By Charles Dickens
This new choice of Dickens's Christmas writings confirms his lasting impact upon our concept of the Christmas spirit: that Christmas is a time for party, charity, and reminiscence. as well as the loved A Christmas Carol, this quantity contains such festive works as "Christmas Festivities," "The tale of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," "A Christmas Tree," "The Seven terrible Travellers," The Haunted guy and the Ghost's cut price, and a Christmas episode from grasp Humphrey's Clock.
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They were all shivery about it. Then my father came home. He’d been to the police station on the way home, too. He said, ‘The cops took a description. ’ “That night was just like the one before. My old man and my mother sitting side by side, only my father didn’t do any talking that second night. They left the light on all night again. The next day my old man went back to the station house. Well, the cops sent a dick to question the kids on the block, and a cop came and talked to my mother. Finally they said they’d keep their eyes open.
She could lick nearly everybody in the lot. She was the best marble shot I ever saw. ” Harry looked up. “I didn’t know you had a sister. ” “I don’t know,” said Jim. ” “No. It was funny—I don’t mean funny. ” Harry laid his pencil down. “Well, I can tell you about it,” said Jim. “Her name was May. She was a year older than I was. We always slept in the kitchen. Each had a cot. When May was about fourteen and I was thirteen, she hung a sheet across the corner to make a kind of a little closet to dress and undress behind.
Their yells came faintly through the closed window. “I used to play in lots when I was a kid,” Jim said. “Seems to me we fought most of the time. ” Harry did not pause in his writing. “Sure they do,” he said. “I look out and see ’em down there. ” “I used to have a sister,” Jim went on. “She could lick nearly everybody in the lot. She was the best marble shot I ever saw. ” Harry looked up. “I didn’t know you had a sister. ” “I don’t know,” said Jim. ” “No. It was funny—I don’t mean funny. ” Harry laid his pencil down.
