1 We decided to have a country Christmas, without any help from town.
2 I remembered his contented face when he was with us on Christmas Day.
3 The white Christmas melons we did not touch, but we watched them with curiosity.
4 As it grew dark, I asked whether I might light the Christmas tree before the lamp was brought.
5 The boy had come to town with a neighbour to do his Christmas shopping, for he had money of his own this year.
6 He used to help my father cut Christmas trees for me in Virginia, and he had not forgotten how much I liked them.
7 In his prayer he thanked the Lord for the first Christmas, and for all that it had meant to the world ever since.
8 By the time we had placed the cold, fresh-smelling little tree in a corner of the sitting-room, it was already Christmas Eve.
9 He always wrote to her on Christmas Day, he said, no matter where he was, and no matter how long it had been since his last letter.
10 We were glad to go in and get warm by his kitchen stove and to see his squashes and Christmas melons, heaped in the storeroom for winter.
11 On the morning of the twenty-second, grandfather announced at breakfast that it would be impossible to go to Black Hawk for Christmas purchases.
12 DURING THE WEEK before Christmas, Jake was the most important person of our household, for he was to go to town and do all our Christmas shopping.
13 On the day before Christmas, Jake packed the things we were sending to the Shimerdas in his saddle-bags and set off on grandfather's grey gelding.
14 After we sat down to our waffles and sausage, Jake told us how pleased the Shimerdas had been with their presents; even Ambrosch was friendly and went to the creek with him to cut the Christmas tree.
15 THE WEEK FOLLOWING Christmas brought in a thaw, and by New Year's Day all the world about us was a broth of grey slush, and the guttered slope between the windmill and the barn was running black water.
16 When fall came she was to husk corn for the neighbours until Christmas, as she had done the year before; but grandmother saved her from this by getting her a place to work with our neighbours, the Harlings.
17 One afternoon in the week before Christmas, I came upon Lena and her funny, square-headed little brother Chris, standing before the drugstore, gazing in at the wax dolls and blocks and Noah's Arks arranged in the frosty show window.
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