A SAD CHRISTMAS STORY by HENRY VAN DYKE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 24 December 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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A tired wandering shepherd seeking redemption from his sins is befriended by strangers in the desert who send him to Bethlehem to witness a miracle.
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| 0:00.0 | Hayes Catering is a small company run by two brothers selling food at festivals |
| 0:06.9 | across the UK but when COVID struck the plug was pulled on live events. |
| 0:15.0 | To help fill the gap, Barclays provided them with a loan so they could diversify their business. |
| 0:20.5 | And now that live music is back, |
| 0:25.0 | So a Hayes catering. Grow your business. |
| 0:27.0 | Bank on Barclays. |
| 0:28.0 | Search Barclays business banking. The Welcome back everyone to 100 one classic short Stories and Tales. This is your host |
| 1:05.1 | John Haggadorn. Today the Sad Shepherd, a Christmas story by Henry Van Dyke. |
| 1:12.1 | Part 1. Darkness |
| 1:15.0 | Out of the Valley of Gardens, |
| 1:17.0 | where a film of new fallen snow lay smooth as feathers on the breast of a dove. |
| 1:21.0 | The ancient pools of Solomon looked up into the night sky with dark |
| 1:25.8 | tranquil eyes wide open and passive, reflecting the crisp stars and the small round moon. The full springs overflowing on the |
| 1:36.4 | hillside melted their way through the field of white in winding channels and |
| 1:40.8 | along their course the grass was green even in the dead of winter. But the |
| 1:47.6 | sad shepherd walked far above the friendly valley in a region where ridges of |
| 1:51.6 | gray rock welted and scarred the back of the earth like wounds have |
| 1:55.8 | half forgotten strife and battles long ago. |
| 2:00.1 | The solitude was forbidding and disquieting. The keen air that searched the wanderer had no pity in it, and the myriad glances of the night were curiously cold. |
| 2:11.2 | His flock straggled after him. The sheep, weather beaten and dejected, followed the path with |
| 2:17.2 | low heads nodding from side to side, as if they had traveled far and found little pasture. The black, loppier goats leaped upon the rocks, restless and ravenous, tearing down the tender branches and leaves with the dwarf folks and wild olives. |
| 2:33.0 | They reared up against the twisted trunks and crawled and scrambled among the boughs. |
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