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Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse. _By Charles Dickens_ 3

*The Fir-Tree. _By Hans Christian Andersen_ 6

The Christmas Masquerade. _By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman_ 19

*The Shepherds and the Angels. _Adapted from the Bible_ 34

+The Telltale Tile. _By Olive Thorne Miller_ 36

*Little Girl's Christmas. _By Winnifred E. Lincoln_ 48

+A Christmas Matinee. _By M. A. L. Lane_ 57

*Toinette and the Elves. _By Susan Coolidge_ 68

The Voyage of the Wee Red Cap. _By Ruth Sawyer Durand_ 86

*A Story of the Christ-Child (a German Legend for Christmas
Eve). _As told by Elizabeth Harrison_ 96

*Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas. _by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman_ 103

Why the Chimes Rang. _By Raymond McAlden_ 113

*The Birds' Christmas (founded on fact). _By F. E. Mann_ 120

+The Little Sister's Vacation. _By Winifred M. Kirkland_ 126

*Little Wolff's Wooden Shoes. _By Francois Coppee, adapted
and translated by Alma J. Foster_ 139

+Christmas in the Alley. _By Olive Thorne Miller_ 146

*A Christmas Star. _By Katherine Pyle_ 158

+The Queerest Christmas. _By Grace Margaret Gallaher_ 165

Old Father Christmas. _By J. H. Ewing_ 179

A Christmas Carol. _By Charles Dickens_ 193

How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats. _By Elia W. Peattie_ 196

The Legend of Babouscka. _From the Russian Folk Tale_ 208

*Christmas in the Barn. _By F. Arnstein_ 211

The Philanthropist's Christmas. _By James Weber Linn_ 216

*The First Christmas-Tree. _By Lucy Wheelock_ 230

The First New England Christmas. _By G. L. Stone and M. G.
Fickett_ 232

The Cratchits' Christmas Dinner. _By Charles Dickens_ 242

Christmas in Seventeen Seventy-Six. _By Anne Hollingsworth
Wharton_ 253

*Christmas Under the Snow. _By Olive Thorne Miller_