Christmas Stories

The A Child's Christmas in Wales One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner...	The Vertical Fields On Christmas Eve around 1942, when I was a boy, after having the traditional punch and cookies...
Brothers God sent Adam and Eve away from the Garden of Eden...	Markheim "Yes," said the dealer, "our windfalls are of various kinds. Some customers are ignorant, and then I touch a dividend on my superior knowledge..
The Gift of the Magi One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies...	The Overeating Elf Once there was an elf named Frez that would get so nervous during Christmas time that he would eat two lunches at the elf cafeteria...
The Joy of Giving Reggie's brother gave him an automobile as a Christmas present...	The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second morning after Christmas...