CONTENTS
Reading edition · Edition 2
(Note.—The stories marked with a star (*) will be most enjoyed by younger children; those marked with a dagger (+) are better suited to older children.)
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Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse. By Charles Dickens3
*The Fir-Tree. By Hans Christian Andersen6
The Christmas Masquerade. By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman19
*The Shepherds and the Angels. Adapted from the Bible34
+The Telltale Tile. By Olive Thorne Miller36
*Little Girl's Christmas. By Winnifred E. Lincoln48
+A Christmas Matinée. By M. A. L. Lane57
*Toinette and the Elves. By Susan Coolidge68
The Voyage of the Wee Red Cap. By Ruth Sawyer Durand86
*A Story of the Christ-Child (a German Legend for Christmas Eve). As told by Elizabeth Harrison96
*Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas. by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman103
Why the Chimes Rang. By Raymond McAlden113
*The Birds' Christmas (founded on fact). By F. E. Mann120
+The Little Sister's Vacation. By Winifred M. Kirkland126
*Little Wolff's Wooden Shoes. By François Coppée, adapted and translated by Alma J. Foster139
+Christmas in the Alley. By Olive Thorne Miller146
*A Christmas Star. By Katherine Pyle158
+The Queerest Christmas. By Grace Margaret Gallaher165
Old Father Christmas. By J. H. Ewing179
A Christmas Carol. By Charles Dickens193
How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats. By Elia W. Peattie196
The Legend of Babouscka. From the Russian Folk Tale208
*Christmas in the Barn. By F. Arnstein211
The Philanthropist's Christmas. By James Weber Linn216
*The First Christmas-Tree. By Lucy Wheelock230
The First New England Christmas. By G. L. Stone and M. G. Fickett232
The Cratchits' Christmas Dinner. By Charles Dickens242
Christmas in Seventeen Seventy-Six. By Anne Hollingsworth Wharton253
*Christmas Under the Snow. By Olive Thorne Miller261
Mr. Bluff's Experience of Holidays. By Oliver Bell Bunce273
+Master Sandy's Snapdragon. By Elbridge S. Brooks284
A Christmas Fairy. By John Strange Winter297
The Greatest of These. By Joseph Mills Hanson303
*Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe. By Elizabeth Harrison316
+Christmas on Big Rattle. By Theodore Goodridge Roberts329