Little Wolff’s Wooden Shoes. FOSTER Once upon a time–so long ago that everybody has forgotten the date–in a city in the north of Europe–with such a hard name that nobody can ever remember it–there was a little seven-year-old boy named Wolff, whose parents were dead, who lived with a cross and stingy old aunt, who…
WINIFRED M. KIRKLAND It was to be a glorious Christmas at Doctor Brower’s. All “the children”–little Peggy and her mother always spoke of the grown-up ones as “the children”–were coming home. Mabel was coming from Ohio with her big husband and her two babies, Minna and little Robin, the year-old grandson whom the home family…
RAYMOND MC ALDEN There was once in a faraway country where few people have ever travelled, a wonderful church. It stood on a high hill in the midst of a great city; and every Sunday, as well as on sacred days like Christmas, thousands of people climbed the hill to its great archways, looking like…
ADAPTED FROM THE BIBLE And there were shepherds in the same country abiding in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock. And an angel of the Lord stood by them and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Be…
