Down the Snow Stairs is a tale of young girl Kitty whose little brother Johnnie falls ill on a Christmas Eve. Kitty is worried and struggles to fall asleep, and when she finally closes her eyes she travels in her dream to Naughty Children Land. Kitty sees various strange things and meets weird people and creatures. She has to fight and struggle against many tempestuous lures in order to escape her nightmare and comes back in the morning to witness the incredible Christmas miracle.
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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?”
