Christmas Eve And Christmas Day

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.

tant more we saw Haliburton and Anna run to the window and[44] pull up the shades, and, in a minute more, faces at all the windows. And so the children sung through Clement's old hymn. Little did Clement think of bells and snow, as he taught it in his Sunday school there in Alexandria. But perhaps to-day, as they pin up the laurels and the palm in the chapel at Alexandria, they are humming the words, not thinking of Clement more than he thought of us. As the children closed with

"Swell the triumphant song
To Christ, our King,"

Haliburton came running out, and begged me to bring them in. But I told him, "No," as soon as I could hush their shouts of "Merry Christmas;" that we had a long journey before us, and must not alight by the way. And the children broke out with

"Hail to the night,
Hail to the day,"

rather a favorite,—quicker and more to the childish taste perhaps than the other,—and with another "Merry Christmas" we were off again.

Off, the length of Commonwealth Avenue, to[45] where it crosses the Brookline branch of the Mill-Dam,—dashing along with the gayest of the sleighing-parties as we came back into town, up Chestnut Street, through Louisburg Square,—we ran the sleigh into a bank on the slope of Pinckney Street in front of Walter's house,—and, before they suspected there that any one had come, the children were singing

"Carol, carol, Christians,

A mixed bag of stories, most of them set at Christmas, though with a couple that aren't directly Christmas-related but seem to have been written or published during the holiday season. "Christmas Waits in Boston" was my favorite, with "Daily Bread" second.

Most of the stories have rather rambling an

I had a really hard time staying engaged during these stories. I also didn't know which ones were based on true events. But I guess that's what you get when you stray from the Christmas classics...

I really liked a few of the short stories, but I didn't enjoy the majority of them.

Juvenile. Didn't finish.

First two stories were amazing!

Edward Everett Hale

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Edward Everett Hale

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