Trifles for the Christmas Holidays

CONTENTS. THE OVERTURE A CHRISTMAS MELODY STORY OF A BEAST LEAVES IN THE LIFE OF AN IDLER MR. BUTTERBY RECORDS HIS CASE DIAMONDS AND HEARTS Christmas! What worldly care could ever lessen the joy of that eventful day? 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.