The Childrens Book of Christmas Stories Plr Ebook

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Christmas at Fezziwig’s Warehouse – Charles Dickens
The Fir-Tree – Hans Christian Andersen
The Christmas Masquerade – Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The Shepherds and the Angels – Adapted from the Bills
The Telltale Tile – Olive Thorne Miller
Little Girl’s Christmas – By Winnifred E. Lincoln
A Christmas Matinee – M.A.L. Lane
Toinette and the Elves – 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) – Elizabeth Harrison
Jimmy Scarecrow’s Christmas – Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Why the Chimes Rang – Raymond McAlden
The Birds’Christmas (founded on fact) – F.E. Mann
The Little Sister’s Vacation – Winifred M. Kirkland
Little Wolff’s Wooden Shoes – Francois Coppee, adapted and translated by Alma J. Foster
Christmas in the Alley – Olive Thorne Miller
A Christmas Star – Katherine Pyle
The Queerest Christmas – Grace Margaret Gallaher
Old Father Christmas – J.H. Ewing
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats – Elia W. Peattie
The Legend of Babouscka – From the Russian Folk Tale
Christmas in the Barn – F. Arnstein
The Philanthropist’s Christmas – James Weber Linn
The First Christmas-Tree – Lucy Wheelock
The First New England Christmas – G.L. Stone and M.G. Fickett
The Cratchits’ Christmas Dinner – Charles Dickens
Christmas in Seventeen Seventy-Six – Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
Christmas Under the Snow – Olive Thorne Miller
Mr. Bluff’s Experience of Holidays – Oliver Bell Bunce
Master Sandy’s Snapdragon – Elbridge S. Brooks
A Christmas Fairy – John Strange Winter
The Greatest of These – Joseph Mills Hanson
Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe – Elizabeth Harrison
Big Rattle – Theodore Goodridge Roberts

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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, and warm, and dry, and bright a ballroom as you would desire to see on a winter’s night.

In came a fiddler with a music book, and went up to the lofty desk and made an orchestra of it and tuned like fifty stomach-aches. In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. In came the three Misses Fezziwig, beaming and lovable. In came the six followers whose hearts they broke. In came all the young men and women employed in the business. In came the housemaid with her cousin the baker. In came the cook with her brother’s particular friend the milkman. In came the boy from over the way, who was suspected of not having board enough fromhis master, trying to hide himself behind the girl from next door but one who was proved to have had her ears pulled by her mistress; in they all came, anyhow and everyhow. Away they all went, twenty couple at once; hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping, old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them.

When this result was brought about the fiddler struck up “Sir Roger de Coverley.” Then old Fezziwig stood out to dance with Mrs. Fezziwig. Top couple, too, with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pairs of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance and had no notion of walking…