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Children Of Christmas

Children Of Christmas

by Edith Matilda Thomas

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Author
Thomas, Edith Matilda, 1854-1925
Title
Children of Christmas, and Others
Credits
Produced by Greg Bergquist, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Christmas -- Poetry
Category
Text
eBook-No.
40598
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40598
Release Date
August 28, 2012
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Children of Christmas AND OTHERS
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.CRADLE SONG For one Born at Christmas
  4. 4.HOW MANY
  5. 5.HER CHRISTMAS PRESENT A True Incident
  6. 6.A CHRISTMAS SPY
  7. 7.REFRESHMENTS FOR SANTA CLAUS
  8. 8.HOW THE CHRISTMAS TREE WAS BROUGHT TO NOME
  9. 9.HOLLY AND MISTLETOE
  10. 10.THE FIREBRAND ( Northern Ohio, Christmas Eve, 1804 )
  11. 11.THE FOUNDLING
  12. 12.MEETING THE KINGS ( Suggested by “A Provençal Christmas Postscript,” Thomas A. Janvier )
  13. 13.THE PROCESSION OF THE KINGS
  14. 14.MELCHIOR’S RIDE
  15. 15.ONE OF THE TWELVE A Christmas Carol From the Provençal of Roumanille
  16. 16.THE WITCH’S CHILD
  17. 17.BABUSHKA ( A Russian Legend )
  18. 18.A CHRISTMAS OFFERING ( Florence, Italy )
  19. 19.CHRISTMAS POST
  20. 20.THE CHRISTMAS SHEAF ( Provençal )
  21. 21.THE BIRDS ON THE CHRISTMAS SHEAF
  22. 22.WHAT THE PINE TREES SAID
  23. 23.TWO CHILD ANGELS
  24. 24.THE OLD DOLL ( Just after Christmas )
  25. 25.THE APPLE-BLOSSOM SWITCH
  26. 26.THE INDIGNANT BABY
  27. 27.A QUESTION OF SPELLING
  28. 28.“YOURS SEVERELY” ( The Letter of a Five Year Old )
  29. 29.A LACK OF ATTENTION
  30. 30.“I OUGHT TO MUSTN’T”
  31. 31.A VAIN REGRET
  32. 32.IN THE DARK LITTLE FLAT AT THE END OF THE COURT
  33. 33.THE LITTLE GIRL FROM TOWN
  34. 34.FOR EVERY DAY
  35. 35.THE DAY-DREAMER
  36. 36.BORN DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND ( At an Asylum )
  37. 37.THE CRADLE-CHILD
  38. 38.SOME LADIES OF THE OLDEN TIME
  39. 39.A WATER LILY
  40. 40.THE KINDERBANK [4] The Little Mothers
  41. 41.BUONAMICO A Legend of Florence
  42. 42.THE PRINCE AND THE WHIPPING-BOY
  43. 43.MASTER CORVUS
  44. 44.“P. ABBOTT” ( A Tradition of Westminster Abbey )
  45. 45.THE GIANT’S DAUGHTER
  46. 46.EROTION AND THE DOVE.
  47. 47.THE HOMESICK SOLDIER
  48. 48.THE COSSACK MOTHER
  49. 49.THE BLOSSOM-CHILD
  50. 50.THE CLOCK OF THE YEAR
  51. 51.THE YOUNG OF SPRING
  52. 52.THE TRIUMPH OF THE BROWN THRUSH
  53. 53.DAY—WIDE DAY!
  54. 54.THE BLOSSOMS OF TO-MORROW
  55. 55.THE NEST IN THE HEATHER ( In Scotland it was an old custom for the young people on Easter morning to hunt for eggs of the wild fowl )
  56. 56.LADY-GROVE (SILVER BIRCHES)
  57. 57.SHADOW BROOK
  58. 58.THE BROOK AND THE BIRD
  59. 59.THE BIRDS OF SOLEURE
  60. 60.THE PRAIRIE NEST
  61. 61.THE MOVING OF THE NEST
  62. 62.THE WIDOWED EAGLE
  63. 63.THE CHICKADEE
  64. 64.THE EARTH-MOTHER AND HER CHILDREN
  65. 65.“WHEN THE LEAVES ARE GONE”
  66. 66.THE FIRST THANKSGIVING (1621)
  67. 67.“MASCOTS”
  68. 68.MOTHER FUR
  69. 69.WHAT THE CAT-MOTHER SAID
  70. 70.WHAT THE BIRD-MOTHER SAID
  71. 71.WHAT THE FRIEND OF BOTH SAID
  72. 72.THE LITTLE BROWN BAT
  73. 73.THE LOST CHARTER ( Based on an Arabic Legend )
  74. 74.THE SAVING OF JACK An East Side Incident
  75. 75.SKYE OF SKYE
  76. 76.TIP’S KITTEN
  77. 77.THE KING OF CATS
  78. 78.WAIFS
  79. 79.FROST-FLOWERS OF THE PAVEMENT
  80. 80.STARS OF THE SNOW
  81. 81.JUNE IN THE SKY
  82. 82.MOTHER EARTH
  83. 83.THE RAIN RAINS EVERY DAY
  84. 84.THE GOOD BY

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