Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 163
delicious smellof the cheese overcame his caution ; heconcluded there could be no danger in taking thesmallest nibble. No sooner, however, had hetouched the tempting morsel, than the trap felland he was a prisoner. Alas! said he to his weeping mother, whohad hastened to the trap upon learning the… … (A Christmas Story.) fHAT is Christmaswithout Santa Claus ?Itlookedvcry muchas if Jack andErne Hillscombewere soon to find1 out what such aChristmas wouldbe ; for it was al-ready Christmas-eve, andthe house where the twochildren lived was filled with the usual goodcheer, and all the bustle of…
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