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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Goblins' Christmas, by Elizabeth Anderson
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+Title: The Goblins' Christmas
+
+Author: Elizabeth Anderson
+
+Illustrator: Alexander Sharp
+
+Release Date: June 9, 2007 [EBook #21784]
+
+Language: English
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+
+<div class="figcenter figmt" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/img00.jpg" width="600" height="323" alt="Cover: The Goblins&#39; Christmas" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt figmb" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/img01.png" width="200" height="133" alt="Goblin" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>THE GOBLINS' CHRISTMAS</h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/img02.png" width="200" height="147" alt="Toadstool" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="center">Copyright, 1908, by M. E. Anderson</p>
+
+<h1 style="margin-top: 80px;">The Goblins' Christmas</h1>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmb" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/separator01.png" width="400" height="54" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>By</h3>
+
+<h2>Elizabeth Anderson</h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt figmb1" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/separator02.png" width="300" height="179" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="center">Illustrated by Alexander Sharp</p>
+
+<p class="center">Los Angeles<br/>
+Segnogram Publishing Co.<br/>
+1908</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt" style="width: 352px;
+height: 700px;
+background: url(images/border01.png);
+background-repeat: no-repeat;
+padding-top: 140px;
+padding-right: 128px;
+padding-left: 40px;"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span>
+<div style="width: 352px; text-align: justify;">
+<img src="images/once.png" width="100" height="57" alt="Once" title="" />
+upon a time I visited Fairy-land and
+spent a day in Goblin-town. The people
+there are much like ourselves, only they are very,
+very small and roguish. They play pranks on one
+another and have great fun. They are good natured
+and jolly, and rarely get angry. But if one does
+get angry, he quickly recovers his good nature and
+joins again in the sport.<br/><br/>
+
+If a Goblin should continue angry he would take
+on some visible form. Perhaps he would become a
+toad or a squirrel, or some other little animal, and
+would have to live here on the Earth-plane forevermore.
+But, if he keeps good natured, he can come
+here and have his fun, and not be seen by any one
+except a Seer, or very wise person.<br/><br/>
+
+The Goblins are gracious to the wise people
+now, but they were not always so. A long, long
+time ago, on a Christmas-eve, the Fairy-folk were
+having great sport. All the little people of the
+Unseen-world had gathered together in the Earth-realm.
+There were Brownies, and Gnomes, and Elves;
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 366px;
+height: 700px;
+background: url(images/border02.png);
+background-repeat: no-repeat;
+padding-top: 150px;
+padding-right: 40px;
+padding-left: 40px;">
+<div style="width: 366px; text-align: justify;">
+even some little Cherubs had joined them. They
+were having a wild dance and a gay time when who
+should appear but Kris Kringle! Now the Fairies
+did not know that he was a Magician, or Seer,
+and so they tried to make sport of him. But Kris
+by his wonderful magic, changed them into the most
+beautiful toys. They became straight little jumping-jacks,
+and dolls in bright dresses, and the dearest
+little rabbit with white, soft fur. And somewhere in
+the bottom of the sleigh one was turned into a cute
+little Teddy-bear. Then old Kris tucked all these
+toys into his roomy sleigh, and shook the reins of
+his waiting steed. "Go on!" he said, "For I've
+many, many a chimney to reach tonight."<br/><br/>
+
+Now this is the tale of "The Goblins' Christmas"
+that the moonbeams told, as they heard it
+from the Fairy-Queen, who declares that every
+word of it is perfectly true.
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span>
+<img src="images/presented_to.png" width="400" height="347" alt="Presented to" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt figmb" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/separator03.png" width="400" height="171" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h2>Illustrations.</h2>
+
+
+<table summary="Illustrations">
+<tr>
+<td>"Down the Milky way"</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>"The big black caldron"</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td style="padding-right: 20px;">"As through the air they flew"</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_25">25</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>"They climbed the sleigh"</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>"'Playthings rare,' he said"</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>"For his Christmas treat"</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td style="padding-top: 20px;">Preface</td>
+<td class="right" style="padding-top: 20px;"><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>Presentation</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>Fairy Queen</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>Sprite and Toadstool</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>Boy and Rabbit</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>Witch with Broom</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>Elf and Spider</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter figmt figmb" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/img03.png" width="300" height="511" alt="Fairy Queen" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h3>To EARL and GEORGIA:</h3>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">
+<img src="images/the.png" width="86" height="57" alt="The" title="" />
+little Man, and tiny Maid,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who love the Fairies in the glade,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who see them in the tangled grass<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The Gnomes and Brownies, as they pass,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who hear the Sprites from Elf-land call<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Go, frolic with these Brownies small,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And join these merry sporting Elves,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But ever be your own sweet selves.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/separator02.png" width="300" height="179" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt figmb" style="width: 167px;">
+<img src="images/img04.png" width="167" height="300" alt="Owl" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/separator04.png" width="600" height="166" alt="The Goblins&#39; Christmas" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The big bright Moon hung high and round,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">In a densely darkened sky;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The tall pines swayed, and mocked, and groaned;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The mountains grew so high<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That the Man-in-the-Moon came out and said,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">"Ho! Spooks, for a merry dance."<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The winds blow hard, the caverns roar,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">While o'er the earth they prance.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmb" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/separator05.png" width="600" height="103" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/separator06.png" width="600" height="166" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">A Witch and a Goblin led the sprites;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Out from the sky they sprung;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And down the milky way they slid,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And over a chasm swung.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The streams around ran witches' broth,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The fumes were strong and rank.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">These Elfin creatures all were wroth,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">While of the stuff they drank.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/separator05.png" width="600" height="103" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter figmt figmb" style="width: 583px;">
+<img src="images/img05.png" width="583" height="700" alt="Down the Milky way" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter figmb" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/img06.png" width="200" height="249" alt="Sprite and Toadstool" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmb" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/img02.png" width="200" height="147" alt="Toadstool" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/separator06.png" width="600" height="166" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The cunning Moon looked on and laughed<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">With a shrill and sneering jibe;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her soul grew fat to see them chaffed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">This mad and elfish tribe.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The big black caldron boiled so high<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">With food for these queer mites,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That it lit the world throughout the sky,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And down came all the Sprites.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmb" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/separator05.png" width="600" height="103" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 578px;">
+<img src="images/img07.png" width="578" height="700" alt="The big black caldron" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/img15.png" width="400" height="184" alt="Goblin" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/separator06.png" width="600" height="166" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Their mad career upset a star,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As through the air they flew:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It cringed in fear, and shot afar,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And fell where no one knew.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Orion's sword was broke in bits,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Corona's crown was gone,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Capella seemed to lose her wits,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">While all so longed for dawn.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmb" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/separator05.png" width="600" height="103" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/separator06.png" width="600" height="166" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then from the night there came a sound<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Of sleigh-bells ringing sweet;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Out of the chaos came a man&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Kris Kringle&mdash;for his Christmas treat.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Ho! Kris!" they cried, "We'll have some fun,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">We'll bind the old man down,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We'll tie him up, and toss him o'er<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Into our Goblin-town."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmb" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/separator05.png" width="600" height="103" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 605px;">
+<img src="images/img09.png" width="605" height="700" alt="As through the air they flew" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/separator06.png" width="600" height="166" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">They climbed the sleigh with shout and din,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To bind his hands and feet;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A hundred strong they clambered in<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Our good old Kris to meet.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He sat quite still, with twinkling eyes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Then seized his mystic wand,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He raised it up, and waved it round<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Stilled was this chattering band.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmb" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/separator05.png" width="600" height="103" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter figmb" style="width: 508px;">
+<img src="images/img10.png" width="508" height="700" alt="They climbed the sleigh" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/img11.png" width="200" height="291" alt="Fairy" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/separator06.png" width="600" height="166" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Stiffly stark and still they stood,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Clad in elfish clothes;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Some were wax, and some were wood,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">One had crushed his nose.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Playthings rare," he said and smiled,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">"For children rich and poor;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Some I'll leave the crippled child,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And some at the orphan's door."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmb" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/separator05.png" width="600" height="103" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/separator06.png" width="600" height="166" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">He shook his reins, and called his steed<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To bear him swiftly on.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Full well it knew its Master's need<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To hurry e'er the dawn.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From house to house they scampered down,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Their sleigh-bells ringing clear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Through chimneys in the sleepy town&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Good Kris and his reindeer.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmb" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/separator05.png" width="600" height="103" alt="-----" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 647px;">
+<img src="images/img12.png" width="647" height="700" alt="'Playthings rare,' he said" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt figmb" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/img13.png" width="200" height="184" alt="Goblin" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/img01.png" width="200" height="133" alt="Goblin" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/img03.png" width="300" height="511" alt="Fairy Queen" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter figmt" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/img14.png" width="600" height="360" alt="Boy and Rabbit" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The windows rattled, the moonbeams tattled<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">A tale so strange and queer.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They told how at night, in dire affright<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The Moon had hid in fear.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/img15.png" width="400" height="184" alt="Goblin" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">That he'd called in sport his elfish court<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Of spooks and witches gay,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Each Elfin child, by glee beguiled,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Brought scores of others, they say.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then a man appeared, with flowing beard,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">In a sled with a reindeer fleet;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They gathered about with din and shout,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To bind him hands and feet.<br /></span></div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter figmt" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/img16.png" width="400" height="211" alt="Witch with Broom" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then the Moon laughed loud at the gathering crowd,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">While he held his sides in mirth,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To see old Kris in a plight like this,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Toiling o'er the earth.<br /></span></div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter figmt figmb" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/img17.png" width="400" height="341" alt="Elf and Spider" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/img18.png" width="400" height="203" alt="Falling" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But alas for the Moon, he had laughed like a loon,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">For Kris is a hero of old,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yes, Kris is a seer; with his small reindeer,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">He captured the Goblins bold.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And he changed them, they say in a wonderful way,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To toys, for his Christmas cheer.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The big dolls stare with a goblin air,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The small ones cringe with fear.<br /></span></div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/img13.png" width="200" height="184" alt="Goblin" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">While the moonbeams prattle, I hear a rattle<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Of hoofs on the chimney side;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then out on the snow I gaze below,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">"Hurrah! it's Kris Kringle," I cried.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then, sly as a mouse, he entered the house,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And hung up his treasures so gay.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then out with a dash, he sped like a flash,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Into the night, and away.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter figmt figmb" style="width: 565px;">
+<img src="images/img19.png" width="565" height="700" alt="For his Christmas treat" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/img20.png" width="200" height="307" alt="Witch" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter figmt figmb" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/img01.png" width="200" height="133" alt="Goblin" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
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