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    Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas
    Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas
    Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas
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    Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas

    By Rupert Hughes

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas - Rupert Hughes

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      Title: Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas

      Author: Rupert Hughes

      Release Date: September 21, 2007 [EBook #22696]

      Language: English

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      Last night I ate a horrible mockery of a Christmas dinner in a deserted restaurant

      Colonel

      Crockett's

      Co-operative

      Christmas

      By

      Rupert Hughes

      Philadelphia and London

      George W Jacobs and Company

      COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY

      GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY

      Published September, 1906

      All rights reserved

      Printed in U. S. A.

      f all the strange gatherings that have distinguished Madison Square Garden, the strangest was probably on the occasion, last Christmas, when the now well-known Colonel D. A. Crockett, of Waco, rented the vast auditorium for one thousand dollars, and threw it open to the public. As he is going to do it again this coming Christmas, an account of the con-, in-, and re-ception of his scheme may interest some of the thousands who find themselves every Christmas in the Colonel's plight. My plan to describe it was frustrated by the receipt, from his wife, of three letters he wrote her. It seems only fair, then, that the author of an achievement which is likely to become an institution should be allowed to be the author of its history. I shall, therefore, content myself with publishing verbatim two of the Colonel's own letters.

      Rupert Hughes

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