Jimsy: The Christmas Kid
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Leona Dalrymple was an early 20th-century American writer of novels, short stories, and plays. This charming Christmas tale takes place two days before Christmas. On that day, Jimsy, an orphan boy, is taken in by Abner Sawyer and his wife. This unconventional family spends the holidays learning to adapt, love, and understand the meaning of the season.
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Jimsy - Leona Dalrymple
Leona Dalrymple
Jimsy: The Christmas Kid
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4064066239510
Table of Contents
I
THE INVASION
II
THE BISCUIT LINK
III
THE CHAIN GROWS
IV
THE CHAIN CLANKS
V
THE PROVING
VI
THE TRIUMPH
VII
THE DOWNFALL
VIII
THE CHAIN IS LOCKED
I
Table of Contents
THE INVASION
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His name was Jimsy and he took it for granted that you liked him. That made things difficult from the very start—that and the fact that he arrived in the village two days before Christmas strung to such a holiday pitch of expectation that, if you were a respectable, bewhiskered first citizen like Jimsy's host, you felt the cut-and-dried dignity of a season which unflinching thrift had taught you to pare of all its glittering non-essentials, threatened by his bubbling air of faith in something wonderful to happen.
He had arrived at twilight, just as the first citizen was about to read his evening paper, and he had made a great deal of noise, yelling back at old Austin White, whose sleigh had conveyed him from the station to the house, a S'long, Uncle!
pregnant with the friendliness of a conversational ride. He had scraped away his snow-heels with a somewhat sustained noise, born perhaps of shyness, and now, as he stood in the center of the prim, old-fashioned room, a thin, eager youngster not too warmly clad for the bite of the New England wind, Abner Sawyer felt with a sense of shock that this city urchin whom Judith had promised to Christmas,
detracted, in some ridiculous manner, from the respectability of the room. He was an inharmonious note in its staid preciseness. Moreover, it was evident from the frank friendliness of his dark, gray eyes that he was perniciously of that type who frolic through a frosty, first-citizen aura of informality and give and accept friendship as a matter of course.
What—what is your name?
asked the first citizen, peering over his spectacles. He wished that Judith's Christmas protégé was not so thin and a trifle larger.
Jimsy,
answered the boy. An' Specks, he's me chum; he goes to Mister Middleton's, next door.
Specks and Jimsy! The first citizen helplessly cleared his throat and summoned Judith.
She came in a spotless apron no whiter than her hair. She