LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| "Enjoying her father's parting fondling"(page 18) | [Frontispiece] |
| "The great delight of all the children" | [5] |
| "'For my thirteen best customers'" | [11] |
| "She applied herself to the shirts with vigor" | [24] |
| "Imprinted on them a few reminders of maternal solicitude" | [29] |
| "Grandad was speechless" | [32] |
| "'An' are ye insinooatin', Misther Rafferty?'" | [33] |
| "As Katrina passed through the store" | [43] |
| "'I may go, may I not?'" | [45] |
| "'It's samples I have . . .' said Terence, proudly displaying the contents of his bundle" | [60] |
| "To admire the festive preparations" | [64] |
| "And as she sat there Memory came and stood by her" | [65] |
| "Katrina . . . went to work" | [75] |
| "He picked up the card and read" | [78] |
| "Was on his way to the City Hospital" | [81] |
| "'A Merry Christmas from Katrina Baumgärtner!'" | [87] |
| "She placed both puddings in her apron" | [89] |
| "'Gott in Himmel! Donner und Blitzen!'" | [101] |
| "'Twelve cakes to the Widow M'Carty!'" | [104] |
| "Bridget next attacked her father" | [110] |
| "'It's more roometiz for me, so it is'" | [114] |
| "'Ven I smokes dat pipe den I forget dose plum puddings'" | [123] |
| "His glance fell upon something white that lay on the counter" | [127] |
| "'A stick of candy apiece'" | [137] |
| "Katy . . . returned bearing aloft a package" | [154] |
| "Mrs. M'Carty let them hunt" | [156] |
| "The house . . . held more hiding-places than one would have supposed" | [157] |
| "'It's my Michael,—my heart of the world'" | [159] |
The Misfit Christmas Puddings
First Episode
HERR BAUMGÄRTNER'S ESTABLISHMENT EIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS