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    On Christmas Day in the Morning
    On Christmas Day in the Morning
    On Christmas Day in the Morning
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    On Christmas Day in the Morning

    By C. M. (Charles M.) Relyea and Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateOct 1, 2007
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      On Christmas Day in the Morning - C. M. (Charles M.) Relyea

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      Title: On Christmas Day in the Morning

      Author: Grace S. Richmond

      Illustrator: Charles M. Relyea

      Release Date: December 26, 2006 [EBook #20187]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ON CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE MORNING ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sankar Viswanathan, and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      'I HAVEN'T GIVEN YOU ANY CHRISTMAS PRESENT. WILL—I—DO?'

      On

      Christmas Day

      in the Morning

      By

      GRACE S. RICHMOND

      Illustrated by

      CHARLES M. RELYEA

      Garden City               New York

      DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

      MCMXI

      Copyright, 1905, by

      The Ridgway-Thayer Company

      Copyright, 1908, by

      Doubleday, Page & Company

      Illustrations

      On Christmas Day in the Morning

      And all the angels in heaven do sing,

      On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;

      And all the bells on earth do ring,

      On Christmas Day in the morning.

      —Old Song.

      That Christmas Day virtually began a whole year beforehand, with a red-hot letter written by Guy Fernald to his younger sister, Nan, who had been married to Samuel Burnett just two and one-half years. The letter was read aloud by Mrs. Burnett to her husband at the breakfast table, the second day after Christmas. From start to finish it was upon one subject, and it read as follows:

      Dear Nan:

      It's a confounded, full-grown shame that not a soul of us all got home for Christmas—except yours truly, and he only for a couple of hours. What have the blessed old folks done to us that we treat them like this? I was invited to the Sewalls' for the day, and went, of course—you know why. We had a ripping time, but along toward evening I began

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