This Way to Christmas is a tale about a young boy David whose parents go on a trip and leave him in the care of an Irish couple, Joanna and Barney. In each chapter David listens to a new Christmas story or folk tale, learning more and more about the magic of Christmas, and its tradition and customs.
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Ruth Sawyer. This Way to Christmas (Musaicum Christmas Specials)
This Way to Christmas (Musaicum Christmas Specials)
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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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.”