Down the Snow Stairs

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Alice Abigail Corkran. Down the Snow Stairs

Down the Snow Stairs

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. CHRISTMAS EVE

CHAPTER II. KITTY AND JOHNNIE

CHAPTER III. DOWN THE SNOW STAIRS

CHAPTER IV. NAUGHTY CHILDREN LAND

CHAPTER V “TO DADDY COAX’S HOUSE.”

CHAPTER VI. DADDY COAX

CHAPTER VII. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREAM

CHAPTER VIII. PICTURES IN THE FOG

CHAPTER IX. LOVE SPEAKS

CHAPTER X. IN THE WOOD

CHAPTER XI. KITTY DANCES WITH STRANGE PARTNERS

CHAPTER XII “EAT OR BE EATEN.”

CHAPTER XIII. PLAY-GROUND, AND AFTER

CHAPTER XIV “I AND MYSELF.”

CHAPTER XV. WAS IT JOHNNIE’S FACE?

CHAPTER XVI. AT THE GATE

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Alice Corkran

From Good-Night to Good-Morning (Children’s Christmas Tale)

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Presently the voice that was her memory went on again: “There was that peach last summer; your mother gave it you to share with Johnnie. You gave him the smaller half; you kept the bigger one for yourself.”

Kitty tried not to hear, but the voice went on speaking: “How often you have run out to amuse yourself and left him pining alone. Do you remember that day when the Punch and Judy man brought his show into the garden, how impatient you were? Tap! tap! his eager little crutch could scarcely follow you. You dropped his hand suddenly and he fell to the ground. What a piteous, helpless little heap he looked. He could not raise himself; but when you lifted him he stroked your cheek and said: ‘Never mind, Kitsie,’ and he never told. Do you remember how pale he looked all day, as if he were in pain?”

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