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Edward Everett Hale. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day: Ten Christmas stories
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day: Ten Christmas stories
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THEY SAW A GREAT LIGHT
CHAPTER I. ANOTHER GENERATION
CHAPTER II. TRIPP'S COVE
CHRISTMAS WAITS IN BOSTON
I
II
III
ALICE'S CHRISTMAS-TREE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
DAILY BREAD
I. A QUESTION OF NOURISHMENT
II. ST. VICTORIA'S DAY
III. ST. VICTORIA'S DAY IN THE COUNTRY
IV. HOW THEY BROKE THE BLOCKADE
V. CHRISTMAS MORNING
STAND AND WAIT
I. CHRISTMAS EVE
II. CHRISTMAS AGAIN
III. CHRISTMAS AGAIN
IV. ONE CHRISTMAS MORE
THE TWO PRINCES. A STORY FOR CHILDREN
I
II
III
IV
V
THE STORY OF OELLO
LOVE IS THE WHOLE. A STORY FOR CHILDREN
CHRISTMAS AND ROME
THE SURVIVOR'S STORY
THE SAME CHRISTMAS IN OLD ENGLAND AND NEW
Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son
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Edward Everett Hale
Published by Good Press, 2021
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So Jem put his prize-money into a new bark, which he found building at Bath; and they called the bark the "Laura," and Tom and Laura Cutts went to the launching, and Jem superintended the rigging of her himself; and then he took Tom and Laura and the babies with him to New York, and a high time they had together there. Tom saw many of the old army boys, and Laura hunted up one or two old school friends; and they saw Booth in Iago, and screamed themselves hoarse at Niblo's, and heard Rudolphsen and Johannsen in the German opera; they rode in the Park, and they walked in the Park; they browsed in the Astor and went shopping at Stewart's, and saw the people paint porcelain at Haighwout's; and, by Mr. Alden's kindness, went through the wonders of Harper's. In short, for three weeks, all of which time they lived on board ship, they saw the lions of New York as children of the public do, for whom that great city decks itself and prepares its wonders, albeit their existence is hardly known to its inhabitants.
Meanwhile Jem had chartered the "Laura" for a voyage to San Francisco. And so, before long, her cargo began to come on board; and she and Tom and the babies took a mournful farewell, and came back to Tripp's Cove again, to Moses Marvel's house. And poor Tom thought it looked smaller than ever, and that he should find it harder than ever to settle down to being of no use to anybody, and to eat Moses Marvel's bread,—without house or barn, or bin or oven, or board or bed, even the meanest, of his own. Poor Tom! and this was the reward of being the first man in Maine to enter for three years!
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