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"Once upon a time," said my Grandmother, as we sat together one / Christmas Day when all the others had gone to church, "there was a man / who went out at night to borrow some fire. ‘Help me, kind people,' he / said. ‘My wife has a little baby, and I must light a fire to warm her / and the child. '[23]