Books with author George Shinn

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Excerpt from Stories for the Happy Days of Christmas TimeThe stories are printed in the hope that they may add to the Christmas joy of other homes and especially of other.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ <title> Stories For The Happy Days Of Christmas Time<author> George Wolfe Shinn<publisher> T. Whittaker, 1879<subjects> Religion; Holidays; Christmas & Advent; Christmas stories; Fiction / Anthologies; Religion / Holidays / Christmas & Advent

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Excerpt from Stories for the Happy Days of Christmas TimeThe stories are printed in the hope that they may add to the Christmas joy of other homes and especially of other.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...We hardly recognize him, so greatly has he changed. And who is that with him, carrying things for the workmen? Surely we know his face. Why, bless us, it is Dick Lay! 12. And now it is Christmas Eve again, and a happy group of children and older people are preparing the decorations of the chapel in Winskogan. "The little Englishers" are there, directing hitherto untutored hands in the mysteries of trimming the evergreens about the windows, the arches, and the doors, and putting a glowing inscription on the walls. Bobby Bounce's father has remembered the story his mother told him so long ago. It is all fresh now, and he is here to help. His shrillvoiced wife has somehow or other toned down to a more modest pitch, and her shrill scream is seldom heard. She is helping too. Why, they are all helping! Great strong men, and as strong women, whom hardship and past excesses had once well nigh brutalized are there to-night, grown gentler, and, if we may judge by their eager interest to-night, they will welcome the glad Christmas morning with a joy they have never known before. But hark! The trimming has ceased. Sweet strains of music are float ing through the little chapel this Christmas Eve. 13. Hark! They are singing a carol! Louder and louder it grows as one and another takes up the strain. New voices have caught the melody. Bob Rounce and Dick Lay, and many more who a year ago knew not the glad tidings, are now singing with gladness this Christmas Eve. We know not whether choirs of angels come again to earth, but we can almost fancy as these voices in the chapel stop their singing that an angel' host have taken up the old song, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will towards men." 14 HOW THE CREW OF THE SEA GULL SPENT CHRI...