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The country Christmas

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A young girl remembers a destitute family she met and keeps hoping to move them from a riverside slum to the country; her persistent sympathy prompts neighbors to consider house-hunting and practical help. The narrative follows everyday domestic episodes—misadventures with pigs, a boy’s visit to a local man, children's squabbles and small triumphs, and preparations for a communal Christmas tree—and shows how kindness, resourcefulness, and community effort reshape the Mulvaneys’ circumstances. Scenes alternate between comic disorder and tender care as the family confronts setbacks and ultimately experiences a Christmas-day reversal that secures a safer, more stable home.

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Title: The country Christmas

Author: Frances Margaret Fox

Illustrator: Etheldred B. Barry

Release date: September 30, 2022 [eBook #69068]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: L. C. Page & company, 1907

Credits: Charlene Taylor, Brian Wilsden and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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