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Title: Jimsy
The Christmas Kid

Author: Leona Dalrymple

Illustrator: Charles Guischard

Release Date: February 18, 2009 [EBook #28110]

Language: English

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Jimsy

The Christmas Kid

By

Leona Dalrymple

Author of "The Lovable Meddler," "Diane
of the Green Van," "Uncle Noah's
Christmas Party," etc.

Decorations by
Charles Guischard

New York
Robert M. McBride & Company
1915

Copyright, 1915, by
Robert M. McBride & Co.
Published October, 1915

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I The Invasion 9

II The Biscuit Link 19

III The Chain Grows 27

IV The Chain Clanks 38

V The Proving 46

VI The Triumph 51

VII The Downfall 55

VIII The Chain is Locked 61

Jimsy

The Christmas Kid

[Illustration]

I

THE INVASION

His name was Jimsy and he took it for granted that you liked him. That
made things difficult from the very start--that and the fact that he
arrived in the village two days before Christmas strung to such a
holiday pitch of expectation that, if you were a respectable,
bewhiskered first citizen like Jimsy's host, you felt the cut-and-dried
dignity of a season which unflinching thrift had taught you to pare of
all its glittering non-essentials, threatened by his bubbling air of
faith in something wonderful to happen.

He had arrived at twilight, just as the first citizen was about to read
his evening paper, and he had made a great deal of noise, yelling back
at old Austin White, whose sleigh had conveyed him from the station to