Humor

Charles Dickens

The Holly-Tree

Edward Everett Hale

The Survivor’s Story

W. Carleton

Black-and-All-Black: A Legend of the Padereen Mare

Randolph Banlett

Debussy Variations on a Mendelssohn Theme

Washington Irving

The Christmas Dinner

Unknown writer

Seasonable Festivities

Alphonse Daudet

A Christmas Supper in the Marais

Alphonse Daudet

The Three Low Masses

Sydney Dayre

A Child’s Thoughts About Santa Claus

Robert Herrick

The Christmas Pie

Geoffrey Smith

At the Sign of the Jolly Jack

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Kriss Kringle

Robert L. Munger

Saint Nicholas — His Roundelay

Unknown writer

The Christmas Box

Barry Cornwall

Christmas Evergreens

Edmund Vance Cooke

Going to Meet Christmas

Albert Bigelow Paine

Christmas at the Hollow Tree Inn

Frederick Arthur Neale

Christmas Day in Siam

Unknown writer

The Only Man Left in College on Christmas-Day

William Makepeace Thackeray

Tom Smithers’s Christmas-Day

Unknown writer

The Christmas Pie

Unknown writer

Cold Out of Doors, and Cold In-Doors

Eugene Field

Jest ‘fore Christmas

Unknown writer

A Dear Little Schemer

Unknown writer

Snap-shots by Santa Claus

Unknown writer

Benevolent Boy!

Julie M. Lippmann

A New-Fashioned Christmas

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The Tardy Santa Claus

Florence E. Pratt

Misplaced Confidence

Susan Hartley Swett

A Christmas Goblin

Stephen Leacock

A Christmas Letter

José María de Pereda

A Christmas Eve in Spain

Ernest Vincent Wright

Santa Claus’ Assistants

James Whitcomb Riley

A Defective Santa Claus

Heluiz Washburne

Little Elephant’s Christmas

Alice W. Rollins

A Gentle Reminder

S.C. Peabody

My Christmas Secrets

Wolstan Dixey

Christmas Questions

Mabel L. Pray

A Christmas Gift

Unknown writer

Make Me Merry Both More and Less

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

King Witlaf’s Drinking-Horn

J.H. Ewing

Christmas Crackers: A Fantasia

Unknown writer

My Christmas Dinner

Anne P. L. Field

The Night After Christmas

Harrison S. Morris

Christmas with the Baron

Francis J. Finn

The Wager of Gerald O’Rourke

Rupert Hughes

Colonel Crockett’s Co-operative Christmas

Annie Eliot Trumbull

A Christmas Accident

J.H. Ewing

The Peace Egg

Unknown writer

A Matter of System

Unknown writer

Getting Up a Pantomime

Unknown writer

The Arraignment of Christmas

Unknown writer

Mr. Grapewine’s Christmas Dinner

M. A. Haley

Santa Claus Does Not Forget

Sidney Lanier

The Hard Times in Elfland

W. H. Corning

A Western Christmas in the Old Days

Cornelia Redmond

Billy’s Santa Claus Experience

C. S. Stone

Sly Santa Claus

Larry Chittenden

The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball

Unknown writer

The Knighting of the Sirloin

Unknown writer

Mark Well My Heavy Doleful Tale

Helen Hunt Jackson

A Simple Bill of Fare for a Christmas Dinner

Unknown writer

The Newest Thing in Christmas Carols

Unknown writer

A Christmas Barring Out

Monte Sohn

Lines to Christmas

Unknown writer

The Seven Sets of Presents

Unknown writer

Christmas Inconsistency

Margaret Winship Eytinge

Recipe for a Christmas Poem

Unknown writer

A Pathetic Christmas Poem

George Webbe Dasent

The Cat on the Dovrefell

E. Nesbit

A Conscience Pudding

John Challing

A Rhyme For Christmas

Sir Owen Seaman

To An Old Fogey

Arnold Bennett

Vera’s First Christmas Adventure

Arnold Bennett

Vera’s Second Christmas Adventure

Unknown writer

The Mouse and the Christmas Cake

Alphonse Daudet

The Three Christmas Masses

Lucy Maud Montgomery

A Christmas Mistake

Gerald Prime

Looking Out for Santy

Willis Hawkins

Bobby’s Christmas Plaint

Goodloe Thomas

A Botanical Error

Will M. Maupin

He’s Coming Soon

Peter McArthur

The Gift I Didn’t Get

Minna Irving

A Peripatetic Christmas Gift

Eugenia Rabbas

Billy’s Christmas Greeting

Arthur Chapman

Christmas in Cactus Center

Unknown writer

The Seven Ages of the Christmas Turkey

Anthony Trollope

Christmas at Thompson Hall

Robert Graves

The Shivering Beggar

Unknown writer

The Night After Christmas

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

The Gospel According To Joan

Frank Stockton

Captain Eli’s Best Ear

Frank Stockton

The Christmas Wreck

William Dean Howells

The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express

Katharine Lee Bates

Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride

Unknown writer

A Christmas Hamper

O. Henry

An Unfinished Christmas Story

A.A. Milne

A Hint for Next Christmas

H. H. Munro (Saki)

Reginald on Christmas Presents

H. H. Munro (Saki)

Bertie’s Christmas Eve