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 Provenaeal Christmas Postscript," Thomas A. Janvier )
THE PROCESSION OF THE KINGS
MELCHIOR'S RIDE
ONE OF THE TWELVE A Christmas Carol From the Provenaeal of Roumanille
THE WITCH'S CHILD
BABUSHKA ( A Russian Legend )
A CHRISTMAS OFFERING ( Florence, Italy )
CHRISTMAS POST
THE CHRISTMAS SHEAF ( Provenaeal )
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
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
Children of Christmas Edith M. Thomas
BY EDITH M. THOMAS Author of “The Dancers and Other Legends and Lyrics” “Cassia and Other Verse”
BOSTON RICHARD G. BADGER The Gorham Press 1907
Copyright, 1907, by Edith M. Thomas All Rights Reserved
The Gorham Press, Boston
