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Jimsy
The Christmas Kid

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


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

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