قراءة كتاب Jimsy The Christmas Kid
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Jimsy
The Christmas Kid
By
Leona Dalrymple
Author of "The Lovable Meddler," "Diane
of the Green Van," "Uncle Noah's
Christmas Party," etc.
Decorations by
Charles Guischard
New York
Robert M. McBride & Company
1915
Copyright, 1915, by
Robert M. McBride & Co.
Published October, 1915
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | The Invasion | 9 |
| II | The Biscuit Link | 19 |
| III | The Chain Grows | 27 |
| IV | The Chain Clanks | 38 |
| V | The Proving | 46 |
| VI | The Triumph | 51 |
| VII | The Downfall | 55 |
| VIII | The Chain is Locked | 61 |
Jimsy
The Christmas Kid
I
THE INVASION
His name was Jimsy and he took it for granted that you liked him. That made things difficult from the very start—that and the fact that he arrived in the village two days before Christmas strung to such a holiday pitch of expectation that, if you were a respectable, bewhiskered first citizen like Jimsy's host, you felt the cut-and-dried dignity of a season which unflinching thrift had taught you to pare of all its glittering non-essentials, threatened by his bubbling air of faith in something wonderful to happen.
He had arrived at twilight, just as the first citizen was about to read his evening
