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Title: The Christmas Angel

Author: Abbie Farwell Brown

Release Date: April 25, 2005 [EBook #15709]

Language: English

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HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK

THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL

[Illustration: YOU HANG IT ON THE TREE, ANGELINA (page 26)]

THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL

BY

ABBIE FARWELL BROWN

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
REGINALD BIRCH

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

_Published October 1910_

SECOND IMPRESSION

CONTENTS

I. THE PLAY BOX 1

II. JACK-IN-THE-BOX 8

III. THE FLANTON DOG 12

IV. NOAH'S ARK 15

V. MIRANDA 20

VI. THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL 25

VII. BEFORE THE FIRE