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Their only child, a son, was irt the service and it'would be months before he could come home. His lovely wife and her three small children were in the “North". The children, as usual, had planned to spend Christinas in die “South” With heir grandparents. They talked to everyone, from one year to the next about “going down South to spend Christmas with grandfather and grandmother”. Grand-' father was a great pall, just their age.
When they read in he papers about the terrible storm along the coast.and all the bridges washed out, their distress was pathetic. Their mother brought them a measure of comfort by rjsninding them that Grandmother and grandfather lived on 'high ground’ and that the terrible flood that had brought so much/distress to many, hadn’t reached their little home.
“But”, said the-oldest of the three, “The paper said that all the roads and bridges had been washed out How will Santa Claus get there?”
The mother hesitated, “I know” chimed in the youngest of them, “I know”, her face showing no worry whatsoever, “Grandfather will fix those old bridges in no time. He can fix anything—he dois for us”.
“Right,” chimed' in the middle one, “Grandfather can fix anything in the whole wide world.” The oldest boy was convinced, and they, all three started packing to “go- down' South ‘for Christmas.”
It was Christmas Eve at “(High Ground.” The little Christmas tree had been trimmed; grandfather had read fromfthe Gospel of St. Luke—“Apd, lb, the Angel of
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