Most of the scenes are laid in central New York, where the author, Edward Noyes Westcott, was born, September 24, 1847, and where he died of consumption, March 31, 1898. Nearly all his life was passed in his native city of Syracuse, and although bank...
" ...]be a deakin an' all that, an' he lied to me so splendid that I was took in, clean over my head, he done me so brown I was burnt in places, an' you c'd smell smoke 'round me fer some time." "Was it a horse?" asked Mrs. Bixbee gratuitously. "Wa'a...
Excerpt from The Christmas Story From David Harum Dave done the thing his own way," said Aunt Polly to the Widow Cullom. "Kind o'fetched it round fer a merry Chris'mus, didn't he? This is the story which is reprinted here from Mr. Westcott's famous b...