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Title: Christmas, A Happy Time
A Tale, Calculated for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Persons

Author: Miss Mant

Release Date: December 27, 2006 [EBook #20200]

Language: English

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CHRISTMAS,

A HAPPY TIME:

A Tale,

CALCULATED FOR

THE AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION

OF

YOUNG PERSONS.

BY MISS MANT.

LONDON:

T. ALLMAN, 42, HOLBORN HILL,

1832.

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CHRISTMAS,

A HAPPY TIME.

Harriet and Elizabeth Mortimer were two very pretty, and generally
speaking, very good little girls. Their kind papa and mamma had taken
a great deal of pains that they should be good, and it was very seldom
that they vexed them by being otherwise. A very happy time was now
expected in the family at Beech Grove, by the arrival of John and
Frederick Mortimer from school: it was within a few days of Christmas;
and as the sisters and brothers had never, till the last few months,
been separated, their meeting together again was looked forward to
with general and lively pleasure.

'Do you see anything of the stage, Elizabeth?' said Harriet to her
sister, who had been running down to the end of the plantation to peep
over the gate, and listen if she could hear the approach of wheels.

'No: there is nothing in sight,' replied Elizabeth, whose teeth
chattered from the cold, while her han