A STOLEN CHRISTMAS by MARY E, WILKINS FREEMAN
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 25 December 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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A New England story about an old woman with no money and no support who steals a parcel of toys from the town store to make sure the little ones now in her care have presents. Her neighbor across the street has everything she doesn't- a living daughter, a means of support, a nice house with furnishings- and seems to enjoy flaunting it in this lady's face. All these things her neighbor has- until her house burns down.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 100 one classic short stories and tales. |
| 0:33.5 | This is your host, John Hagenorn. |
| 0:35.6 | Today, A Stolen Christmas by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. |
| 0:41.6 | A Stolen Christmas was published in Harper's Bazaar on December 24th, 1887. |
| 0:47.0 | I don't suppose you are going to do much Christmas over to your house. |
| 0:52.0 | Mrs. Luther Ely stood looking over her gate. |
| 0:54.9 | There was a sweet hypocritical smile on her little thin red mouth. Her old China blue eyes |
| 1:01.3 | stared as innocently as a baby's although there was a certain hardness in them. |
| 1:06.1 | Her soft wrinkled cheeks were pink and white with the true blonde tints of her youth, which she had |
| 1:10.4 | never lost. |
| 1:11.8 | She was now an old woman, but people still looked at her with admiring eyes, |
| 1:15.6 | and probably would till she died. All life long, her morsel of the world had had it in a sweet savor of admiration and she had smacked her little |
| 1:24.6 | feminine lips over it greedily. She expected everyone to contribute toward it, even |
| 1:29.5 | this squat shabby defiant old body standing squarely out in the middle of the road. |
| 1:35.0 | Margaret Poole had stopped unwillingly to exchange courtesies with Mrs. Luther Eli. |
| 1:40.0 | She looked aggressive. |
| 1:42.0 | She eyed with a sidewise glance the other woman's pink smirking face. |
| 1:46.0 | Tain't likely we be, she said, and a voice which age had made gruff instead of piping. |
| 1:52.0 | Then she took a step forward. |
| 1:54.8 | Well, we ain't going to do much, continued Mrs. Eli with an air of subdued loftiness. |
| 2:00.3 | We are just gonna have a little Christmas tree for the children. |
| 2:03.7 | Flora is going to get a few things. She says there's a very nice sortman up to whites. |
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