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CHRISTMAS EVE AND CHRISTMAS DAY. Ten Christmas Stories.
BYEDWARD E. HALE,
AUTHOR OF "TEN TIMES ONE IS TEN," ETC.WITH ILLUSTRATION BY F. O. C. DARLEY.BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS.
1873.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by EDWARD E. HALE, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. CAMBRIDGE: PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON.
PREFACE.
THIS is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome.
The first story has never before been published.
It is but fair to say that I have not drawn on imagination for Laura's night duty, alone upon her island. This is simply the account of what a brave New-England woman did, under like circumstances, because it was the duty next her hand.
If any reader observes a resemblance between her position and that of a boy in another story in this volume, I must disarm censure, by saying, that she had never heard of him when she was called to this duty, and that I had never heard of her when I wrote his story.
E. E. H.
CONTENTS.
- THEY SAW A GREAT LIGHT. 1
- CHRISTMAS WAITS IN BOSTON. 40
- ALICE'S CHRISTMAS-TREE. 74
- DAILY BREAD. 98
- STAND AND WAIT. 140
- THE TWO PRINCES. 188
- THE STORY OF OELLO. 205
- LOVE IS THE WHOLE. 218
- CHRISTMAS AND ROME. 232
- THE SURVIVOR'S STORY. 238
- THE SAME CHRISTMAS IN OLD ENGLAND AND NEW. 263
