The country Christmas

Works of
Frances Margaret Fox
L. C. PAGE & COMPANY New England Building, Boston, Mass.
Cosy Corner Series THE COUNTRY CHRISTMAS By Frances Margaret Fox Author of Farmer Brown and the Birds, Little Lady Marjorie, Betty of Old Mackinaw, How Christmas Came to the Mulvaneys, etc. Illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry Boston L. C. Page & Company 1907
Copyright, 1907 By L. C. Page & Company (INCORPORATED)
All rights reserved First Impression, June, 1907 COLONIAL PRESS Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, U. S. A.
THE COUNTRY CHRISTMAS
Sally Brown remembered the Mulvaneys. It was no wonder the child talked of them at first; but, when she had lived in the country two months, her mother and brother Alfred begged her to change the subject.
Give us a rest, was Alfred's repeated command.
Really, Sally, her mother remonstrated one morning, what is the use of thinking of the Mulvaneys all the time? If it did any good I wouldn't say a word, but you only make us uncomfortable without helping them in the least.
Well, mamma, was the reply, you see I can't help hoping.
Hoping, mocked Alfred, hoping for what, I'd like to know?