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Title: On Christmas Day In The Evening

Author: Grace Louise Smith Richmond

Illustrator: Charles M. Relyea

Release Date: September 26, 2006 [EBook #19384]

Language: English

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[Illustration:
"It's a good thing to exercise the imagination, now and then.
That's the way changes come"]

[Decoration]

On
Christmas
Day In The
Evening

by
Grace S. Richmond

Illustrated by
Charles M. Relyea

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers New York

All Rights Reserved, Including that of Translation
into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian

Copyright
1910
Doubleday Page & Company

Copyright, 1910, By The Ridgway Company

Illustrations

"It's a good thing to exercise the imagination,
now and then. That's the way changes come" _Frontispiece_

Facing Page

"Cut it out--cut out the steam calliope!" 22

"Billy!" His sister Margaret's voice was anxious.
"Are you sure you'd better?" 32

There was flesh and blood in the message he gave them,
and it was the message they needed 52

ON CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE EVENING

[Decoration]

[Decoration]

On Christmas Day In The Evening

[Music:
Holy night! peaceful night! Darkness flies, all is light!]

All the Fernald family go back to the old home for Christmas, now, every
year. Last Christmas was the third on which Oliver and Edson, Ralph and
Guy, Carolyn and Nan, were all at the familiar fireside, as they used
to be in the days before they were married. The wives and husbands and
children go too--when other family claims can be compromised with--and
no one of them, down to Carolyn's youngest baby, who was not a year old
last Chri