The
Boy
Who
Brought
Christmas
“‘We reckoned, Grover Cleveland and me did, that this yersprigged pattern would be becomin’ to your build’”
The Boy
Who Brought
Christmas
by
Alice Morgan
Illustrated by
John Jackson
Garden City New York
Doubleday, Page
& Company
1911
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY PERRY MASON & COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY ALICE MORGAN
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author wishes to thank the Editors ofThe American Press Association for theirkind permission to reprint Chapters I and IIof this story; and the Editors of The Youth’sCompanion for their courtesy in permittingthe republication of Chapters III and IV.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | THE ITINERANT CHRISTMAS TREE | 3 |
| II. | CREEDS AND DEEDS | 41 |
| III. | UNCONSCIOUS MENTALITY | 72 |
| IV. | OLD-TIME RELIGION | 101 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| “‘We reckoned, Grover Cleveland and me did, that this yer sprigged pattern would be becomin’ to your build’” | Frontispiece |