A BUDGET OF CHRISTMAS TALES.
By Charles Dickens and Others.
Published by The Christian Herald Louis Klopsch, Proprietor. Bible House, New York.
Copyright 1895. by Louis Klopsch.
Press and Bindery of Historical Publishing Co., Philadelphia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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A Christmas Carol 13 CHARLES DICKENS.
The Christmas Babe 73 MARGARET E. SANGSTER.
A Western Christmas 74 MRS. W. H. CORNING.
Joe's Search for Santa Claus 83 IRVING BACHELLER.
Angela's Christmas 87 JULIA SCHAYER.
The First Puritan Christmas Tree 100 (ANONYMOUS.)
First New England Christmas 103 HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH.
The Chimes 106 CHARLES DICKENS.
Billy's Santa Claus Experience 170 CORNELIA REDMOND.
Christmas in Poganuc 173 MRS. H. B. STOWE.
The Christmas Princess 192 MRS. MOLESWORTH.
Widow Townsend's Visitor 210 (ANONYMOUS.)
The Old Man's Christmas 223 ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
The Christmas Goblin 239 CHARLES DICKENS.
The Song of the Star 244 C. H. MEAD.
Indian Pete's Christmas Gift 252 H. W. COLLINGWOOD.
My Christmas Dinner 264 (ANONYMOUS.)
The Poor Traveler 272 CHARLES DICKENS.
The Legend of the Christmas Tree 287 (ANONYMOUS.)
The Peace Egg 290 JULIANA HORATIA EWING.
CHRISTMAS TALES.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
BY CHARLES DICKENS.
STAVE ONE.
MARLEY'S GHOST.
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and
- 2: Above the warehouse door Scrooge and Marley
- 3: For Scrooge kept the coal box in his own room
- 4: Scrooge said that he would see him yes
- 5: For nobody lived in it but Scrooge
- 6: Scrooge was not a man to be frightened by echoes
- 7: Scrooge trembled more and more
- 8: Scrooge followed to the window
- 9: Scrooge lay in this state until he remembered
- 10: Scrooge recognizing every gate
- 11: What was Merry Christmas to Scrooge
- 12: Old Fezziwig laid down his pen
- 13: In came the three Miss Fezziwigs
- 14: This was not addressed to Scrooge
- 15: The second of the three spirits
- 16: He was not the dogged Scrooge he had been
- 17: Cried Bob Cratchit looking round
- 18: Excited by the two young Cratchits
- 19: Scrooge bent before the Ghost's rebuke
- 20: It was a great surprise to Scrooge
- 21: At the notion of his shaking Scrooge
- 22: And taught Scrooge his precepts
- 23: Scrooge bent down upon his knee
- 24: As Scrooge had seen them often
- 25: Where Scrooge had never penetrated before
- 26: They were severally examined and appraised by old Joe
- 27: Scrooge glanced toward the Phantom
- 28: The only emotion that the Ghost could show him
- 29: The house is yonder Scrooge exclaimed
- 30: And dwindled down into a bedpost
- 31: And Scrooge said often afterward
- 32: Scrooge sat with his door wide open
- 33: Scrooge was better than his word
- 34: And the bran keeps tumbling out
- 35: For Maud most heartily hated to sew
- 36: Were none other than Miss Nancy Catlett and our friend Fanny
- 37: And found the gentlemen strolling about
- 38: And Fanny was sinking into a peaceful sleep
- 39: He was trying to find Santa Claus
- 40: When Santa Claus came and sat down by his side
- 41: It was mostly goodnatured laughter
- 42: Old Marg could not take her eyes from this face white
- 43: Old Marg looked down upon her squalid rags
- 44: She sank weakly upon the box and began gnawing at it
- 45: And old Marg was herself again
- 46: Old Marg drew the animal in and closed the window
- 47: Angela pointed silently to old Marg
- 48: And with it the long lost Captain Olcott
- 49: The pines are frosted with snow and sleet
- 50: And they thought of Malabarre Bay
- 51: And I take my stand by Toby Veck
- 52: At the steeple where they hung
- 53: The Papers is full of obserwations as it is
- 54: It's it's mellower than Polonies
- 55: And a knife and fork before him
- 56: So Trotty took up his knife and fork again
- 57: Beckoning with his head to Trotty Veck
- 58: Filer being exceedingly short sighted
- 59: But Trotty had a father's heart within him
- 60: But everybody knew Alderman Cute was a Justice
- 61: The Alderman a blessing on his head
- 62: The letter Toby had received from Alderman Cute
- 63: Sir Joseph Bowley of any kind from anybody
- 64: Sir Joseph still repeating Take the letter
- 65: And Trotty went half way to meet him
- 66: Trotty knew that he spoke the truth in this
- 67: And she laughed at Trotty too so pleasantly
- 68: Yet Trotty sniffed the savor of the hissing bacon ah
- 69: Surely they're very loud to night
- 70: Became a voice exclaiming in the waking ears of Trotty
- 71: Trotty was about to answer Never
- 72: Trotty heard his child among the singers
- 73: And where their figures had been
- 74: Trotty turned to look upon his guide
- 75: Looking by turns at Tugby and his wife
- 76: And shook her head and her handkerchief at Tugby
- 77: ' And he said he had come to her from Lilian
- 78: He has spared you that trouble
- 79: And pressed the infant to her breast
- 80: I'm speaking softly to avoid a quarrel
- 81: The desperation that had left all human check or hold behind
- 82: Trotty was backing off to that extraordinary chair again
- 83: Chickenstalker shook him by both hands
- 84: Billy's santa claus experience
- 85: Then I heard papa gettin' dressed
- 86: Dolly's soul was all aglow her nerves tingled and vibrated
- 87: Hiel took her up in his long arms and carried her home
- 88: Cushing came and covered the little girl up warmly in bed
- 89: Asked Dolly with a puzzled air
- 90: And Hiel drew her up beside him
- 91: Mis' Persis appeared on the ground by day dawn
- 92: And raisins and almonds stood for grandeur with them
- 93: Cushing was sitting in the kitchen with Mis' Persis
- 94: Dolly turned and went back to school
- 95: Then Nabby took her seat by Hiel in front
- 96: The Fairy of the North must be on her way
- 97: Claribel still nursed her resentment
- 98: The Western fairy adding beseechingly
- 99: Claribel flew to the baby's cradle
- 100: She was beautiful and healthy and intelligent
- 101: This proclamation diminished at once the number of suitors
- 102: His retinue was indeed magnificent
- 103: Prince Jocko proceeded to speak
- 104: Francolin and Sweet Heart were married
- 105: Townsend stopped short and blushed
- 106: Fished out a pair of slippers from a boot rack below
- 107: It's a wonder Bose does not growl
- 108: She had long cherished the idea that Sam Payson
- 109: Townsend laid her knitting aside
- 110: But still she never thinks of Sam
- 111: And Bose sat on his stump of a tail
- 112: Anson found how much help she had been to him
- 113: Anson English favored early marriages
- 114: Edith shrank from his rough words
- 115: Edith never appeared against him
- 116: And Abby dressed and drove in like ratio
- 117: And Abby had her freedom at last
- 118: Abby and Ben have taken the little one home
- 119: It was pooty lonesome pooty lonesome
- 120: Gabriel Grubb chuckled to himself and entered the churchyard
- 121: Gabriel started up and stood rooted to the spot with terror
- 122: As the goblin laughed he suddenly darted toward Gabriel
- 123: The speaker was a manly little newsboy
- 124: Shone the bright star that Maggie and Tot had seen
- 125: And I knowed He see Maggie and me looking up at it
- 126: Sandford as he said to her Josie
- 127: Laundry work in the pine woods implies mending and darning
- 128: And Jeff opened the door for Pete to pass in
- 129: It eez the day of the good Lord
- 130: And when Pete least expected it
- 131: But even an Injun can remember a kindness
- 132: Pete made up his bundle of clothes
- 133: On dining there ten Christmas Days ago
- 134: Mankind had anticipated the future
- 135: My landlady meant to invite me
- 136: Entertainment and fourpence each
- 137: Than Private Richard Doubledick
- 138: Said Private Richard Doubledick
- 139: Than Corporal Richard Doubledick
- 140: Lieutenant Richard Doubledick
- 141: Lieutenant Richard Doubledick came back to life
- 142: Before the days of Private Richard Doubledick
- 143: Thought Captain Richard Doubledick
- 144: Then Valentine rubbed his eyes and listened
- 145: But the fir branch grew and became a Christmas tree
- 146: Been so bitter a task to the Captain's wife
- 147: But I'm for sentry duty to night
- 148: With this Sarah had to content herself
- 149: Robin lost his hold on Sarah's dress
- 150: And Pax can have his red coat on
- 151: The nursery mummers stole away
- 152: Mummers ought to go to the back
- 153: And so we thought we'd be mummers
- 154: At this moment Pax took one of his unexpected runs