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id: 19014
title: Nibsy''s Christmas
author: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
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  the vision of wife and little ones waiting at home for his coming was of what was in store for himself, if the "old man" was at home, partly Very gently they lifted poor little Nibsy--for it was he, caught in his Santa Claus had come to Nibsy, after all, in his alley. pitied her bare feet and little frozen hands played a trick on old Up the street she went, the way she knew so well, one block and a turn with better days, and thought, with a hard, dry sob, of home. Skippy was at home in Scrabble Alley. came home, they were having Skippy on the run. Down the street a little way was a yard just big enough and nice to play They said that no such funeral ever went out of Scrabble Alley before. Skippy had gone to a better home.


id: 20656
title: Old Christmas: from the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
author: Irving, Washington
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  [Illustration: "The old family mansion, partly thrown in deep shadow, [Illustration: OLD CHRISTMAS: Before the remembrance of the good old times, so fast passing, should with now-a-days in its purity, the old English country gentleman; for for so it had certainly been in old times, and the Squire had evidently Simon was called on for a good old Christmas song. Christmas eve but good old English; upon which the young minstrel, and it had been adapted to an old church melody by Master Simon. little study, the pages of old times were to him as the gazettes of the song, at great tables on Christmas day. though the old hall may have resounded in its time with many a scene of The old ceremony of serving up the boar''s head on Christmas day is still Maskings or mummeries were favourite sports at Christmas in old times;


id: 28125
title: Dear Santa Claus
author: Various
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  come and make a good, long visit, and you may be sure Nelly was very "She was just like a little girl, too," said Eva. "Oh, oh, oh, I wish I could have a dream like that!" cried little Susy; "I think that was a lovely dream," said Laura; and then little Susy Fairy were good friends, and they had a funny way of looking at each They were happy all the time, and grandma said they were so They did want to stay longer, but papa laughed and said, "Christmas is teased too; so at last they promised, and the children said good-by to the children hung up their stockings, and Bessie said that grandma and to bed, the smaller children whispered for a long time about Santa happy as the children themselves, was a great, big, noble dog, who got "The poor little thing!" said Alma.


id: 1850
title: Old Christmas
author: Irving, Washington
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  of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the for so it had certainly been in old times, and the Squire had evidently with his humour in respect to old times, and by having a scrap of an was called on for a good old Christmas song. on Christmas eve but good old English; upon which the young minstrel, The party now broke up for the night with the kind-hearted old custom of household at church on a Christmas morning; considering it a day of little study, the pages of old times were to him as the gazettes of the song, at great tables on Christmas Day. though the old hall may have resounded in its time with many a scene The old ceremony of serving up the boar''s head on Christmas day is still Maskings or mummeries were favourite sports at Christmas in old times;


id: 5662
title: The Potato Child & Others
author: Woodbury, Lucia Prudence Hall
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  "She is a tender-hearted little thing, and a kind word goes a great way Miss Amanda looked at the matron as if she were speaking Greek, and said So Elsie went to work for Miss Amanda, and lived in the kitchen. Miss Amanda had been blessed with no little-girl time. "I wouldn''t do that," said Miss Amanda, "it looks forward and pert. "Don''t cry any more," said Miss Amanda, "it does not look well when you it seemed as if the pink eyes of the potato-child looked up into Elsie''s Elsie and her mother had always loved Christmas, means a few years of a little harder work, and then I''ll see my boy able "No," said the boy, "it isn''t much of a place, but I live here." "I work a good deal," said the boy. "Poor boy," said his mother, wiping the blinding tears from his eyes,


id: 32455
title: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day: Ten Christmas stories
author: Hale, Edward Everett
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  "Tripp''s Cove is our Christmas present," said Sybil Cutts to her after all," said the doctor, where poor Laura saw little beauty. And she said aloud to the boy, "Our torch shall not go out, Tommy,--come "Guess not," said old Mipples, "both lanterns was burning when I come knows every thing, said,--"Yes, and the Damascus people brought Damascus And so the boys went home, agreeing to meet Christmas morning "And how is he?" said Robert, as he came in from his day''s work, in Poor Mary, how often she thought of that speech, before Christmas day sack, and hood, said aloud, "This will be a good stay-at-home day," "Poor little things!" said Huldah, "Alice has for in those old days the King had said, "It is far away; and we have Little did these men of 1620 think that the time would come when ships


id: 61300
title: Christmas Stories
author: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
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  winter my own little lad told the kind man whose house it is that he me the very greatest Christmas gift any man ever received: my little homes I knew of to which Santa Claus had had hard work finding his way of Christmas green fixed in his desk just like any other man, laughed and shook his head and said "Santa Claus?" and the men in the line "Little they know," she said bitterly, "or care either, how we live hands about the farm, and they said that he looked just like a little is a good reason why there clings about the Christmas tree in my old Christmas was ever to come to him, and the children''s Santa Claus to "Little dollar," he said, "I think I know where you are needed." And "Yes, my little man, and are you Baby Will?" said a voice that was


