Tony Summerfield wrote:I have now got the correct contents for
Christmas Tales and if anyone is able to tell me where 'A Christmas Legend' is taken from I would love to know the answer!
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'Christmas Tales' arrived today - and I like the look of it a lot - nice and chunky. My idea is to read one story each day throughout December. There are 25 stories, so that will take me to Christmas Day.
Having just read 'A Christmas Legend' just to see if I knew it, I can't say I recognise it from any EB books I own. Maybe it was only in a magazine, or perhaps in one of the short story collections I don't have. However, as I have very many of them, its a bit surprising I haven't read it before.
Its a quite short story - the type of thing that is in the early volumes, like 'Teacher's Treasury' or 'Happy Stories' or 'In Storyland'.
It's a religious tale about bells in a church that only rang on Christmas Eve, then stopped ringing until the people of the village brought gifts for The Christ Child. Two ragged boys propose to take their hard-earned money but on the way they give it to a man who looks poorer than themselves - and this kindness is what makes the bells ring again.
Does this story 'ring any bells' with anyone?
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