Walter Ben Hare
AUTHOR OF THE PLAYS
"Aaron Boggs, Freshman," "Abbu San of Old Japan," "Civil Service," "A College Town," "Kicked Out of College,"
"Macbeth à la Mode," "Mrs. Tubbs of Shantytown," "Parlor Matches," "A Poor Married Man,"
"My Irish Rose," "A Rustic Romeo," "Savageland," "A Southern Cinderella," etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY
BUCKTON NENDICK
CHICAGO
T.S. DENISON & COMPANY
Publishers
COPYRIGHT, 1917
BY
EBEN H. NORRIS
MADE IN U.S.A.
From ["Anita's Secret or Christmas in the Steerage"]
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
WITH THE BEST WISHES OF THE AUTHOR
TO
FRANCES MAAS ULLMANN
THE ORIGINAL
"ANITA"
AND
LUDWIG BLOCK ULLMANN
THE ORIGINAL
"JOLLY JACK FROST"
"I have always thought of Christmas time ... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time ... when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely ...; and I say, God bless it!"
Charles Dickens.