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. . . ." "H... Christmas Dreams
CHRISTOPHER NORTH To-morrow is Merry Christmas; and when its night descends there will be mirth and music, and the light sounds of the merry-twinkling feet within these now so melancholy walls--and sleep now reigning over all the house save this ... Christmas Eve
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE [From My Study Fire.] The world has been full of mysteries to-day; everybody has gone about weighted with secrets. The children's faces have fairly shone with expectancy, and I enter easily into the universal dream which a... Christmas Eve At Mr Wardle's
From Pickwick Papers CHARLES DICKENS From the center of the ceiling of this kitchen, old Wardle had just suspended with his own hands a huge branch of mistletoe, and this same branch of mistletoe instantaneously gave rise to a scene of general ... Christmas In Seventeen Seventy-six
ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH WHARTON "On Christmas day in Seventy-six, Our gallant troops with bayonets fixed, To Trenton marched away." CHILDREN, have any of you ever thought of what little people like you were doing... Christmas In The Alley
OLIVE THORNE MILLER "I DECLARE for 't, to-morrow is Christmas Day an' I clean forgot all about it," said old Ann, the washerwoman, pausing in her work and holding the flatiron suspended in the air. "Much good it'll do us," growled a disconten... Christmas In The Barn
F. ARNSTEIN ONLY two more days and Christmas would be here! It had been snowing hard, and Johnny was standing at the window, looking at the soft, white snow which covered the ground half a foot deep. Presently he heard the noise of wheels comin... Christmas On Big Rattle
THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS ARCHER sat by the rude hearth of his Big Rattle camp, brooding in a sort of tired contentment over the spitting fagots of var and glowing coals of birch. It was Christmas Eve. He had been out on his snowshoes all th... Christmas Under The Snow
OLIVE THORNE MILLER IT WAS just before Christmas, and Mr. Barnes was starting for the nearest village. The family were out at the door to see him start, and give him the last charges. "Don't forget the Christmas dinner, papa," said Willie. ... Christmas Waits In Boston
I. I always give myself a Christmas present. And on this particular year the present was a Carol party,--which is about as good fun, all things consenting kindly, as a man can have. Many things must consent, as will appear. First of all there... Colonial Christmases
ALICE MORSE EARLE [From Customs and Fashions in Old New England.] The first century of colonial life saw few set times and days for pleasure. The holy days of the English Church were as a stench to the Puritan nostrils, and their public celebra... Daily Bread
I. A QUESTION OF NOURISHMENT. "And how is he?" said Robert, as he came in from his day's work, in every moment of which he had thought of his child. He spoke in a whisper to his wife, who met him in the narrow entry at the head of the stairs.... Good-nature Or Parish Matters
Mr. Stanley had just reached the last stile in the footpath leading to Inglewood parsonage, when his progress was for a moment interrupted by two persons, who were talking so earnestly, that they did not see him. One of them was a short fat ma... How Christmas Came To The Santa Maria Flats
ELIA W. PEATTIE THERE were twenty-six flat children, and none of them had ever been flat children until that year. Previously they had all been home children and as such had, of course, had beautiful Christmases, in which their relations with S... Inexhaustibility Of The Subject Of Christmas
LEIGH HUNT So many things have been said of late years about Christmas, that it is supposed by some there is no saying more. O they of little faith! What! do they suppose that every thing has been said that _can_ be said about any one Christmas t...

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