PAGE A Christmas Tree 1 What Christmas is as we Grow Older 23 The Poor Relation’s Story 31 The Child’s Story 47 The Schoolboy’s Story 55 Nobody’s Story 69 I HAVE been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects. There were rosy-cheeked dolls, hiding behind the green leaves; and there were real watches (with movable hands, at least, and an endless capacity of being wound up) dangling from innumerable twigs; there…
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