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christmas stories
purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free . this is an ocr edition with typos . excerpt from book a cheistmas teee . 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 were french polished tables chairs bedsteads wardrobes eight day clocks and various other articles of domestic furniture wonderfully made in tin at wolverhampton perched among the boughs as if in preparation for some fairy housekeeping ; there were jolly broad faced little men much more agreeable in appearance than many real menand no wonder for their heads took off and showed them to be full of sugar plums ; there were fiddles and drums ; there were tambourines books work . boxes paint boxes sweetmeat boxes peep show boxes and all kinds of boxes ; there were trinkets for the elder girls far brighter than any grown up gold and jewels ; there were baskets and pincushions in all devices ; there were guns swords and banners ; there were witches standing in enchanted rings of pasteboard to tell fortunes ; there were teetotums humming tops needle cases pen wipers smelling bottles conversation cards bouquet holders ; real fruit made artificially dazzling with gold leaf ; imitation apples pears and walnuts crammed with surprises ; in short as a pretty child before me delightedly whispered to another pretty child her bosom friend there was everything and more . this motley collection of odd objects ...
paperback cambridge scholars publishing 2009 isbn13 9781443811064 isbn10 1443811068
abridged n isbn 13 9781443811064 number in series 1 number of pages 624 publisher cambridge scholars publishing release date 62135769600000