Some Christmas Stories Charles Dickens
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I HAVE been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects. There were rosy-cheeked dolls, hiding behind the green leaves; and there were real watches (with movable hands, at least, and an endless capacity of being wound up) dangling from innumerable twigs; there were French-polished tables, chairs, bedsteads, wardrobes, eight-day clocks, and various other articles of domestic furniture (wonderfully made, in tin, at Wolverhampton), perched among the boughs, as if in preparation for some fairy housekeeping; there were jolly, broad-faced little men, much more agreeable in appearance than many real men-and no wonder, for their heads took off, and showed them to be full of sugar-plums; there were fiddles and drums; there were tambourines, books, work-boxes, paint-boxes, sweetmeat-boxes, peep-show boxes, and all kinds of boxes; there were trinkets for the elder girls, far brighter than any grown-up gold and jewels; there were baskets and pincushions in all devices; there were guns, swords, and banners; there were witches standing in enchanted rings of pasteboard, to tell fortunes; there were teetotums, humming-tops, needle-cases, pen-wipers, smelling-bottles...
- | Author: Charles Dickens, Paula Benitez
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Dec 01, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 54 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1540749894
- | ISBN-13: 9781540749895
- Author:
- Charles Dickens, Paula Benitez
- Publisher:
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date:
- Dec 01, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 54 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1540749894
- ISBN-13:
- 9781540749895