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Title: The Christmas Story from David Harum

Author: Edward Noyes Westcott

Release Date: June 29, 2008 [EBook #25927]

Language: English

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[Illustration: WM. H. CRANE AS DAVID HARUM]

_WM. H. CRANE EDITION_

THE

CHRISTMAS STORY FROM

DAVID HARUM

By

Edward Noyes Westcott

ILLUSTRATED FROM MR. CHARLES FROHMAN'S
PRODUCTION OF DAVID HARUM.
A COMEDY DRAMATIZED FROM THE NOVEL

NEW YORK

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

1900

Copyright, 1898, 1900,

By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

_All rights reserved._

[Illustration]

PREFACE

"Dave done the thing his own way," said Aunt Polly to the Widow Cullom.
"Kind o' fetched it round fer a merry Chris'mus, didn't he?"

This is the story which is reprinted here from Mr. Westcott's famous
book. It was David Harum's nature to do things in his own way, and the
quaintness of his methods in raising the Widow Cullom from the depths of
despair to the heights of happiness frame a story which is read between
laughter and tears, and always with a quickening of affection for the
great-hearted benefactor. David Harum's absolute originality, his
unexpectedness, the dryness of his humor, the shrewdness of his insight,
and the kindliness and generosity beneath the surface, have made him a
permanent figure in literature. Moreover, the individual quality of
David Harum is so distinctively American that he has been recognized as
the typical American, typical of an old