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In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World By: Harrison S. Morris (1856-1948) |
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[Illustration: The Yule log glow] IN THE
YULE LOG GLOW CHRISTMAS TALES FROM
'ROUND THE WORLD
"Sic as folk tell ower at a winter ingle"
Scott
EDITED BY
HARRISON S. MORRIS
THREE VOLUMES IN ONE. Book I.
PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1900.
Copyright, 1891, by J. B. Lippincott Company. Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.
THE THRESHOLD.
If, gentle reader, you will step across this threshold, now, as the moon
rises in the keen Christmas air, and will find a place by the ruddy
ingle within doors, you may hear, if you will, a Babel of voices from
many lands, telling over the adventures of the road and falling into the
good fellowship of the happy Christmas season. Here from the north, with his ample furs thrown back, sits the Russian
in friendly talk with a gay little wanderer from Sicilian valleys.
There, with elbow crooked by a foaming tankard, leans the German,
narrating his perils and pleasures to a gallant Frenchman and a
sunbrowned Spaniard who smoke and chatter together as now and then
Mynheer stops for a pull at his pipe. A Swede, Norwegians, an Englishman or two, and even a happy go lucky
American, are clustered about the Yule log; for the place you have
entered is the common room of the wide world. As you slip the latch and take your seat, some traveller calls out: A
Merry Christmas! Another cries: A story, a story! and so they fall to,
each from his own scrip taking forth a native tale, and so they sit the
midnight out listening and talking in turn; while the good cheer goes
round in endless abundance and laughter and song make interludes for the
varied narratives.
CONTENTS OF BOOK I.
The Three Kings of Cologne A modern version of an old English Chronicle. By Harrison S. Morris.
The Three Christmas Masses From the French of Alphonse Daudet. By Harrison S. Morris.
A Russian Christmas Party[A] By Count Léon Tolstoi.
Two Christmases From the German of Georg Schuster.
A Tale of a Turkey By Harrison S. Morris.
A Still Christmas[B] By Agnes Repplier.
Thrond From the Norwegian of Björnson.
Christmas in the Desert By Matilda Betham Edwards. [A] By courtesy of Messrs. W. S. Gottsberger & Co. [B] By courtesy of "The Catholic World."
ILLUSTRATIONS, BOOK I.
The Yule log Glow Frontispiece. Sonia The Cavalier From France My Little Sister Mary
A Tale Spoken by a Graybeard Out of the East. "Gracious powers! Perhaps you are a hundred years old, now I think of
it! You look more than a hundred. Yes, you may be a thousand years old
for what I know." Thackeray.
THE THREE KINGS OF COLOGNE. A CHRISTMAS TALE FROM AN OLD ENGLISH CHRONICLE. (Written by John of Hildesheim in the Fourteenth Century.) Here followeth the manner and form of seeking and offering; and also of
the burying and translations of the three Holy and Worshipful Kings of
Cologne: Jaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar.
Now when the Children of Israel were gone out of Egypt and had won and
made subject to them Jerusalem and all the land lying about, so that no
man durst set against them in all that country for dread that they had
of them; then was there a little hill called Vaws, which was also called
the Hill of Victory, and on this hill the ward of them of Ind was
ordained and kept by divers sentinels by night and by day against the
Children of Israel, and afterward against the Romans; so that if any
people at any time purposed with strong hand to enter into the country
of the Kingdom of Ind, anon, sentinels of other hills about, through
tokens, warned the keepers on the hill of Vaws. And by night they made a
great fire and by day they made a great smoke, for that hill Vaws
passeth the height of all other hills in all the East. Wherefore, when
any such token was seen, then all manner of men made ready to defend
themselves from the enemy that approached... Continue reading book >>
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