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    When the Yule Log Burns A Christmas Story
    When the Yule Log Burns A Christmas Story
    When the Yule Log Burns A Christmas Story
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    When the Yule Log Burns A Christmas Story

    By Leona Dalrymple

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      When the Yule Log Burns A Christmas Story - Leona Dalrymple

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      Title: When the Yule Log Burns

      A Christmas Story

      Author: Leona Dalrymple

      Release Date: January 13, 2006 [EBook #17510]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHEN THE YULE LOG BURNS ***

      Produced by David Edwards, Suzanne Shell and the Online

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

      When the Yule Log Burns

      A Christmas Story

      By Leona Dalrymple

      Author of Uncle Noah's Christmas Party, etc.

      New York

      Robert M. McBride & Company

      1916

      Copyright, 1916, by Robert M. McBride & Co.

      Published November, 1916

      CONTENTS

      PART I

      IN WHICH WE LIGHT A YULE-LOG

      I Kindlings

      II Wishing Sparks

      III By the Fire

      IV Embers

      PART II

      IN WHICH WE LIGHT THE NEW LOG WITH THE EMBERS OF THE OLD

      I The Fire Again

      II It Blazes Higher

      III The Log at Dawn

      IV The Log at Twilight

      Part One

      In Which We Light a Yule Log

      When the Yule Log Burns

      I

      Kindlings

      Polly, the Doctor's old white mare, plodded slowly along the snowy country road by the picket fence, and turned in at the snow-capped posts. Ahead, roofed with the ragged ermine of a newly-fallen snow, the Doctor's old-fashioned house loomed gray-white through the snow-fringed branches of the trees, a quaint iron lantern, which was picturesque by day and luminous and cheerful by night, hanging within the square, white-pillared portico at the side. That the many-paned, old-fashioned window on the right framed the snow-white head of Aunt Ellen Leslie, the Doctor's wife, the old Doctor himself was comfortably aware—for his kindly eyes missed nothing.

      He could have told you with a reflective stroke of his grizzled beard that the snow had stopped but an hour since, and that now through the white and heavy lacery of branches to the west glowed the flame-gold of a winter sunset, glinting ruddily over the box-bordered brick walk, the orchard and the comfortable barn which snugly housed his huddled cattle; that the grasslands to the south were thickly blanketed in white; that beyond in the evergreen forest the stately pines and cedars were marvelously draped and coiffed in snow. For the old Doctor loved these things of Nature as he loved the peace and quiet of his home.

      So, as he turned in at the driveway and briskly resigned the care of Polly to old Asher, his seamed and wrinkled helper, the Doctor's eyes were roving now to a corner, snug beneath a tattered rug of snow, where by summer Aunt Ellen's petunias and phlox and larkspur grew—and now to the rose-bushes ridged in down, and at last to his favorite winter nook, a thicket of black alders freighted with a wealth of berries. How crimson they were amid the white quiet of the garden! And the brightly colored fruit of the barberry flamed forth from a snowy bush like the cheerful elf-lamps of a wood-gnome.

      There was equal cheer and color in the old-fashioned sitting-room to which the Doctor presently made his way, for a wood fire roared with a winter gleam and crackle in the fireplace and Aunt Ellen Leslie rocked slowly back and forth by the window with a letter in her hand.

      Another letter! exclaimed the Doctor, warming his hands before the blazing log. God bless my soul, Ellen, we're becoming a nuisance to Uncle Sam! But for all the brisk cheeriness of his voice he was furtively aware that Aunt Ellen's brown eyes were a little tearful, and presently crossing the room to her side, he gently drew the crumpled letter from her hand and read it.

      "So John's not coming home for Christmas either,

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