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Title: The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays

Author: Walter Ben Hare

Illustrator: Buckton Nendick

Release Date: November 16, 2006 [EBook #19826]

Language: English

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THE WHITE CHRISTMAS

AND OTHER

MERRY CHRISTMAS PLAYS

BY

WALTER BEN HARE

AUTHOR OF THE PLAYS

"_Aaron Boggs, Freshman_," "_Abbu San of Old Japan_," "_Civil
Service_," "_A College Town_," "_Kicked Out of College_," "_Macbeth a
la Mode_," "_Mrs. Tubbs of Shantytown_," "_Parlor Matches_," "_A Poor
Married Man_," "_My Irish Rose_," "_A Rustic Romeo_," "_Savageland_,"
"_A Southern Cinderella_," etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY

BUCKTON NENDICK

CHICAGO
T.S. DENISON & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1917
BY
EBEN H. NORRIS

MADE IN U.S.A.

[Illustration: From "ANITA'S SECRET OR CHRISTMAS IN THE STEERAGE"]

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

WITH THE BEST WISHES OF THE AUTHOR

TO

FRANCES MAAS ULLMANN

THE ORIGINAL

"ANITA"

AND

LUDWIG BLOCK ULLMANN

THE ORIGINAL

"JOLLY JACK FROST"

* * * * *

"I have always thought of Christmas time ... as a good time;
a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time
... when men and women seem by one consent to open their
shut-up hearts freely ...; and I say, God bless it!"

CHARLES DICKENS.

FOREWORD

In these little plays I have tried to bring before the public the two
dominant characteristics of the ideal Christmas season, kindness,
expressed by "good will toward men," and the inward joy wrought by
kind acts, and suggested by "peace on earth." As Yuletide draws near
we like to think of the swell of Christmas feeling, kindness, peace
and good will, that rises like a mighty tide over the world, filling
it with the fresh, clean joys and generous impulses that produce the
peace that passeth understanding.

Some of the