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O. Henry. The Gift of the Magi
Christina Rossetti. Love Came Down at Christmas
Oscar Wilde. The Selfish Giant
Joseph Mohr; translated by John F. Young. Silent Night
O. Henry. Christmas by Injunction
Deck the Halls. With Boughs of Holly
Saki (H.H. Munro) Reginald on Christmas Presents
James Lord Pierpoint. Jingle Bells
Stephen Leacock. The Errors of Santa Claus
Clement Clarke Moore. An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas
O. Henry. A Chaparral Christmas Gift
Good King Wenceslas
Oscar Wilde. The Happy Prince
H.W. Longfellow. Christmas Bells
Jerome K. Jerome. Told After Supper. Collection of short stories
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
O. Henry. Compliments of the Season
William Henry Davies. Christmas
O. Henry. Tommy’s Burglar
Lewis Carroll. Christmas Greetings [From a Fairy to a Child.]
Цветные иллюстрации
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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On the day before Christmas they drove thirty miles, making four fruitless halts and appeals. Everywhere they found ‘kids’ at a premium.
The sun was low when the wife of a section boss on a lonely railroad huddled her unavailable progeny behind her and said:
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