Chapter I: Front Matter

THE CHRISTMAS REINDEER

THE CHRISTMAS
REINDEER

BY
THORNTON W. BURGESS

ILLUSTRATED BY
RHODA CHASE

NEW YORK
THE BOOK LEAGUE OF AMERICA
1929

COPYRIGHT, 1926,
BY THORNTON W. BURGESS

All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction
in whole or in part in any form.

Set up and electrotyped.
Published October, 1926.
Reprinted August, 1928.

_Special edition published by arrangement with
The Macmillan Company._

_Printed in the United States of America_

DEDICATION

To the beautiful faith of childhood, the perpetuation of a charming fable, and to a world made better by the Christmas spirit, this little volume is dedicated.

THE AUTHOR

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. TUKTU AND AKLAK 3

II. KRINGLE VALLEY 9

III. TUKTU’S SOFT HEART 16

IV. WHITEFOOT GOES ASTRAY 22

V. LOST IN THE FOG 29

VI. THE AWAKENING OF TUKTU 34

VII. THE GREAT MILL 39

VIII. THE GOOD SPIRIT 45

IX. THE CHOSEN DEER 52

X. TUKTU’S HAPPY THOUGHT 57

XI. TUKTU TELLS HER STORY 62

XII. THE DEER PEOPLE 67

XIII. THE WILFUL YOUNG DEER 73

XIV. WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG 81

XV. THE FIRST REINDEER 87

XVI. LITTLE SPOT AND TUKTU DREAM 93

XVII. TUKTU AND AKLAK HAVE A SECRET 100

XVIII. THE ROUND-UP 107

XIX. THE CHRISTMAS STORY 113

XX. THE GREAT TEMPTATION 118

XXI. ATTACKED BY WOLVES 123

XXII. THE CHRISTMAS INVITATION 128

XXIII. THE CHRISTMAS VISION 134

ILLUSTRATIONS

Whitefoot goes astray _Frontispiece_

Page

Kutok watching the herd 11

Aklak goes hunting 23

Tuktu and Santa Claus 47

“They are wolves” 79

Tuktu making boots with her mother 95

Tuktu watching Aklak train a young deer 103

THE CHRISTMAS REINDEER