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The Big Book of Christmas




  THE BIG BOOK OF CHRISTMAS

  Various Authors

  Copyright © 2019 by Santa Claus

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  Contents

  A.A. Milne

  A Hint for Next Christmas

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  The Ghost in the Picture Room

  Algernon Blackwood

  The Kit-Bag

  Alice Duer Miller

  The Burglar And The Wizard

  Alice Hale Burnett

  Christmas Holidays at Merryvale

  Amy Ella Blanchard

  Little Maid Marian

  Andy Adams

  A Winter Round-Up

  Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

  Christmas in Seventeen Seventy-Six

  Annie Eliot Trumbull

  A Christmas Accident

  Annie Roe Carr

  Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays

  Anonymous

  A Christmas Hamper

  Anonymous

  A Snow Man

  Anonymous

  My Christmas Dinner

  Anonymous

  The First Puritan Christmas Tree

  Anonymous

  The Legend of Babouscka

  Anonymous

  The Legend of the Christmas Tree

  Anonymous

  The Little Thief in the Pantry

  Anonymous

  The Shepherds and the Angels

  Anonymous

  The practical joke, or, The Christmas story of Uncle Ned

  Anonymous

  Widow Townsend's Visitor

  Anton Chekhov

  A Woman's Kingdom

  Anton Chekhov

  At Christmas Time

  Anton Chekhov

  The Boys

  Anton Chekhov

  Vanka

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  The Adventures of the Blue Carbuncle

  Banjo Paterson

  Santa Claus in the Bush

  Banjo Paterson

  Santa Claus

  Beatrix Potter

  The Tailor of Gloucester

  Berthold Auerbach

  Christian Gellert's Last Christmas

  Bret Harte

  How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar

  Grimm Brothers

  The Elves And The Shoemaker

  C.H. Mead

  The Song of the Star

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Christmas

  Charles Dickens

  A Christmas Carol

  Charles Dickens

  A Christmas Tree

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse

  Charles Dickens

  Nobody's Story

  Charles Dickens

  The Battle of Life

  Charles Dickens

  The Child's Story

  Charles Dickens

  The Chimes

  Charles Dickens

  The Christmas Golbin

  Charles Dickens

  The Cricket on the Hearth

  Charles Dickens

  The Ghost in the Corner Room

  Charles Dickens

  The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

  Charles Dickens

  The Mortals in the House

  Charles Dickens

  The Poor Relation's Story

  Charles Dickens

  The Poor Traveler

  Charles Dickens

  The Schoolboy's Story

  Charles Dickens

  What Christmas Is As We Grow Older

  Charles Edward Carryl

  The Admiral’s Caravan

  All Through the Night (Christmas Carol)

  Angels We Have Heard on High (Christmas Carol)

  Away in the Manger (Christmas Carol)

  Carol of the Bells (Christmas Carol)

  Deck the Halls (Christmas Carol)

  God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen (Christmas Carol)

  Good King Wenceslas (Christmas Carol)

  Hark The Herald Angels Sing (Christmas Carol)

  I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (Christmas Carol)

  It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (Christmas Carol)

  Jingle Bells (Christmas Carol)

  Joy to the World (Christmas Carol)

  O Christmas Tree (Christmas Carol)

  O Come, All Ye Faithful (Christmas Carol)

  O Little Town of Bethlehem (Christmas Carol)

  Silent Night (Christmas Carol)

  The First Noel (Christmas Carol)

  The Twelve Days of Christmas (Christmas Carol)

  The Wassail Song (Here We Come A-Caroling)(Christmas Carol)

  We Three Kings (Christmas Carol)

  Christopher North

  Christmas Dreams

  Clement Clarke Moore

  Twas The Night Before Christmas

  Cornelia Redmond

  Billy’s Santa Claus Experience

  Don Marquis

  A Christmas Gift

  Dylan Thomas

  A Child's Christmas in Wales

  Edward Payson Roe

  A Christmas-Eve Suit

  Edward Payson Roe

  Christmas Eve in War Times

  Edward Payson Roe

  Susie Rolliffe's Christmas

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs

  Elia W. Peattie

  How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats

  Elizabeth Anderson

  The Goblins' Christmas

  Elizabeth Margaret Chandler

  Christmas

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  The Old Man’s Christmas

  Ellis Parker Butler

  The Thin Santa Claus

  Ernest Vincent Wright

  Santa Claus’ Assistants

  Eugene Field

  Christmas Eve

  Eugene Field

  Christmas Treasures

  Eugene Field

  Jest 'fore Christmas

  Eugene Field

  The First Christmas Tree

  Eugene Field

  The Peace of Christmas-Time

  Evaleen Stein

  The Christmas Porringer

  Florence L. Barclay

  The Upas Tree

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Is There a Santa Claus?

  Frank Stockton

  Captain Eli's Best Ear

  Frank Stockton

  The Christmas Wreck

  Frank Stockton

  The Sprig of Holly

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  A Christmas Tree and a Wedding

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  The Beggar Boy at Christ’s Christmas Tree

  G.K. Chesterton

  Christmas

  George A. Baker

  On Santa Claus

  George Augustus Sala

  The Ghost in the Double Room

  George Robert Sims

  Christmas Day in the Workhouse

  H.W. Collingwood

  Indian Pete's Christmas Gift

  H.P. Lovecraft

  Christmastide

  H.P. Lovecraft

  The Festival

  Hans Christian Andersen

  The Fir-Tree

  Hans Christian Andersen

  The Last Dream of the Old Oak Tree

  Hans Christian Andersen

  The Little Match Girl

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Betty's Bright Idea

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

/>   Christmas In Poganuc

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Christmas; or, The Good Fairy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  The First Christmas of New England

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Christmas Bells

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  The Three Kings

  Henry van Dyke

  A Dream-Story

  Henry van Dyke

  A Little Essay: Christmas-Giving And Christmas-Living

  Henry van Dyke

  A Short Christmas Sermon: Keeping Christmas

  Henry van Dyke

  Christmas Prayers

  Henry van Dyke

  Keeping Christmas

  Henry van Dyke

  The First Christmas Tree

  Henry van Dyke

  The Other Wise Man

  Hesba Stretton

  The Ghost in the Clock Room

  Hezekiah Butterworth

  First New England Christmas

  Jacob August Riis

  Nibsy's Christmas

  Jacob August Riis

  Skippy Of Scrabble Alley

  Jacob August Riis

  What The Christmas Sun Saw In The Tenements

  James Whitcomb Riley

  A Defective Santa Claus

  John Bowring

  Watchman, Tell Us of the Night

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  A Christmas Carmen

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  The Mystic's Christmas

  John Kendrick Bangs

  A Holiday Wish

  John Kendrick Bangs

  A Merry Christmas Pie

  John Kendrick Bangs

  A Toast to Santa Claus

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Christmas Eve

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Santa Claus and Little Billee

  John Kendrick Bangs

  The Child Who Had Everything But-

  John Kendrick Bangs

  The Conversion of Hetherington

  John Kendrick Bangs

  The House of The Seven Santas

  John Masefield

  Christmas

  John Milton

  On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

  John Strange Winter

  A Christmas Fairy

  José María de Pereda

  A Christmas Eve in Spain

  Julia Schayer

  Angela's Christmas

  Juliana Horatia Ewing

  The Peace Egg

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  The Birds' Christmas Carol

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  The Romance of a Christmas Card

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride

  Kenneth Grahame

  Carol

  L. Frank Baum

  A Kidnapped Santa Claus

  L. Frank Baum

  Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus

  L. Frank Baum

  Little Bun Rabbit

  Laura Lee Hope

  Six Little Bunkers at Grandpa Ford's

  Laura Lee Hope

  The Story of a Nodding Donkey

  Laura Lee Hope

  The Story of a Stuffed Elephant

  Leo Tolstoy

  A Russian Christmas Party

  Leo Tolstoy

  Papa Panov's Special Christmas

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Christmas

  Lewis Carroll

  Christmas Greetings from a Fairy to a Child

  Lope de Vega

  A Christmas Cradlesong

  Louisa May Alcott

  A Christmas Dream, and How It Came to Be True

  Louisa May Alcott

  A Country Christmas

  Louisa May Alcott

  A Song for a Christmas Tree

  Louisa May Alcott

  Cousin Tribulation's Story

  Louisa May Alcott

  The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation

  Louisa May Alcott

  Tilly's Christmas

  Louisa May Alcott

  What the Bell Saw and Said

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  A Christmas Inspiration

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Christmas at Red Butte

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Uncle Richard's New Year Dinner

  M.E.S.

  Christmas

  Margaret E. Sangster

  The Christmas Babe

  Margery Williams

  The Velveteen Rabbit

  Mark Twain

  A Letter from Santa Claus

  Martha Finley

  Christmas with Grandma Elsie

  Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

  A Stolen Christmas

  Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

  Christmas Jenny

  Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

  Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas

  Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

  Josiah's First Christmas

  Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

  The Brownie's Xmas

  Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

  The Christmas Ball

  Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

  The Christmas Ghost

  Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

  The Christmas Masquerade

  Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

  The Gospel According to Joan

  Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

  The Snowflake Tree

  Mary Louisa Molesworth

  Not Quite True

  Mary Louisa Molesworth

  The Christmas Princess

  Meredith Nicholson

  A Reversible Santa Claus