CHRISTMAS ON BIG RATTLE* by THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS * This story was first printed in the Youth’s Companion, Dec. 14, 1905. Archer sat by the rude hearth of his Big Rattle camp, brooding in a more
LITTLE GRETCHEN AND THE WOODEN SHOE* by ELIZABETH HARRISON * From “Christmastide,” published by the Chicago Kindergarten College, copyright 1902. The following story is one of many which h more
THE GREATEST OF THESE* by JOSEPH MILLS HANSON *This story was first printed in the Youth’s Companion, vol. 76. The outside door swung open suddenly, letting a cloud of steam into the small, hot more
A CHRISTMAS FAIRY* by JOHN STRANGE WINTER * Reprinted with the permission of the Henry Altemus Company. It was getting very near to Christmas time, and all the boys at Miss Ware’s school were ta more
MASTER SANDY’S SNAPDRAGON* by ELDRIDGE S. BROOKS * This story was first published in Wide Awake, vol. 26. There was just enough of December in the air and of May in the sky to make the Yuletide more
MR. BLUFF’S EXPERIENCES OF HOLIDAYS* by OLIVER BELL BUNCE * Reprinted by permission of Moffat, Yird & Co., from Christmas. R.H. Schauffler, Editor. “I hate holidays,” said Bachel more
CHRISTMAS UNDER THE SNOW* by OLIVE THORNE MILLER *From “Kristy’s Queer Christmas,” Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1904. It was just before Christmas, and Mr. Barnes was starting for th more
CHRISTMAS IN SEVENTEEN SEVENTY-SIX* by ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH WHARTON *From “A Last Century Maid and Other Stories for Children,” by A.H.W. Lippincott, 1895. “On Christmas day in Seventy more
THE CRATCHITS’ CHRISTMAS DINNER (Adapted) CHARLES DICKENS Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Present stood in the city streets on Christmas morning, where (for the weather was severe) the people more
THE FIRST NEW ENGLAND CHRISTMAS* by G. L. STONE AND M. G. FICKETT “From Stone and Fickett’s “Every Day Life in the Colonies;” copyrighted 1905, by D. C. Heath & Co. Used by more
THE FIRST CHRISTMAS-TREE BY LUCY WHEELOCK Two little children were sitting by the fire one cold winter’s night. All at once they heard a timid knock at the door and one ran to open it. There, ou more
THE PHILANTHROPIST’S CHRISTMAS* by JAMES WEBER LINN This story was first published in the Youth’s Companion, vol. 82. “Did you see this committee yesterday, Mr. Mathews?” asked more
CHRISTMAS IN THE BARN* by F. ARNSTEIN * From “In the Child’s World,” by Emilie Poulssen, Milton Bradley Co., Publishers. Used by permission. Only two more days and Christmas would be more
THE LEGEND OF BABOUSCKA* ADAPTED FROM THE RUSSIAN *From “The Children’s Hour,” published by the Milton Bradley Co. It was the night the dear Christ-Child came to Bethlehem. In a coun more
HOW CHRISTMAS CAME TO THE SANTA MARIA FLATS* by ELIA W. PEATTIE * From “Ickery Ann and Other Girls and Boys,” by Elia W. Peattie. Copyright, 1898, by Herbert S. Stone & Co., Duffield & more