The Romance of a Christmas Card by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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giving you the chance because you live in Beulah, New
Hampshire, and because you make beautiful pictures. Sincerely yours, REUBEN SMALL. DEAR MR. SMALL:-- I enclose a colored sketch of the outside of the cottage whose living-room I used in my first card. I chose it because I love the person who lives in it; because it always looks beautiful in the snow, and because the tree is so picturesque. The fact that it is gray for lack of paint may remind a casual wanderer that there is something to do, now and then, for the "folks back home." The verse is just as bad as I thought it would be. It seems incredible that any one should buy it, but ours is a big country and there are many kinds of people living in it, so who knows? Why don't you accept my picture and then you write the card? I could not put my initials on this! They are unknown, to be sure, and I should want them to be, if you use it! Sincerely yours, REBA LARRABEE. Now here's a Christmas greeting To the "folks back home." It comes to you across the space, Dear folks back home! I've searched the wide world over, |
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