This illustrated children's Christmas volume was published in 1884 and contains six short stories.

Stories:

-- Who Ate the Pink Sweetmeat? by Susan Coolidge
-- The Whizzer by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
-- The Patroncito's Christmas by F.L. Stealey
-- Cherry Pie by Kate Upson Clark
-- Bertie's Ride by Lady Dunboyne
-- Asaph Sheafe's Christmas by E.E. Hale

Book excerpts:
But it was not quite all, for after her husband
had gone to bed, Mrs. Wendte, a tender look on
her motherly face, sought out a small, screwed-up
paper, and with the air of one who is a little
ashamed of what she is doing, dropped into each
stocking a something made of sugar. They were
not sugar almonds, they were not Salem Gibraltars
-- which delightful confections are unfamiliar to
London shops -- but irregular lumps of a nonde-
script character, which were crumbly and sweet,
and would be sure to please those who did not often
get a taste of candy. It was of little Jan that his
mother had thought when she bought the sweet-
meats, and for his sake she had yielded to the
temptation, though she looked upon it as an
extravagance. There were three of the sweet-
meats -- two white, one pink -- and the pink one
went into Jan's stockings. Mrs. Wendte had not
said anything about them to her husband. ... The Whizzer:.
That was a cold evening. The snow was
just as dry as flour, and had been beat
down till the road looked slick as a ribbon far
up and far down, and squeaked every step. I
pulled Mrar on our sled. All the boys went home
by the crick to skate, but I was 'fraid Mrar would
get cold, she's such a little thing. I like to play
with the girls if the boys do laugh, for some of the
big ones might push Mrar down and hurt her. She
misses her mother so I babies her more than I
used to. ... Bertie's Ride.
"A real old-fashioned Christmas, Father calls
it ! " thinks Alice as she goes to the window and
looks out at the whitened landscape, amongst which
the leafless branches of the trees stand out like the
limbs of blackened giants. The snow which has
been falling at intervals for some days is not deep,
but there is a heavy lowering appearance about the
sky betokening that the worst is yet to come. The
little birds, which Alice has been befriending ever
since the winter set in.

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