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Day they assembled very jollily. The earlier courses were eaten with fizz, etc. Now comes up the principal dish, which being uncovered displayed a fine cooked turkey. Trimble was a good-natured fellow, so you may easily foretell what followed. Who stole the turkey? The echoes of their laughing, intertwining shadows reply "Who-o-o ?"
CHAPTER XXXIX.
MY FIRST CHRISTMAS DINNER IN
VICTORIA, 1860.
BY D. W. H.
" ASK and it shall be given you ; seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened."?Matt. 7: 7, 8.
On the 22nd day of December, 1860, nearly fifty-
three years ago, I sat in the editorial room of the
Colonist office on Wharf Street, concocting a leading
article. Mr. Amor De Cosmos, the able editor and
owner, had contracted a severe cold and was confined
to his room at Wilcox's Royal Hotel, so the entire work
of writing up the paper for that issue devolved upon
me. The office was a rude, one-story affair of wood. It
had been erected for a merchant early in 1858, and
when he failed or went away the building fell into Mr.
De Cosmos' hands. On the 11th December, 1858, Mr.
De Cosmos established the Colonist, which has ever
since filled a prominent and honorable position in
colonial journalism. Our office, as I have remarked,
was a rude affair. The accompanying picture will con-
vey a better idea of its appearance than anything I
might write. The editorial room was a small space
partitioned off from the composing room, which con-
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