The Childrens Book of Christmas Stories

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THE CHILDREN'S BOOK OF CHRISTMAS STORIES
Edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner

THE CHILDREN'S BOOK OF CHRISTMAS STORIES
PREFACE
Many librarians have felt the need and expressed the desire for a select
collection of children's Christmas stories in one volume. This books
claims to be just that and nothing more.
Each of the stories has already won the approval of thousands of
children, and each is fraught with the true Christmas spirit.
It is hoped that the collection will prove equally acceptable to parents,
teachers, and librarians.

Asa Don Dickinson.
CONTENTS (Note.--The stories marked with a star (*) will be most
enjoyed by younger children; those marked with a two stars (**) are
better suited to older children.)
Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse. By Charles Dickens * The
Fir-Tree. By Hans Christian Andersen The Christmas Masquerade. By
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman * The Shepherds and the Angels. Adapted
from the Bills ** The Telltale Tile. By Olive Thorne Miller * Little
Girl's Christmas. By Winnifred E. Lincoln ** A Christmas Matinee. By
M.A.L. Lane * Toinette and the Elves. By Susan Coolidge The Voyage
of the Wee Red Cap. By Ruth Sawyer Durand * A Story of the
Christ-Child (a German Legend for Christmas Eve). As told by
Elizabeth Harrison * Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas. By Mary E.
Wilkins Freeman Why the Chimes Rang. By Raymond McAlden The
Birds'Christmas (founded on fact). By F.E. Mann ** The Little Sister's
Vacation. By Winifred M. Kirkland * Little Wolff's Wooden Shoes. By
Francois Coppee, adapted and translated by Alma J. Foster **
Christmas in the Alley. By Olive Thorne Miller * A Christmas Star. By
Katherine Pyle ** The Queerest Christmas. By Grace Margaret
Gallaher Old Father Christmas. By J.H. Ewing A Christmas Carol. By
Charles Dickens How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats. By
Elia W. Peattie The Legend of Babouscka. From the Russian Folk Tale
* Christmas in the Barn. By F. Arnstein The Philanthropist's Christmas.
By James Weber Linn * The First Christmas-Tree. By Lucy Wheelock
The First New England Christmas. By G.L. Stone and M.G. Fickett
The Cratchits' Christmas Dinner. By Charles Dickens Christmas in
Seventeen Seventy-Six. By Anne Hollingsworth Wharton * Christmas
Under the Snow. By Olive Thorne Miller Mr. Bluff's Experience of
Holidays. By Oliver Bell Bunce ** Master Sandy's Snapdragon. By
Elbridge S. Brooks A Christmas Fairy. By John Strange Winter The
Greatest of These. By Joseph Mills Hanson * Little Gretchen and the
Wooden Shoe. By Elizabeth Harrison ** Big Rattle. By Theodore
Goodridge Roberts

I. CHRISTMAS AT FEZZIWIG'S WAREHOUSE
CHARLES DICKENS
"Yo Ho! my boys," said Fezziwig. "No more work to-night! Christmas
Eve, Dick! Christmas, Ebenezer! Let's have the shutters up!" cried old
Fezziwig with a sharp clap of his hands, "before a man can say Jack
Robinson. . . ."
"Hilli-ho!" cried old Fezziwig, skipping down from the high desk with
wonderful agility. "Clear away, my lads, and let's have lots of room
here! Hilli-ho, Dick! Cheer-up, Ebenezer!"
Clear away! There was nothing they wouldn't have cleared away, or
couldn't have cleared away with old Fezziwig looking on. It was done
in a minute. Every movable was packed off, as if it were dismissed
from public life forevermore; the floor was swept and watered, the
lamps were trimmed, fuel was heaped upon the fire; and the warehouse
was as snug,