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    The Pumpkin Glory & Other Christmas Stories
    The Pumpkin Glory & Other Christmas Stories
    The Pumpkin Glory & Other Christmas Stories
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    The Pumpkin Glory & Other Christmas Stories

    By William Dean Howells

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    Musaicum Books presents the Musaicum Christmas Specials. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for this joyful and charming holiday season, for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale.
    Table of Contents:
    Christmas Every Day
    Turkeys Turning the Tables
    The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express
    The Pumpkin Glory
    Butterflyfutterby and Flutterbybutterfly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMusaicum Books
    Release dateDec 17, 2020
    ISBN4064066385026
    The Pumpkin Glory & Other Christmas Stories
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    William Dean Howells

    William Dean Howells was a realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings.

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      The Pumpkin Glory & Other Christmas Stories - William Dean Howells

      William Dean Howells

      The Pumpkin Glory & Other Christmas Stories

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      Table of Contents

      Christmas Every Day

      Turkeys Turning the Tables

      The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express

      The Pumpkin Glory

      Butterflyfutterby and Flutterbybutterfly

      Christmas Every Day

      (William Dean Howells)

      Table of Contents

      The little girl came into her papa's study, as she always did Saturday morning before breakfast, and asked for a story. He tried to beg off that morning, for he was very busy, but she would not let him. So he began:

      Well, once there was a little pig--

      She stopped him at the word. She said she had heard little pig-stories till she was perfectly sick of them.

      Well, what kind of story shall I tell, then?

      About Christmas. It's getting to be the season.

      Well! Her papa roused himself. Then I'll tell you about the little girl that wanted it Christmas every day in the year. How would you like that?

      First-rate! said the little girl; and she nestled into comfortable shape in his lap, ready for listening.

      Very well, then, this little pig--Oh, what are you pounding me for?

      Because you said little pig instead of little girl.

      I should like to know what's the difference between a little pig and a little girl that wanted it Christmas every day!

      Papa! said the little girl warningly. At this her papa began to tell the story.

      Once there was a little girl who liked Christmas so much that she wanted it to be Christmas every day in the year, and as soon as Thanksgiving was over she began to send postcards to the old Christmas Fairy to ask if she mightn't have it. But the old Fairy never answered, and after a while the little girl found out that the Fairy wouldn't notice anything but real letters sealed outside with a monogram--or your initial, anyway. So, then, she began to send letters, and just the day before Christmas, she got a letter from the Fairy, saying she might have it Christmas every day for a year, and then they would see about having it longer.

      The little girl was excited already, preparing for the old-fashioned, once-a-year Christmas that was coming the next day. So she resolved to keep the Fairy's promise to herself and surprise everybody with it as it kept coming true, but then it slipped out of her mind altogether.

      She had a splendid Christmas. She went to bed early, so as to let Santa Claus fill the stockings, and in the morning she was up the first of anybody and found hers all lumpy with packages of candy, and oranges and grapes, and rubber balls, and all kinds of small presents. Then she waited until the rest of the family was up, and she burst into the library to look at the large presents laid out on the library table--books, and boxes of stationery, and dolls, and little stoves, and dozens of handkerchiefs, and inkstands, and skates, and photograph frames, and boxes of watercolors, and dolls' houses--and the big Christmas tree, lighted and standing in the middle.

      She had a splendid Christmas all day. She ate so much candy that she did not want any breakfast, and the whole forenoon the presents kept pouring in that had not been delivered the night before, and she went round giving the presents she had got for other people, and came home and ate turkey and cranberry for dinner, and plum pudding and nuts and raisins and oranges, and then went out and coasted, and came in with a stomachache crying, and her papa said he would see if his house was turned into that sort of fool's paradise another year, and they had a light supper, and pretty early everybody went to bed cross.

      The little girl slept very heavily and very late, but she was wakened at last by the other children dancing around her bed with their stockings full of presents in their hands. Christmas! Christmas! Christmas! they all shouted.

      Nonsense! It was Christmas yesterday, said the little girl, rubbing her eyes sleepily.

      Her brothers and sisters just laughed. We don't know about that. It's Christmas today, anyway. You come into the library and see.

      Then all at once it flashed on the little girl that the Fairy was keeping her promise, and her year of Christmases was beginning. She was dreadfully sleepy, but she sprang up and darted into the library. There it was again! Books, and boxes of stationery, and dolls, and so on.

      There was the Christmas tree blazing away, and the family picking out their presents, and her father looking perfectly puzzled, and her mother ready to cry. I'm sure I don't see how I'm to dispose of all these things, said her mother, and her father said it seemed to him they had had something just like it the day before, but he supposed he must have dreamed it. This struck the little girl as the best kind of a joke, and so she ate so much candy she didn't want any breakfast, and went round carrying presents,

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