Arthur Glyn

Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
'A BROTHER'S CHRISTMAS-BOX.'
AND OTHER STORIES
RUTH LAMB
AUTHOR OF DEAR MISS MEG, A WILFUL WARD, HER OWN CHOICE, ONLY A GIRL WIFE, ETC.
LONDON
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
4 BOUVERIE STREET, AND 65 ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD
CONTENTS.
ARTHUR DREAMING.
NOT a bit like Christmas.
Everybody said so to everybody else, and surely, what all agree about must be strictly true. The farmers' wives said it to each other, as they jogged to market with well-filled baskets, containing all sorts of home-fed Christmas cheer. The butcher said it to each customer in turn, as he lightly passed his keen-edged knife outside the yellow rind of his prime Christmas beef, to suggest where the actual incision should be made and the cut severed from the rest.