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Old Father Christmas and Other Holiday Tales
Table of Contents
LOB LIE-BY-THE-FIRE
INTRODUCTORY
THE LITTLE OLD LADIES.—ALMS DONE IN SECRET
AT TEA WITH MRS. DUNMAW
MIDSUMMER EVE—A LOST DIAMOND
WHAT MISS BETTY FOUND
THE BABY, THE LAWYER, AND THE PARSON
BABYHOOD.—PRETTY FLOWERS.—THE ROSE-COLORED TULIPS
EDUCATION.—FIRESIDE TALES
THE FARM-BAILIFF.—PRETTY COCKY.—IN THE WILLOW TREE
INTO THE MIST
THE SEA.—THE ONE-EYED SAILOR.—THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD
THE HIGHLANDER.—BARRACK LIFE.—THE GREAT CURSE—JOHN BROOM’S MONEY-BOX
OUTPOST DUTY.—THE SERGEANT’S STORY.—GRAND ROUNDS
HOSPITAL.—“HAME.”
LUCK GOES.—AND COMES AGAIN
LOB LIE-BY-THE-FIRE
MISS BETTY IS SURPRISED
THE PARSON AND THE LUBBER-FIEND
THE END
TIMOTHY’S SHOES
THE FAIRY GODMOTHER
KINGCUPS
THE SHOES AT SCHOOL
THE SHOES AT CHURCH
THE POOR PERSON
THE DIRTY BOY
THE CHILDREN’S PARTY
THE SNOW STORM
BERNARDUS ON DUTY
THE SHOES GO HOME
OLD FATHER CHRISTMAS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
BENJY IN BEASTLAND
A BAD BOY
NOX,
MISTER ROUGH,
MORE MISCHIEF
FROM THE MORGUE TO THE MOON
WHAT BECAME OF BENJY
THE PEACE-EGG
A CHRISTMAS TALE
THE CAPTAIN’S WIFE
MASTER ROBERT
IN THE NURSERY
“A MUMMING WE WILL GO.”
CHRISTMAS EVE
THE NURSERY MUMMERS AND THE OLD MAN
PEACE AND GOODWILL
THE BROWNIES
THE STORY OF A GRAVE-STONE
THE DOCTOR’S TEA PARTY
“THE BROWNIES.”
A BORROWED BROWNIE
THE LAND OF LOST TOYS
AN EARTHQUAKE IN THE NURSERY
AUNT PENELOPE
THE LAND OF LOST TOYS
SAM SETS UP SHOP
THREE CHRISTMAS-TREES
AN IDYL OF THE WOOD
CHRISTMAS CRACKERS
A FANTASIA
AMELIA AND THE DWARFS
AMELIA
UNDER THE HAYCOCKS
BY MOONLIGHT
AT HOME AGAIN
SPOONS
Juliana Horatia Ewing
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There was no blinking the fact that the child was as troublesome as he was pretty. The very demon of mischief danced in his black eyes, and seemed to possess his feet and fingers as if with quicksilver. And if, as Thomasina said, you “never knew what he would be at next,” you might also be pretty sure that it would be something he ought to have left undone.
John Broom early developed a taste for glass and crockery, and as the china cupboard was in that part of the house to which he by social standing also belonged, he had many chances to seize upon cups, jugs and dishes. If detected with anything that he ought not to have had, it was his custom to drop the forbidden toy and toddle off as fast as his unpractised feet would carry him. The havoc which this caused amongst the glass and china was bewildering in a household where tea-sets and dinner-sets had passed from generation to generation, where slapdash, giddy-pated kitchen-maids never came, where Miss Betty washed the best teacups in the parlor, where Thomasina was more careful than her mistress, and the breaking of a single plate was a serious matter, and if beyond riveting, a misfortune.
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