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(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