{"product_id":"2940013270640","title":"BIG BOOK OF CLASSIC CHRISTMAS TALES: Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse - Charles Dickens,The Fir-Tree - Hans Christian Andersen,The Christmas Masquerade - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,The Shepherds and the Angels - Adapted from the Bills, and many more...","description":"SNEAK PEAK:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eChristmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse - Charles Dickens\u003cbr\u003eThe Fir-Tree - Hans Christian Andersen\u003cbr\u003eThe Christmas Masquerade - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman\u003cbr\u003eThe Shepherds and the Angels - Adapted from the Bills\u003cbr\u003eThe Telltale Tile - Olive Thorne Miller\u003cbr\u003eLittle Girl's Christmas - By Winnifred E. Lincoln\u003cbr\u003eA Christmas Matinee - M.A.L. Lane\u003cbr\u003eToinette and the Elves - Susan Coolidge\u003cbr\u003eThe Voyage of the Wee Red Cap. By Ruth Sawyer Durand\u003cbr\u003eA Story of the Christ-Child (a German Legend for Christmas Eve) - Elizabeth Harrison Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman\u003cbr\u003eWhy the Chimes Rang - Raymond McAlden\u003cbr\u003eThe Birds'Christmas (founded on fact) - F.E. Mann\u003cbr\u003eThe Little Sister's Vacation - Winifred M. Kirkland\u003cbr\u003eLittle Wolff's Wooden Shoes - Francois Coppee, adapted and translated by Alma J. Foster Christmas in the Alley - Olive Thorne Miller\u003cbr\u003eA Christmas Star - Katherine Pyle\u003cbr\u003eThe Queerest Christmas - Grace Margaret Gallaher\u003cbr\u003eOld Father Christmas - J.H. Ewing\u003cbr\u003eA Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens\u003cbr\u003eHow Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats - Elia W. Peattie\u003cbr\u003eThe Legend of Babouscka - From the Russian Folk Tale\u003cbr\u003eChristmas in the Barn - F. Arnstein\u003cbr\u003eThe Philanthropist's Christmas - James Weber Linn\u003cbr\u003eThe First Christmas-Tree - Lucy Wheelock\u003cbr\u003eThe First New England Christmas - G.L. Stone and M.G. Fickett\u003cbr\u003eThe Cratchits' Christmas Dinner - Charles Dickens\u003cbr\u003eChristmas in Seventeen Seventy-Six - Anne Hollingsworth Wharton\u003cbr\u003eChristmas Under the Snow - Olive Thorne Miller\u003cbr\u003eMr. Bluff's Experience of Holidays - Oliver Bell Bunce\u003cbr\u003eMaster Sandy's Snapdragon - Elbridge S. Brooks\u003cbr\u003eA Christmas Fairy - John Strange Winter\u003cbr\u003eThe Greatest of These - Joseph Mills Hanson\u003cbr\u003eLittle Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe - Elizabeth Harrison\u003cbr\u003eBig Rattle - Theodore Goodridge Roberts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. CHRISTMAS AT FEZZIWIG'S WAREHOUSE\u003cbr\u003eCHARLES DICKENS \u003cbr\u003e\"Yo Ho! my boys,\" said Fezziwig. \"No more work to-night! Christmas Eve, Dick! Christmas, Ebenezer! Let's have the shutters up!\" cried old Fezziwig with a sharp clap of his hands, \"before a man can say Jack Robinson. . . .\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hilli-ho!\" cried old Fezziwig, skipping down from the high desk with wonderful agility. \"Clear away, my lads, and let's have lots of room here! Hilli-ho, Dick! Cheer-up, Ebenezer!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClear away! There was nothing they wouldn't have cleared away, or couldn't have cleared away with old Fezziwig looking on. It was done in a minute. Every movable was packed off, as if it were dismissed from public life forevermore; the floor was swept and watered, the lamps were trimmed, fuel was heaped upon the fire; and the warehouse was as snug, and warm, and dry, and bright a ballroom as you would desire to see on a winter's night.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn came a fiddler with a music book, and went up to the lofty desk and made an orchestra of it and tuned like fifty stomach-aches. In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. In came the three Misses Fezziwig, beaming and lovable. In came the six followers whose hearts they broke. In came all the young men and women employed in the business. In came the housemaid with her cousin the baker. In came the cook with her brother's particular friend the milkman. In came the boy from over the way, who was suspected of not having board enough from his master, trying to hide himself behind the girl from next door but one who was proved to have had her ears pulled by her mistress; in they all came, anyhow and everyhow. Away they all went, twenty couple at once; hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping, old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them.\u003cbr\u003eWhen this result was brought about the fiddler struck up \"Sir Roger de Coverley.\" Then old Fezziwig stood out to dance with Mrs. Fezziwig. Top couple, too, with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pairs of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance and had no notion of walking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut if they had been thrice as many--oh, four times as many--old Fezziwig would have been a match for them, and so would Mrs. Fezziwig. As to her, she was worthy to be his partner in every sense of the term. If that's not high praise, tell me higher and I'll use it. A positive light appeared to issue from Fezziwig's calves. They shone in every part of the dance like moons. You couldn't have predicted at any given time what would become of them next. And when old Fezziwig and Mrs. Fezziwig had gone all through the dance, advance and retire; both hands to your partner, bow and courtesy, corkscrew, thread the needle, and back again to your place;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTO BE CONTINUED... Buy now and get all the Tales!","brand":"S.H.W.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157904802032,"sku":"2940013270640","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013270640_p0.jpg?v=1763579046","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013270640","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}