This Way to Christmas

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Ruth Sawyer. This Way to Christmas

This Way to Christmas

Table of Contents

I. THE CHAPTER BEFORE THE BEGINNING

II. THE LOCKED-OUT FAIRY

III. BARNEY’S TALE OF THE WEE RED CAP

IV. DAVID GOES SEEKING THE WAY TO CHRISTMAS AND FINDS THE FLAGMAN

V. THE PATHWAY TO UNCLE JOAB AND A NEW SANTA CLAUS

VI. THE LOCKED-OUT FAIRY AGAIN LEADS THE WAY AND DAVID HEARS OF A CHRISTMAS PROMISE

VII. THE TRAPPER’S TALE OF THE FIRST BIRTHDAY

VIII. THE CHRISTMAS THAT WAS NEARLY LOST

IX. ST. BRIDGET

X. THE CHAPTER AFTER THE END

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Ruth Sawyer

Children’s Holiday Tale

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Johanna puckered her forehead and considered for a moment.

“’Tis this way, laddy. I can’t be saying honestly that I have laid my two eyes on one for certain; and then again I can’t say honestly that I haven’t. Many’s the time in the woods or thereabouts that I’ve had the feeling I’ve just stumbled on one, just missed him by a wink, or beaten him there by a second. The moss by the brookside would have a trodden-down look and the bracken would be swaying with no help o’ the wind—for all the world as if a wee man had just been brushing his way through.”

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