Chapter I: Front Matter

By Abbie Farwell Brown

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HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK

THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL

THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL

BY

ABBIE FARWELL BROWN

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY REGINALD BIRCH

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

_Published October 1910_

SECOND IMPRESSION

CONTENTS

I. THE PLAY BOX 1

II. JACK-IN-THE-BOX 8

III. THE FLANTON DOG 12

IV. NOAH'S ARK 15

V. MIRANDA 20

VI. THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL 25

VII. BEFORE THE FIRE 32

VIII. JACK AGAIN 37

IX. THE DOG AGAIN 44

X. NOAH AGAIN 49

XI. MIRANDA AGAIN 53

XII. THE ANGEL AGAIN 62

XIII. THE CHRISTMAS CANDLE 68

XIV. TOM 73

XV. CHRISTMAS DAY 76

ILLUSTRATIONS

YOU HANG IT ON THE TREE, ANGELINA (page 26) _Frontispiece_

SHE LOOKED UP AND DOWN THE STREET 22

_PING!_ OUT SPRANG THE JACK-IN-THE-BOX 42

BOB COOPER SAVES THE BABY 46

HE GRASPED A RAILING TO STEADY HIMSELF 64

MARY RETURNS THE DOLL 78

_From drawings by Reginald Birch_

THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL