Trifles for the Christmas Holidays

<p>Trifles for the Christmas Holidays is a collection of five original unique short stories that celebrate this joyous season.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Christmas! What worldly care could ever lessen the joy of that eventful day?</p><p> </p><p>At your first waking in the morning when you lie gazing in drowsy listlessness at the brass ornament on your bed-tester when the ring of the milkman is like a dream and the cries of the bread-man and newspaper-boy sound far off in the distance it peals at you in the laughter and gay greetings of the servants in the yard.</p><p> </p><p>Your senses are aroused by a promiscuous discharging of pistols and you are filled with a vague thought that the whole city has been formed into a line of skirmishers.</p><p> </p><p>You are startled by a noise on the front pavement which sounds like an energetic drummer beating the long roll on a barrel-head; and you have an indistinct idea that some improvident urchin (up since the dawn) has just expended his last fire-cracker.</p><p> </p>