| I |
| CHILDREN OF CHRISTMAS |
| Cradle Song | 9 |
| How Many | 9 |
| Her Christmas Present | 10 |
| A Christmas Spy | 11 |
| Refreshments for Santa Claus | 12 |
| How the Christmas Tree was brought to Nome | 12 |
| Holly and Mistletoe | 15 |
| The Firebrand | 15 |
| The Foundling | 17 |
| Meeting the Kings | 19 |
| The Procession of the Kings | 24 |
| Melchior’s Ride | 25 |
| One of the Twelve | 26 |
| The Witch’s Child | 28 |
| Babushka | 31 |
| A Christmas Offering | 33 |
| Christmas Post | 33 |
| The Christmas Sheaf | 34 |
| The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf | 36 |
| What the Pine Trees Said | 36 |
| Two Child Angels | 37 |
| The Old Doll | 38 |
| II |
| OTHER CHILDREN |
| The Apple-blossom Switch | 41 |
| The Indignant Baby | 42 |
| A Question of Spelling | 42 |
| “Yours Severely” | 43 |
| A Lack of Attention | 43 |
| “I Ought to Mustn’t” | 44 |
| A Vain Regret | 44 |
| In the Dark Little Flat | 44 |
| The Little Girl from Town | 45 |
| For Every Day | 46 |
| The Day-Dreamer | 47 |
| Born Deaf, Dumb, and Blind | 48 |
| The Cradle-Child | 49 |
| Some Ladies of the Olden Time | 50 |
| A Water-Lily | 51 |
| The Kinderbank | 51 |
| Buonamico | 54 |
| The Prince and the Whipping-Boy | 57 |
| Master Corvus | 59 |
| “P. Abbott” | 62 |
| The Giant’s Daughter | 64 |
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