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    Jimsy The Christmas Kid
    Jimsy The Christmas Kid
    Jimsy The Christmas Kid
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    Jimsy The Christmas Kid

    By Leona Dalrymple and Charles Guischard

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 1, 2009
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      Jimsy The Christmas Kid - Leona Dalrymple

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Jimsy, by Leona Dalrymple

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      Title: Jimsy

      The Christmas Kid

      Author: Leona Dalrymple

      Illustrator: Charles Guischard

      Release Date: February 18, 2009 [EBook #28110]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JIMSY ***

      Produced by Annie McGuire

      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 paper, and he had made a great deal of noise, yelling back at old Austin White, whose sleigh had conveyed him from the station to the house, a S'long, Uncle! pregnant with the friendliness of a conversational ride. He had scraped away his snow-heels with a somewhat sustained noise, born perhaps of shyness, and now, as he stood in the center of the prim, old-fashioned room, a thin, eager youngster not too warmly clad for the bite of the New England wind, Abner Sawyer felt with a sense of shock that this city urchin whom Judith had promised to Christmas, detracted, in some ridiculous manner, from the respectability of the room. He was an inharmonious note in its staid preciseness. Moreover, it was evident from the frank friendliness of his dark, gray eyes that he was perniciously of that type who frolic through a frosty, first-citizen aura of informality and give and accept friendship as a matter of course.

      What—what is your name? asked the first citizen, peering over his spectacles. He wished that Judith's Christmas protégé was not so thin and a trifle larger.

      Jimsy, answered the boy. An' Specks, he's me chum; he goes to Mister Middleton's, next door.

      Specks and Jimsy! The first citizen helplessly cleared his throat and summoned Judith.

      She came in a spotless apron no whiter than her hair. She was spare—Aunt Judith Sawyer—spare and patient as the wife of a provident man may well be who sees no need for servants, and her primness was of a gentler, vaguer sort than that of Abner Sawyer. Jimsy glanced up into her sweet, tired face and his eager eyes claimed her with a bewildering smile of

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