Children of Christmas AND OTHERS

CONTENTS

CRADLE SONG For one Born at Christmas

HOW MANY

HER CHRISTMAS PRESENT A True Incident

A CHRISTMAS SPY

REFRESHMENTS FOR SANTA CLAUS

HOW THE CHRISTMAS TREE WAS BROUGHT TO NOME

HOLLY AND MISTLETOE

THE FIREBRAND (Northern Ohio, Christmas Eve, 1804)

THE FOUNDLING

MEETING THE KINGS (Suggested by “A Provençal Christmas Postscript,” Thomas A. Janvier)

THE PROCESSION OF THE KINGS

MELCHIOR’S RIDE

ONE OF THE TWELVE A Christmas Carol From the Provençal of Roumanille

THE WITCH’S CHILD

BABUSHKA (A Russian Legend)

A CHRISTMAS OFFERING (Florence, Italy)

CHRISTMAS POST

THE CHRISTMAS SHEAF (Provençal)

THE BIRDS ON THE CHRISTMAS SHEAF

WHAT THE PINE TREES SAID

TWO CHILD ANGELS

THE OLD DOLL (Just after Christmas)

THE APPLE-BLOSSOM SWITCH

THE INDIGNANT BABY

A QUESTION OF SPELLING

“YOURS SEVERELY” (The Letter of a Five Year Old)

A LACK OF ATTENTION

“I OUGHT TO MUSTN’T”

A VAIN REGRET

IN THE DARK LITTLE FLAT AT THE END OF THE COURT

THE LITTLE GIRL FROM TOWN

FOR EVERY DAY

THE DAY-DREAMER

BORN DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND (At an Asylum)

THE CRADLE-CHILD

SOME LADIES OF THE OLDEN TIME

A WATER LILY

THE KINDERBANK[4] The Little Mothers

BUONAMICO A Legend of Florence

THE PRINCE AND THE WHIPPING-BOY

MASTER CORVUS

“P. ABBOTT” (A Tradition of Westminster Abbey)

THE GIANT’S DAUGHTER

EROTION AND THE DOVE.

THE HOMESICK SOLDIER

THE COSSACK MOTHER

THE BLOSSOM-CHILD

THE CLOCK OF THE YEAR

THE YOUNG OF SPRING

THE TRIUMPH OF THE BROWN THRUSH

DAY—WIDE DAY!

THE BLOSSOMS OF TO-MORROW

THE NEST IN THE HEATHER (In Scotland it was an old custom for the young people on Easter morning to hunt for eggs of the wild fowl)

LADY-GROVE (SILVER BIRCHES)

SHADOW BROOK

THE BROOK AND THE BIRD

THE BIRDS OF SOLEURE

THE PRAIRIE NEST

THE MOVING OF THE NEST

THE WIDOWED EAGLE

THE CHICKADEE

THE EARTH-MOTHER AND HER CHILDREN

“WHEN THE LEAVES ARE GONE”

THE FIRST THANKSGIVING (1621)

“MASCOTS”

MOTHER FUR

WHAT THE CAT-MOTHER SAID

WHAT THE BIRD-MOTHER SAID

WHAT THE FRIEND OF BOTH SAID

THE LITTLE BROWN BAT

THE LOST CHARTER (Based on an Arabic Legend)

THE SAVING OF JACK An East Side Incident

SKYE OF SKYE

TIP’S KITTEN

THE KING OF CATS

WAIFS

FROST-FLOWERS OF THE PAVEMENT

STARS OF THE SNOW

JUNE IN THE SKY

MOTHER EARTH

THE RAIN RAINS EVERY DAY

THE GOOD BY