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    Little Tales of The Desert
    Little Tales of The Desert
    Little Tales of The Desert
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    Little Tales of The Desert

    By Ethel Twycross Foster and Hernando G. Villa

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateSep 1, 2007

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      Little Tales of The Desert - Ethel Twycross Foster

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      Title: Little Tales of The Desert

      Author: Ethel Twycross Foster

      Illustrator: Hernando G. Villa

      Release Date: December 15, 2009 [EBook #30686]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE TALES OF THE DESERT ***

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      LITTLE TALES OF THE DESERT

      By

      ETHEL TWYCROSS FOSTER, L. L. B.

      Member Suffolk Bar

      ————

      Illustrations by

      HERNANDO G. VILLA

      PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR

      LOS ANGELES, CAL.

      Copyright 1913 by Ethel T. Foster

      KINGSLEY, MASON AND COLLINS CO.

      PRINTERS AND BINDERS

      LOS ANGELES

      Contents

      Christmas on the Desert

      CHRISTMAS ON THE DESERT

      ARY was worried. To-morrow would be Christmas. Christmas! a day always spent close to New York City, that place where Santa Claus obtained all the contents of his wonderful pack. Here she was, out in the heart of the great Arizona Desert. Her little head was sorely puzzled over many things. Around her were sand, rocks and mountains; no snow, no ice, save on the tops of the distant peaks. How was Santa to draw his gift-laden sleigh over barren stretches of sage brush and sand? Besides, he surely would be far too warm, with his heavy fur coat and cap, to say nothing of the poor reindeer who could scarcely live in such a country.

      Mary and her mother had joined her father at his mine, where they were going to spend the winter, sleeping in a tent, eating in a tent, but spending the remainder of the time out of doors, under the clear, blue sky and breathing the sweet, pure air.

      Mary enjoyed all these things and no troubled thought crossed her mind until the approach of Christmas. She sought counsel with her mother, but Mother merely looked wise and said wait. Mothers, somehow, seem to know all about these things and Mary had great confidence in hers, and so she ceased to worry, but still she wondered.

      Christmas Eve at last arrived and Mary with many misgivings retired early, as children often do in order to hasten the coming of the

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