Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE COUNTRY CHRISTMAS

Works of

Frances Margaret Fox

Farmer Brown and the Birds $.50
The Little Giant's Neighbours .50
Mother Nature's Little Ones .50
Betty of Old Mackinaw .50
Brother Billy .50
How Christmas Came to the Mulvaneys .50
The Country Christmas .50
Little Lady Marjorie 1.50

L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
New England Building, Boston, Mass.

(_See page 99_)]

Cosy Corner Series

THE COUNTRY
CHRISTMAS

By
Frances Margaret Fox

Author of
"Farmer Brown and the Birds," "Little Lady
Marjorie," "Betty of Old Mackinaw," "How Christmas
Came to the Mulvaneys," etc.

_Illustrated by_
Etheldred B. Barry

_Boston_

_L. C. Page & Company_

_1907_

_Copyright, 1907_
BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

_All rights reserved_

First Impression, June, 1907

_COLONIAL PRESS_
_Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, U. S. A._

CHAPTER PAGE

I. HOPE FOR THE MULVANEYS 1

II. SALLY BROWN'S NEW IDEA 11

III. HOUSE-HUNTING 18

IV. TOM MAKES A SUGGESTION 28

V. SOMETHING HAPPENED 35

VI. HOW STUBBINS WENT TO SEE MR. HODGKINS 46

VII. PIGS IN THE ATTIC 54

VIII. STUBBINS AND CHINKY LEARN THEIR NAMES 63

IX. HANNAH'S PINK DRESS 69

X. THE HOME THAT WAS LOST ON CHRISTMAS DAY 77

XI. MRS. MULVANEY'S AIR CASTLE 86

XII. WELCOME HODGKINS CHOOSES THE CHRISTMAS TREE 93

XIII. ON THE TRAIL OF SANTA CLAUS 101

XIV. THE HOME THAT WAS FOUND ON CHRISTMAS DAY 107

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CHOOSING THE CHRISTMAS TREE (_See page 99_) _Frontispiece_

"'HE PUT ON ONE OF HER NEW DRESSES'" 7

"POINTING TO A DILAPIDATED WEATHER-BEATEN
STRUCTURE ALMOST HIDDEN FROM VIEW" 19

"WHEREUPON HE WAS TAKEN IN HAND" 42

"THEN BEGAN A WILD RIDE" 52

"A CLEANER IF NOT A BETTER BOY" 59

"JOINED HER FAMILY BENEATH AN APPLE-TREE" 73

"LAUGHING SOFTLY AS SHE ROCKED" 90

"THE NEXT DAY CHINKY SHARPENED HIS HATCHET" 103

"THE SEVEN STOOD IN A ROW" 107

THE COUNTRY CHRISTMAS