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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mr. Kris Kringle, by S. Weir Mitchell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Mr. Kris Kringle A Christmas Tale Author: S. Weir Mitchell Release Date: December 25, 2006 [EBook #20180] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MR. KRIS KRINGLE *** Produced by David Edwards, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: A SILENT GROUP ABOUT THE HEARTH.] MR. KRIS KRINGLE. A Christmas Tale. BY S. WEIR MITCHELL, M. D., LL. D., HARVARD. SEVENTH THOUSAND. PHILADELPHIA: GEORGE W. JACOBS & CO., 103 South 15th Street, 1898. COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY S. WEIR MITCHELL. * * * * * The following little Christmas story was written, and is published for the benefit of the Home of the Merciful Saviour for Crippled Children, Philadelphia. S. WEIR MITCHELL. * * * * * MR. KRIS KRINGLE. It was Christmas Eve. The snow had clad the rolling hills in white, as if in preparation for the sacred morrow. The winds, boisterous all day long, at fall of night ceased to roar amidst the naked forest, and now, the silent industry of the falling flakes made of pine and spruce tall white tents. At last, as the darkness grew, a deepening stillness came on hill and valley, and all nature seemed to wait expectant of the coming of the Christmas time. Above the broad river a long, gray stone house lay quiet; its vine and roof heavy with the softly-falling snow, and showing no sign of light or life except in a feeble, red glow through the Venetian blinds o
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