The Misfit Christmas Puddings
Second Episode
WIDOW M'CARTY'S ABODE MORNING OF THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS
DOWN on the tow-path was a little, weather-beaten shanty that presented a far different setting for the enactments of the coming holiday.
Here, for six sad months, the Widow M'Carty had tried to keep the wolf from the door, but work as she might, her efforts would hardly have frightened an able-bodied weasel.