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Various. The Children's Book of Christmas Stories
The Children's Book of Christmas Stories
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE CHILDREN'S BOOK OF. CHRISTMAS STORIES
I
CHRISTMAS AT FEZZIWIG'S WAREHOUSE
II
III
IV
THE SHEPHERDS AND THE ANGELS
V
THE TELLTALE TILE[C]
VI
LITTLE GIRL'S CHRISTMAS
VII
"A CHRISTMAS MATINEE"[D]
VIII
TOINETTE AND THE ELVES[E]
IX
THE VOYAGE OF THE WEE RED CAP[F]
X
A STORY OF THE CHRIST-CHILD[G]
XI
JIMMY SCARECROW'S CHRISTMAS
XII
WHY THE CHIMES RANG[H]
XIII
THE BIRDS' CHRISTMAS[I]
XIV
THE LITTLE SISTER'S VACATION[J]
XV
LITTLE WOLFF'S WOODEN SHOES
XVI
CHRISTMAS IN THE ALLEY[K]
XVII
A CHRISTMAS STAR[L]
XVIII
THE QUEEREST CHRISTMAS[M]
XIX
OLD FATHER CHRISTMAS
XX
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
XXI
HOW CHRISTMAS CAME TO THE SANTA MARIA FLATS[N]
XXII
THE LEGEND OF BABOUSCKA[O]
XXIII
CHRISTMAS IN THE BARN[P]
XXIV
THE PHILANTHROPIST'S CHRISTMAS[Q]
XXV
THE FIRST CHRISTMAS-TREE
XXVI
THE FIRST NEW ENGLAND CHRISTMAS[R]
XXVI
THE CRATCHITS' CHRISTMAS DINNER
XXVII
CHRISTMAS IN SEVENTEEN SEVENTY-SIX[S]
XXVIII
CHRISTMAS UNDER THE SNOW[T]
XXIX
MR. BLUFF'S EXPERIENCES OF HOLIDAYS[U]
XXX
MASTER SANDY'S SNAPDRAGON[V]
XXXI
A CHRISTMAS FAIRY[W]
XXXII
THE GREATEST OF THESE[X]
XXXIII
LITTLE GRETCHEN AND THE WOODEN SHOE[Y]
XXXIV
CHRISTMAS ON BIG RATTLE[Z]
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Various
Published by Good Press, 2019
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When Christmas Eve came and the children flocked into the Mayor's mansion, whether it was owing to the Costumer's art, or their own adaptation to the characters they had chosen, it was wonderful how lifelike their representations were. Those little fairies in their short skirts of silken gauze, in which golden sparkles appeared as they moved with their little funny gossamer wings, like butterflies, looked like real fairies. It did not seem possible, when they floated around to the music, half supported on the tips of their dainty toes, half by their filmy purple wings, their delicate bodies swaying in time, that they could be anything but fairies. It seemed absurd to imagine that they were Johnny Mullens, the washerwoman's son, and Polly Flinders, the charwoman's little girl, and so on.
The Mayor's daughter, who had chosen the character of a goose-girl, looked so like a true one that one could hardly dream she ever was anything else. She was, ordinarily, a slender, dainty little lady rather tall for her age. She now looked very short and stubbed and brown, just as if she had been accustomed to tend geese in all sorts of weather. It was so with all the others—the Red Riding-hoods, the princesses, the Bo-Peeps and with every one of the characters who came to the Mayor's ball; Red Riding-hood looked round, with big, frightened eyes, all ready to spy the wolf, and carried her little pat of butter and pot of honey gingerly in her basket; Bo-Peep's eyes looked red with weeping for the loss of her sheep; and the princesses swept about so grandly in their splendid brocaded trains, and held their crowned heads so high that people half-believed them to be true princesses.
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