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🕓 30 декабря 2016 👁️ 1770
«The Legend of the Christmas Tree»
Two little children were sitting by the (1) __________ one cold winter's night. All at once they heard a timid (2) __________ at the door, and one ran to open it.
There, outside in the cold and the darkness, stood a (3) ___________ with no shoes upon his feet and clad in thin, ragged garments. He was shivering with (4) _________, and he asked to come in and warm himself.
"Yes, come," cried both the children; "you shall have our place by the fire. Come in!"
They drew the little stranger to their warm seat and shared their (5) __________ with him, and gave him their bed, while they slept on a hard bench.
In the night they were awakened by strains of sweet (6) __________ and, looking out, they saw a band of children in shining garments approaching the house. They were playing on golden (7) ___________, and the air was full of melody.
Suddenly the Stranger Child stood before them; no longer cold and ragged, but clad in silvery light.
His soft voice said: "I was cold and you took Me in. I was (8) _________, and you fed Me. I was tired, and you gave Me your bed. I am the Christ Child, wandering through the world to bring peace and (9) ____________ to all good children. As you have given to Me, so may this tree every year give rich fruit to you."
So saying, He broke a branch from the fir tree that grew near the door, and He planted it in the ground and disappeared. But the branch grew into a great tree, and every year it bore wonderful (10) __________ fruit for the kind children.
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