title: The Christmas Storybook
author: Valerie Hall
description: A Christmas Carol The Twelve Days Of Christmas Wildlife In Winter Jimmy And The New Year Frost Pictures Sam's Special Sandwiches The Night Before Christmas The Little Toy Theatre Santa's Best Coat The King Who Cancelled Christmas North Wind The Nutcracker Santa's Ride The Nativity Play The No-Snowman Simon's Special Snowman The Little Fir Tree The Dog Who Fetched Father ChristmasSnow For Christmas
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  Betty Leicester's Christmas
  
  
    
    
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  # Betty Leicester's Christmas
  
  
  ### Sarah Orne Jewett
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### I
  
  
  There was once a story-book girl named Betty Leicester, who lived in a
  
  
  small square book bound in scarlet and white. I, who know her better
  
  
  than anyone else does, and who know my way about Tideshead, the
  
  
  story-book town, as well as she did, and who have not only made many a
  
  
  visit to her aunt Barbara and aunt Mary in their charming old
  
  
  country-house, but have even seen the house in London where she spent
  
  
  the winter: I, who confess to loving Betty a good deal, wish to write a
  
  
  little more about her in this Chri