Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Practical Joke Or the Christmas Story of Uncle Ned
    The Practical Joke Or the Christmas Story of Uncle Ned
    The Practical Joke Or the Christmas Story of Uncle Ned
    Ebook31 pages16 minutes

    The Practical Joke Or the Christmas Story of Uncle Ned

    By William Howland

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    The Practical Joke Or the Christmas Story of Uncle Ned

    Related to The Practical Joke Or the Christmas Story of Uncle Ned

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      White Silence

      Dec 22, 2020

      White Silence
      5 min read

    • Article

      Yuletide Reading

      Sep 24, 2020

      Many classic novels and short stories contains Christmas scenes-merry or otherwise. Can you indentify the works from which these holiday passages are excerpted? 1 “Merry Christmas, little daughters! I’m glad you began at once, and hope you will keep

      3 min read

    • Article

      Merry Christmas: A Reading Of Holiday Classics By Monitor Staff (audio)

      Dec 17, 2019

      A dive into venerable old writings can add to the warmth of the holiday hearth. Even more so when they’re read aloud.

      12 min read

    • Article

      All I Want For Christmas

      Dec 16, 2020

      IT was more than an icicle. More like an icy boulder, oversized and murkily white, faceted like a cartoon jewel and, shortly, dripping. It had lurked beneath a low stone bridge at the bottom of the wood, where sycamore thickets bald for winter gave w

      18 min read

    • Article

      Simply Summer

      Dec 17, 2019

      Simply Summer
      16 min read

    • Article

      In Dad’s Hands

      Nov 24, 2018

      In Dad’s Hands
      5 min read

    • Article

      Chitchat

      Nov 25, 2022

      Write to us and tell us about your move to the platteland or your dreams of doing so, the characters in your town, the things you love… or the things that bug you. Go to platteland.net and click on“English”and then“Contact”to write your letter, or se

      7 min read

    • Article

      My Dinner with Denis Johnson

      Jun 25, 2018

      My Dinner with Denis Johnson
      13 min read

    • Article

      It Happened to Me…

      Feb 22, 2024

      It Happened to Me…
      9 min read

    • Article

      Ready, Set, Let go!

      May 15, 2019

      Ready, Set, Let go!
      11 min read

    • Article

      A Home From Home

      Aug 13, 2021

      A Home From Home
      7 min read

    • Article

      Into The Woods

      Jan 11, 2022

      Into The Woods
      4 min read

    • Article

      Kids Will Ruin Your Life

      Oct 2, 2017

      Kids Will Ruin Your Life
      4 min read

    • Article

      Kids Will Ruin Your Life

      Sep 22, 2017

      Kids Will Ruin Your Life
      4 min read

    • Article

      Feeling Grand?

      Sep 10, 2020

      Feeling Grand?
      6 min read

    • Article

      Mail Bag

      Mar 2, 2023

      Hi Robyn, I am writing to thank you for the book Guardians of Aotearoa which arrived yesterday, Friday. It came as a surprise when I opened it that I had actually won it. I am looking forward to sitting down and reading the stories of these inspiring

      6 min read

    • Article

      Your Letters: What’s The Scuttlebutt?

      May 11, 2023

      Thank you for putting the loon on the cover of the March/April ’23 issue and for sharing “Death of an Icon?” by documentary filmmaker Julia Nunes. CL is leading the way in opening what I hope will become a larger discussion on how we can protect the

      5 min read

    • Article

      Haphazard By Starlight

      Dec 16, 2020

      ADVENT is a time of waiting and we have become a congregation of experts. I nominate the people of Planet Earth for the Nobel Prize for Waiting. Even in a country smaller than Montana, we have modified our motto ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ to ‘Keep Wait

      4 min read

    • Article

      For The Love Of Camping

      Mar 5, 2020

      For The Love Of Camping
      7 min read

    • Article

      Your Letters

      Nov 5, 2020

      Your Letters
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Dullard

      Jun 5, 2019

      The villagers of Yockenthwaite knew him as ‘Jack Dull’, ‘Jack Dolt,’ or sometimes just ‘The Dullard’. His real name was John Dullard, last in a long, illustrious line of Dullards, and a man – so they said – of quite miraculous stupidity. The kind of

      7 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Jul 1, 2018

      Without the adventof Stockholm Syndrome,how could I havelearned to love myself so much? I’m asking Godand New York, can anyonehelp me? (An all-but-audible “or else.”) The captain’s chair:it’s beginning to smella little too much like me. Again.But the

      4 min read

    • Article

      Cliffhanger

      Sep 1, 2019

      Cliffhanger
      7 min read

    Reviews for The Practical Joke Or the Christmas Story of Uncle Ned

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Practical Joke Or the Christmas Story of Uncle Ned - William Howland

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Practical Joke, by Anonymous

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: The Practical Joke

      The Christmas Story of Uncle Ned

      Author: Anonymous

      Illustrator: W. Howland

      Release Date: May 19, 2010 [EBook #32430]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRACTICAL JOKE ***

      Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images

      generously made available by The Internet Archive/American

      Libraries.)

      THE

      PRACTICAL JOKE;

      OR THE

      CHRISTMAS STORY OF UNCLE NED.

      NEW YORK:

      PUBLISHED BY J. S. REDFIELD,

      CLINTON HALL.

      THE PRACTICAL JOKE.

      Welcome, merry Christmas and New-Year! prized by children above all other days in the year. Ye are associated with pleasant recollections of old Santa Claus and sugar-plums—with bright visions of a cheerful fireside, merry games, pleasant stories, and happy, smiling faces. First comes Christmas Eve, when each young face beams with eager curiosity and delightful anticipation—all wondering and guessing what they shall find in their

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1