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    Nibsy's Christmas
    Nibsy's Christmas
    Nibsy's Christmas
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    Nibsy's Christmas

    By Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Nibsy's Christmas - Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Nibsy's Christmas, by Jacob A. Riis

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      Title: Nibsy's Christmas

      Author: Jacob A. Riis

      Release Date: August 9, 2006 [EBook #19014]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NIBSY'S CHRISTMAS ***

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      NIBSY'S CHRISTMAS

      Nibsy as Santa Claus.

      BY

      JACOB AUGUST RIIS

      Short Story Index Reprint Series

      BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES PRESS

      FREEPORT, NEW YORK

      First Published 1893

      Reprinted 1969

      STANDARD BOOK NUMBER: 8369-3073-8

      LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 71-90590

      MANUFACTURED BY HALLMARK LITHOGRAPHERS, INC. IN THE U.S.A.

      To Her Most Gracious Majesty

      Louise

      Queen of Denmark

      the friend of the afflicted and the mother of the

      motherless in my childhood's home

      these leaves are inscribed

      with the profound respect and admiration

      of

      the Author

      NIBSY'S CHRISTMAS

      WHAT THE CHRISTMAS SUN SAW IN THE TENEMENTS

      SKIPPY OF SCRABBLE ALLEY

      NIBSY'S CHRISTMAS

      It was Christmas-eve over on the East Side. Darkness was closing in on a cold, hard day. The light that struggled through the frozen windows of the delicatessen store, and the saloon on the corner, fell upon men with empty dinner-pails who were hurrying homeward, their coats buttoned tightly, and heads bent against the steady blast from the river, as if they were butting their way down the street.

      The wind had forced the door of the saloon ajar, and was whistling through the crack; but in there it seemed to make no one afraid. Between roars of laughter, the clink of glasses and the rattle of dice on the hard-wood counter were heard out in the street. More than one of the passers-by who came within range was taken with an extra shiver in which the vision of wife and little ones waiting at home for his coming was snuffed out, as he dropped in to brace up. The lights were long out when the silent streets re-echoed his unsteady steps toward home, where the Christmas welcome had turned to dread.

      But in this twilight hour they burned brightly yet, trying hard to pierce the bitter cold outside with a ray of warmth and cheer. Where the lamps in the delicatessen store made a mottled streak of brightness across the flags, two little boys stood with their noses flattened against the window. Their warm breath made little round holes on the frosty pane, that came and went, affording passing glimpses of the wealth within, of the piles of smoked herring, of golden cheese, of sliced bacon and generous, fat-bellied hams; of the rows of odd-shaped bottles and jars on the shelves that held there was no telling what good things, only it was certain that they must be good from the looks of them.

      And the heavenly smell of spices and things that reached the boys through the open door each time the tinkling bell announced the coming or going of a customer! Better than all, back there on the top shelf the stacks of square honey-cakes, with their frosty coats of sugar, tied in bundles with strips of blue paper.

      The wind blew

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