The gift of the Magi / O. Henry -- Christmas Jenny / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Christmas every day / William Dean Howells -- From the garden of a friend / Mary Agnes Tincker -- The Christmas club / Edward Eggleston -- Vanka / Anton Chekhov -- Reginald's Christmas revel / Saki -- Mrs. Podgers' teapot / Louisa May Alcott -- The story of the goblins who stole a sexton / Charles Dickens -- The Christmas shadrach / Frank Stockton -- Dancing Dan's Christmas / Damon Runyon -- Christmas storms and sunshine / Elizabeth Gaskell -- The blue carbuncle / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The bachelor's Christmas / Robert Grant -- How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar / Bret Harte -- The man who was like Shakespeare / William Black.