Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories some of which have been published before. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The first story has never before been published. It is but fair to say that I have not drawn on imagination for Laura's night duty alone upon her island. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is simply the account of what a brave New-England woman did under like circumstances because it was the duty next her hand.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>If any reader observes a resemblance between her position and that of a boy in another story in this volume I must disarm censure by saying that she had never heard of him when she was called to this duty and that I had never heard of her when I wrote his story/</span></p>