

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The kind house dog saw it with his steady brown eyes.

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The yellow canary saw it with his wise bright eyes.

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Even the wee wee mice that were so afraid of

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the cat had peeped one peak when no one was by.

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But there was some one who hadn't seen the Christmas tree.

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It was the little gray spider, you see. The spiders

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lived in the corners, the warm corners of the sunny

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attic and the dark corners of the nice cellar, and

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they were expecting to see the Christmas tree as much

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as anybody. But just before Christmas, a great cleaning up

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began in the house. The house mother came sweeping and

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dusting and wiping and scrubbing to make everything grand and

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clean for the christ Child's birthday. Her broom went into

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all the corners, poke, poke, and of course the spiders

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had to run. Dear, dear, how the spiders had to run.

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Not one could stay in the house while the Christmas

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cleanness lasted. So you see, they couldn't see the Christmas tree.

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Spiders liked to know all about everything and see all

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there is to see, and they were very sad. So

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at last they went to the christ Child and told

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him all about it. All the others see the Christmas tree,

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Dear christ Child, they said, but we, who are so

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domestic and so fond of beautiful things, we are cleaned up.

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We cannot see it at all. The christ Child was

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very sorry for the little spiders when he heard this,

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and he said they should see the Christmas tree. The

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day before Christmas, when nobody was noticing, he let them

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all go in to look as long as ever they liked.

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They came creepy, creepy down the attic stairs, creepy creepy

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up the cellar stairs, creepy creepy along the halls and

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into the beautiful room. The fat mother spiders and the

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old Papa spiders were there, and all the little teeny

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dnty curly spiders, the baby ones. And then they looked

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round and round the tree. They crawled and looked and

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looked and looked. Oh what a good time they had.

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They thought it was perfectly beautiful. And when they looked

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at everything they could see from the floor, they started

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up the tree to see some more. All over the

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tree they ran creepy crawley, looking at every single thing,

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up and down, in and out, over every branch and twig.

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The little spiders ran and saw every one of the

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pretty things right up close. They stayed until they had

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seen all there was to see, you may be sure,

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and then they went away at last, quite happy. Then,

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in the still dark night before Christmas Day, the dear

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christ Child came to bless the tree for the children.

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But when he looked at it, what do you suppose?

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It was covered with cobwebs. Everywhere the little spiders had been,

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they had left a spider web, And you know, they

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had been just everywhere, so the tree was covered from

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its trunk to its tip with spider webs, all hanging

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from the branches and looped around the twigs. It was

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a strange sight. What could the christ Child do? He

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knew that house mothers do not like cobwebs. It would

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never never do to have a Christmas tree covered with those. No. Indeed,

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so the dear christ Child touched the spiders webs and

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turned them all to gold. Wasn't that a lovely trimming?

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They shone and shone all over the beautiful tree. And

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that is the way the Christmas tree came to have

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golden cobwebs on it. End of the Golden Cobwebs by

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Robert Haven Schuffler