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Christmas Holidays at Merryvale
Alice Hale Burnett
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“Toad” Brown, his brother, and their friends have a jolly time at the Christmas holidays. They daydream at a toyshop window, chop down a Christmas tree in the woods, have a grand snowball fight, and plan a surprise for a friend in this tale of early 20th-century small-town life.
“Toad” Brown, his brother, and their friends have a jolly time at the Christmas holidays. They daydream at a toyshop window, chop down a Christmas tree in the woods, have a grand snowball fight, and plan a surprise for a friend in this tale of early 20th-century small-town life.
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"That's a dandy mitt there," said the other, pointing to a baseball outfit. "I wouldn't be afraid to stop any kind of a ball with that on."
"Wish my dad would get me a new sled like that flyer," sighed Toad. "I finished mine last winter when I ran into that tree with you and Herbie on board."
"You surely did," was the laughing answer. "I remember how we all went flying head first into a snow drift."
"There's a nice pocket knife," was Toad's next remark. "I mean the one with the pearl handle, just next to that doll with the pink dress on."
"Oh!" exclaimed Reddy, "here's what[12] just suits me," catching sight, for the first time, of a punching bag.
"How do you work it?"
"Why, you see there's an elastic rope on each end of it, and one of them you tie to a ring in the fl. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
A short children’s chapter book that was originally published in 1916. It has an old-fashioned flavor and there isn’t much to it, but I did like what the boys did to celebrate Christmas by helping someone else.
Rather alright story about young boys learning to think of others, and being rewarded for it. Also, absolute propaganda for sledding and snowball fights and other red-blooded American boy snow activities.
"Cute" is the word to describe the Merryvale stories. They're pure kiddie fluff, but Christmas is a nostalgic time, and a look at what a rustic children's Christmas would have been at the turn of the century brings a new flavor to the hoary old songs we sing. To go through the motions of singing abo
Cute, moral children's story about giving to others less fortunate and family, friend time. Would be a great one for a reading circle or a younger family evening read as it only has 9 chapters.