A Christmas TreasuryJack Newcombe Viking Press, 1982 - 474 pages Includes Christmas in Iowa by Paul Engel. |
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Page 16
... sleep , looking for it in all sorts of places , and after I went to bed I generally jumped out , just to make sure of it . My strong belief , then , is that I was the ghost seen by the writer of the paper . I fancy that I rose in my sleep ...
... sleep , looking for it in all sorts of places , and after I went to bed I generally jumped out , just to make sure of it . My strong belief , then , is that I was the ghost seen by the writer of the paper . I fancy that I rose in my sleep ...
Page 129
... sleep a curious experience I had really had here . More than a year before I made the journey in the course of which I put up at that Inn , I had lost a very near and dear friend by death . Every night since , at home or away from home ...
... sleep a curious experience I had really had here . More than a year before I made the journey in the course of which I put up at that Inn , I had lost a very near and dear friend by death . Every night since , at home or away from home ...
Page 138
... sleep . Earlier in the evening all had joined in the fun . In the general hilarity , there had seemed to be a difference only in bulk between grandfather and the baby . Indeed a shade of solemn expectation , now and then flitting across ...
... sleep . Earlier in the evening all had joined in the fun . In the general hilarity , there had seemed to be a difference only in bulk between grandfather and the baby . Indeed a shade of solemn expectation , now and then flitting across ...
Contents
Hans Christian Andersen THE FIR TREE | 8 |
Barrie THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS | 17 |
Willa Cather | 47 |
Copyright | |
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A. A. Milne ain't Andy asked began bells Bethlehem bird called candle Charlie Christmas Eve Christmas tree Christopher Morley cold Copyright cried dance dark Dick dinner door E. B. White E. E. Cummings Emanuel eyes face fat boy father feet Fir Tree fire gifts girl Grace H. L. Mencken hand head hear heard holiday horses James Thurber Kaplan knew lady light looked Marta Merry Christmas Mole morning mother Nadia never Nicholas night once Parkhill Phyllis McGinley Pickwick pretty Ring road round Santa Claus seemed Simpkin sing sleep smile snow sound star stood story tailor Tailor of Gloucester Teagle tell things Thomas Hardy thought three old told Tom Simmons took turned voice wait walked watch wind window young