Excerpt from An Australian Christmas Collection: Stories, Sketches, Essays Christmas being' proverbially and traditionally the time for family (reunions, it is only in accord with the spirit of the season that a writer Should celebrate that great festival by bringing together the scattered productions of his pen, and placing them sociably side by Side between the covers of one book. This volume Is, for the most part, a, selection, from my contributions to Australian periodical and newspaper literature during the past few. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.