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    Christmas, A Happy Time A Tale, Calculated for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Persons
    Christmas, A Happy Time A Tale, Calculated for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Persons
    Christmas, A Happy Time A Tale, Calculated for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Persons
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    Christmas, A Happy Time A Tale, Calculated for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Persons

    By Alicia Catherine Mant

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    Christmas, A Happy Time A Tale, Calculated for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Persons

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      Christmas, A Happy Time A Tale, Calculated for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Persons - Alicia Catherine Mant

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Christmas, A Happy Time, by Miss Mant

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      Title: Christmas, A Happy Time

      A Tale, Calculated for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Persons

      Author: Miss Mant

      Release Date: December 27, 2006 [EBook #20200]

      Language: English

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      They both turned pale when they saw the dog almost immediately disappear under the ice. see page 36.

      CHRISTMAS,

      A HAPPY TIME:

      A Tale,

      CALCULATED FOR

      THE AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION

      OF

      YOUNG PERSONS.

      BY MISS MANT.

      LONDON:

      T. ALLMAN, 42, HOLBORN HILL,

      1832.

      CHRISTMAS,

      A HAPPY TIME.

      Harriet and Elizabeth Mortimer were two very pretty, and generally speaking, very good little girls. Their kind papa and mamma had taken a great deal of pains that they should be good, and it was very seldom that they vexed them by being otherwise. A very happy time was now expected in the family at Beech Grove, by the arrival of John and Frederick Mortimer from school: it was within a few days of Christmas; and as the sisters and brothers had never, till the last few months, been separated, their meeting together again was looked forward to with general and lively pleasure.

      'Do you see anything of the stage, Elizabeth?' said Harriet to her sister, who had been running down to the end of the plantation to peep over the gate, and listen if she could hear the approach of wheels.

      'No: there is nothing in sight,' replied Elizabeth, whose teeth chattered from the cold, while her hands were so benumbed, she could scarcely close the gate, which she had ventured to open about half an inch.

      'They will never come,' said Harriet; 'but you should not open the gate, you know papa and mamma both told us we should not do that. And how cold you are! you are all over in a shiver. Come let us have a run round, and that will warm you. Remember mamma begged of us not to stand still in this sharp cutting wind.'

      'Yes, so she did,' replied Elizabeth; 'and indeed it is very, very cold, down at that corner. And they will not come any the sooner for our standing there.'

      And according to Harriet's proposal, the two little girls began to run round the grounds, which put them in a complete glow; and Elizabeth's fingers very soon ceased to ache with cold.

      As they passed the green house, they saw the gardener matting up some myrtles on the outside; and Elizabeth stopped,

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