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Title: Holiday Tales
Christmas in the Adirondacks

Author: W. H. H. Murray

Release Date: February 16, 2009 [eBook #28098]

Language: English

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HOLIDAY TALES.

Christmas in the Adirondacks.

by

W. H. H. MURRAY.

[Illustration: W. H. H. MURRAY,
THE MURRAY HOMESTEAD GUILFORD, CONN.]

Copyrighted, 1897.
All Rights Reserved.

Press of
Springfield Printing and Binding Company,
Springfield, Mass.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

I.

HOW JOHN NORTON THE TRAPPER KEPT HIS CHRISTMAS, 11

II.

JOHN NORTON'S VAGABOND, 77

[Illustration: THE WILD DEER'S HOME.]

[Illustration: THE OLD TRAPPER'S HOME.]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE WILD DEER'S HOME,
_By J. Gurner Fisher_, _Frontispiece No. 1_

THE OLD TRAPPER'S HOME,
_By W. L. Everett Knowles_, _Frontispiece No. 2_

HOW JOHN NORTON THE TRAPPER KEPT HIS CHRISTMAS, (_Heading_) 11

THE OLD TRAPPER'S FIREPLACE,
_By W. L. Everett Knowles_, between pages 12-13

"ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN STOOD
THE DISMAL HUT,"