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Title: The Goblins' Christmas

Author: Elizabeth Anderson

Illustrator: Alexander Sharp

Release Date: June 9, 2007 [EBook #21784]

Language: English

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THE GOBLINS' CHRISTMAS

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Copyright, 1908, by M. E. Anderson

The Goblins' Christmas

By

Elizabeth Anderson

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Illustrated by Alexander Sharp

Los Angeles
Segnogram Publishing Co.
1908

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Preface

Once upon a time I visited Fairy-land and spent a day in Goblin-town.
The people there are much like ourselves, only they are very, very small
and roguish. They play pranks on one another and have great fun. They
are good natured and jolly, and rarely get angry. But if one does get
angry, he quickly recovers his good nature and joins again in the sport.

If a Goblin should continue angry he would take on some visible form.
Perhaps he would become a toad or a squirrel, or some other little
animal, and would have to live here on the Earth-plane forevermore. But,
if he keeps good natured, he can come here and have his fun, and not be
seen by any one except a Seer, or very wise person.

The Goblins are gracious to the wise people now, but they were not
always so. A long, long time ago, on a Christmas-eve, the Fairy-folk
were having great sport. All the little people of the Unseen-world had
gathered together in the Earth-realm. There were Brownies, and Gnomes,
and Elves; even some little Cherubs had joined them. They were having a
wild dance and a gay time when who should appear but Kris Kringle! Now
the Fairies did not know that he was a Magician, or Seer, and so they
tried to make sport of him. But Kris