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Christmas Every Day and Other Stories
William Dean Howells
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TURKEYS TURNING THE TABLES.“Well, you see,” the papa began, on Christmas morning, when the little girl had snuggled in his lap into just the right shape for listening, “it was the night after Thanksgiving, and you know how everybody feels the night after Thanksgiving.”
“Yes; but you needn't begin that way, papa,” said the little girl; “I'm not going to have any moral to it this time.”
“No, indeed! But it can be a true story, can't it?”
“I don't know,” said the little girl; “I like made-up ones.”
“Well, this is going to be a true one, anyway, and it's no use talking.”[Pg 26]
All the relations in the neighborhood had come to dinner, and then gone back to their own houses, but some of the r. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Cleverly written short story about why it isn’t always good to get what you wish for. The little girl keeps Papa on his toes!
This is a nice example of “be careful what you wish for because it might come true.” It’s a cautionary tale a father tells his young daughter. First published in 1908, this story was featured in Richard Paul Evans’ The Christmas Box and has been published again with a forward by him. It’s an interes
I have arranged my takeaway thoughts into a haiku:
"If only all kids
Could learn how sugar goes sour
Through similar means."
Well it's interesting; I'll say that much for it. But it's also cynical and sad. A Christmas story about a little girl who can visit a magical wish-granting Christmas fairy still misses the wonder that such a tale might evoke, and it turns into an obvious moral lesson. I thought it was pretty depres
This is a charming story. Enjoyable for any age.
“The little girl came into her papa's study, as she always did Saturday morning before breakfast, and asked for a story. He tried to beg off that morning, for he was very busy, but she would not let him. So he began” It is the perfect way to start any story a father reading to his little girl. I am