Excerpt from The Nursery, 1874, Vol. 15: A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers The sun shone; but it was not warm enough to melt the snow that lay on the ground, and streaked the branches of the leafless trees. It was the day before Christ, mas. The children, that morn ing, had been aroused an hour earlier than usual. Little Emily had been the first one out of bed. Wrapping a shawl about her, she took a big bell, and rang it, so that all the sleepers could hear. That's right, Emily! Cried John, the eldest brother. Ring away, and rouse all the folks. We want breakfast early, so that we can go to the woods and return, before the snow begins to melt. Edward, the next brother, jumped up, and began sing ing, Christmas comes but once a year! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.