Contents

I The Bayonet-Poker

II On Being a Doctrinaire

III Christmas and the Literature of Disillusion

IV The Ignominy of Being Grown-up

V Christmas and the Spirit of Democracy

Title: By the Christmas Fire

Author: Samuel McChord Crothers

Language: English

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BY THE CHRISTMAS FIRE, By SAMUEL McCHORD CROTHERS, BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY MCMXII

COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY SAMUEL McCHORD CROTHERS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published November 1908

To O. L. F.

A CHEERFUL FIRE-WORSHIPER