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A German legend for Christmas Eve as told by _Elizabeth Harrison_
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, on the night before / Christmas, a little child was wandering all alone through the streets / of a great city. There were many people on the street, fathers and / mothers, sisters and brothers, uncles and aunts, and even gray-haired / grandfathers and grandmothers, all of whom were hurrying home with / bundles of presents for each other and for their little ones. Fine / carriages rolled by, express wagons rattled past, even old carts were / pressed into service, and all things seemed in a hurry and glad with / expectation of the coming Christmas morning.[19]