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    Mr. Kris Kringle: A Christmas Tale
    Mr. Kris Kringle: A Christmas Tale
    Mr. Kris Kringle: A Christmas Tale
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    Mr. Kris Kringle: A Christmas Tale

    By S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Mr. Kris Kringle - S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mr. Kris Kringle, by S. Weir Mitchell

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      Title: Mr. Kris Kringle

             A Christmas Tale

      Author: S. Weir Mitchell

      Release Date: December 25, 2006 [EBook #20180]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MR. KRIS KRINGLE ***

      Produced by David Edwards, Sankar Viswanathan, and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      (This file was produced from images generously made

      available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      A Silent Group About the Hearth.

      MR. KRIS KRINGLE.

      A

      Christmas Tale.

      By

      S. WEIR MITCHELL, M. D., LL. D., Harvard.

      SEVENTH THOUSAND.

      PHILADELPHIA:

      George W. Jacobs & Co.,

      103 South 15th Street,

      1898.

      Copyright, 1893,

      BY S. WEIR MITCHELL.

      The following little Christmas story was written, and is published for the benefit of the Home of the Merciful Saviour for Crippled Children, Philadelphia.

      S. Weir Mitchell.

      MR. KRIS KRINGLE.

      It was Christmas Eve. The snow had clad the rolling hills in white, as if in preparation for the sacred morrow. The winds, boisterous all day long, at fall of night ceased to roar amidst the naked forest, and now, the silent industry of the falling flakes made of pine and spruce tall white tents. At last, as the darkness grew, a deepening stillness came on hill and valley, and all nature seemed to wait expectant of the coming of the Christmas time.

      Above the broad river a long, gray stone house lay quiet; its vine and roof heavy with the softly-falling snow, and showing no sign of light or life except in a feeble, red glow through the Venetian blinds of the many windows of one large room. Within, a huge fire of mighty logs lit up with distinctness only the middle space, and fell with variable illumination on a silent group about the hearth.

      On one side a mother sat with her cheek upon her hand, her elbow on the table, gazing steadily into the fire; on the other side were two children, a girl and a boy; he on a cushion, she in a low chair. Some half-felt sadness repressed for these little ones the usual gay Christmas humor of the hopeful hour, commonly so full for them of that anticipative joy to which

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