THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE BY HENRY VAN DYKE
Reading edition
ILLUSTRATED BY HOWARD PYLE
Charles Scribner's Sons New York MDCCCXCVII
University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
CONTENTS
I
The Call of the Woodsman…3
II
The Trail Through the Forest…27
III
The Shadow of the Thunder-Oak…43
IV
The Felling of the Tree…63
ILLUSTRATIONS. Photogravures from Original Drawings by Howard Pyle.
So they took the little fir from its place…Frontispiece
The fields around lay bare to the moon…page 24
The sacred hammer of the God Thor…40
Then Winfried told the story of Bethlehem…60