As you slip the latch and take your seat, some traveller calls out: A
Merry Christmas! Another cries: A story, a story! and so they fall to,
each from his own scrip taking forth a native tale,--and so they sit the
midnight out listening and talking in turn; while the good cheer goes
round in endless abundance and laughter and song make interludes for the
varied narratives.




CONTENTS OF BOOK I.




The Three Kings of Cologne

_A modern version of an old English Chronicle._

_By Harrison S. Morris._


The Three Christmas Masses

_From the French of Alphonse Daudet._

_By Harrison S. Morris._