Front matter
Reading edition
Works of
Frances Margaret Fox
Farmer Brown and the Birds $.50
The Little Giant's Neighbours .50
Mother Nature's Little Ones .50
Betty of Old Mackinaw .50
Brother Billy .50
How Christmas Came to the Mulvaneys .50
The Country Christmas .50
Little Lady Marjorie 1.50
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CHOOSING THE CHRISTMAS TREE. (See page 99)
Cosy Corner Series THE COUNTRY CHRISTMAS By Frances Margaret Fox Author of "Farmer Brown and the Birds," "Little Lady Marjorie," "Betty of Old Mackinaw," "How Christmas Came to the Mulvaneys," etc. Illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry Boston L. C. Page & Company 1907
Copyright, 1907 By L. C. Page & Company (INCORPORATED)
All rights reserved First Impression, June, 1907 COLONIAL PRESS Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, U. S. A.
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Hope for the Mulvaneys 1
II. Sally Brown's New Idea 11
III. House-hunting 18
IV. Tom Makes a Suggestion 28
V. Something Happened 35
VI. How Stubbins Went to See Mr. Hodgkins 46
VII. Pigs in the Attic 54
VIII. Stubbins and Chinky Learn Their Names 63
IX. Hannah's Pink Dress 69
X. The Home That Was Lost on Christmas Day 77
XI. Mrs. Mulvaney's Air Castle 86
XII. Welcome Hodgkins Chooses the Christmas Tree 93
XIII. On the Trail of Santa Claus 101
XIV. The Home That Was Found on Christmas Day 107
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Choosing the Christmas Tree (See page 99) Frontispiece
"'He put on one of her new dresses'" 7
"Pointing to a dilapidated weather-beaten structure almost hidden from view" 19
"Whereupon he was taken in hand" 42
"Then began a wild ride" 52
"A cleaner if not a better boy" 59
"Joined her family beneath an apple-tree" 73
"Laughing softly as she rocked" 90
"The next day Chinky sharpened his hatchet" 103
"The seven stood in a row" 107
THE COUNTRY CHRISTMAS