CHRISTMAS WITH GRANDMA ELSIE

by

MARTHA FINLEY

Author of _Elsie Dinsmore_, _Elsie at Nantucket_, _Mildred and Elsie_,
_Our Fred_, _Wanted, a Pedigree_, etc.

1888







CHAPTER I.


It was about the middle of November. There had been a long rain storm,
ending in sleet and snow, and now the sun was shining brightly on a
landscape sheeted with ice: walks and roads were slippery with it, every
tree and shrub was encased in it, and glittering and sparkling as if
loaded with diamonds, as its branches swayed and tossed in the wind. At
Ion Mrs. Elsie Travilla stood at the window of her dressing-room gazing
with delighted eyes upon the lovely scene.

"How beautiful!" she said softly to herself; "and my Father made it all.
'He gives snow like wool: he scattereth the hoar frost like ashes. He