Acknowledgments

In collecting material used in this anthology, every effort has been made to locate the copyright owners. If anyone has been overlooked, please notify the editor and proper acknowledgment will be made.

The help of Dennison is appreciated, especially with the section on gift wrappings. This material is copyright © by Dennison.

Dick Ashbaugh for "A Merry, Scary Christmas" by Dick Ashbaugh. Copyright ©, 1950, by the Curtis Publishing Company.

Eleanor Alletta Chaffee for "Week Before Christmas" by Eleanor Alletta Chaffee. Copyright ©, 1951, by the Curtis Publishing Company.

The Estate of Robert P. Tristram Coffin for "Christmas in Maine" by Robert P. Tristram Coffin. Copyright ©, 1945, by the author.

Curtis Publishing Company for "Christmas Feast on Fewest Calories." Copyright ©, 1956, by the Curtis Publishing Company.

Coningsby Dawson for "When Father Christmas Was Young" by Coningsby Dawson. Copyright © by the author.

Stephen Daye Press for "How I Spent My Million" by Edgar J. Park. Reprinted from Christmas Tales for Reading Aloud compiled by Robert Lohan. Copyright ©, 1946, by the Stephen Daye Press.

Doubleday & Company, Inc. for "The Gift of the Magi" from The Four Million by O. Henry. Copyright ©, 1906, by Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Doubleday & Company, Inc. for "Gates and Doors" from Poems, Essays and Letters by Joyce Kilmer. Copyright ©, 1914, 1917, 1918, by Double-day & Company, Inc.

E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. for "Christmas Everywhere" from Christmas Songs and Easter Ballads by Phillips Brooks. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Copyright ©, 1903, by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.

E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. and the Trustees of the G. K. Chesterton Estate for "A Christmas Carol" from The Wild Knight and Other Poems by G. K. Chesterton. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.

Eldridge Publishing Company for "A Card for Christmas" by Agnes Curtis from My Good Christmas Book.

Esquire, Inc. for "When Christmas Went Outdoors" by Grady Johnson. Reprinted from Coronet, December 1953. Copyright ©, 1953, by Esquire, Inc.

The Estate of Hamlin Garland for "My First Christmas Tree" by Hamlin Garland. Copyright ©, 1911, by the Curtis Publishing Company.

Good Housekeeping Magazine for "The Year There Was No Christmas" by Samuel Grafton. Copyright ©, 1952, by the Hearst Corporation.

Good Housekeeping Magazine for "Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh" by Donald Culross Peattie. Copyright ©, 1955, by the Hearst Corporation.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. for "Inasmuch" from Collected Edition of Heywood Broun by Heywood Hale Broun. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. Copyright ©, 1941, by the author.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. for "As Ye Sow" from A Harvest of Stories by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. Copyright ©, 1947, by the author.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. for "A Miserable Merry Christmas" from The Autobiography of Lincoln Stef}ens. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. Copyright ©, 1931, by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc.

Ruth Harnden for "Let Nothing You Dismay" by Ruth Harnden. Copyright © by the author.

Harper & Brothers for "Why Santa Claus Chose the Reindeer" from The Giant Who Liked Chocolate Cake by Estella Hitchcock Lane. Copyright ©, 1939, by Harper & Brothers.

Little, Brown & Co. for "Christmas at Orchard House" from Little Women by Louisa May Al- cott.

McCall's for "Perfume is a Man's Best Friend" by Harrison Kinney. Copyright ©, 1954, by McCall Corporation.

Harold Matson Company for "Where Does Christmas Happen?" by Margaret Lee Runbeck. First published in Good Housekeeping, December 1952. Reprinted by permission of Harold Mat-son Company. Copyright ©, 1952, by the Hearst Corporation.

New Yoi World-Telegram & Sun for "Is There A Santa Claus?" First published in The Sun, September 21, 1897.

Harold Ober Associates Incorporated for "Three Young Kings" by George Sumner Albee. First published in McCall's Magazine, December 1955. Copyright ©, 1955, 1956, by the author.

Oxford University Press, Inc. for "Once on Christmas" by Dorothy Thompson. Copyright © by Oxford University Press, Inc.

Rinehart & Company, Inc. for "The Christmas Tree Ship" from Chicago by Harry Hansen. Reprinted by permission of Rinehart & Company, Inc. Copyright ©, 1942, by the author.

G. Schirmer, Inc. for the abridged version of "Amahl and The Night Visitors" by Gian-Carlo Menotti. Copyright © by the author.

Charles Scribner's for "The Mouse That Didn't Believe in Santa Claus" adapted from "The Mouse and the Moonbeam" from A Little Book of Profitable Tales by Eugene Field.

Constance Smith Agency for "Do You Believe in Miracles" by Lois T. Henderson. First published in Everywoman's, December 1956. Copyright ©, 1956, by Everywoman's Magazine, Inc.

Robert A. Stringer for "The State Versus Santa Claus" by Arthur Stringer. Copyright ©, 1948, by the author.

Frank Sullivan for "The Christmas of the Future" from A Pearl in Every Oyster by Frank Sullivan. Copyright ©, 1938, by the author.

The Viking Press, Inc. for "Hoofbeats on a Bridge" from Long, Long Ago. Reprinted by permission of The Viking Press, Inc.

Vogue for "Christmas Without Price" by Victoria Lincoln. Reprinted from Vogue, December 1956. Copyright ©, 1956, by the Conde Nast Publications Inc.

A. Watkins, Inc. for "The Night We Talked to Santa Claus" by Lynne Lofting. Copyright ©, 1956, by the author.

Yale University Press for "Prayer" from Songs for Parents by John Farrar. Copyright ©, 1921, by Yale University Press.

Robert M. Yoder for "A Merry Christmas in Ten Pieces" by Robert M. Yoder. Copyright ©, 1947, by the Curtis Publishing Company.

Christian Herald Magazine for "This Would I Keep" by Grace Noll Crowell. Copyright ©, 1951, by the Christian Herald Association.

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