Christmas - A Story
Gale Zona 1874-1938
English
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CHRISTMAS
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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO
DALLAS · SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.
TORONTO
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[Illustration: "MARY FILLED HER ARMS WITH HAY AND TURNED TO THE
MANGER"]
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CHRISTMAS
A STORY
BY
ZONA GALE
AUTHOR OF "THE LOVES OF PELLEAS AND ETARRE"
"FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE," ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
LEON V. SOLON
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1912
All rights reserved
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COPYRIGHT, 1912,
BY THE McCLURE PUBLICATIONS, INCORPORATED.
COPYRIGHT, 1912,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1912.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
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ILLUSTRATIONS
"Mary filled her arms with hay, and turned to the
manger" Frontispiece
FACING
PAGE
"He stood looking at it from part way across the road" 76
"Across the still fields came flashing the point of
flame" 110
"The children began to sing, 'Go bury Saint Nicklis'" 150
"Their way led east between high banks of snow" 200
"The three men stepped into the lamplight" 240
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CHRISTMAS
I
It was in October that Mary Chavah burned over the grass of her lawn,
and the flame ran free across the place where in Spring her wild flower
bed was made. Two weeks later she had there a great patch of purple
violets. And all Old Trail Town, which takes account of its neighbours'
flowers, of the migratory birds, of eclipses, and the like, came to see
the wonder.
"Mary Chavah!" said most of the village, "you're the luckiest woman
alive. If a miracle was bound to happen, it'd get itself happened to
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