Daring escape tales of Pat O'Brien through war and rescue
A sprawling narrative chronicles Pat O'Brien’s Royal Flying Corps service in Canada and France, his capture and escape from German lines, final days in Belgium and Luxembourg, risky frontier crossings, and a Christmas eve tale of a boy named Ned who seeks shelter in a hollow tree and learns virtue.
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Royal Flying Corps
Canada
France
Ned
Santa Claus
Nedfie
Gilt Suggestions That May Be Useful
A collection of frugal gift ideas with humorous, ironic tips for pleasing family and friends. It suggests repurposing items such as a full size piano or a second hand bicycle with improvised motors, and includes quirky endorsements like a ten carat diamond for a fiancée or a touring car as an affordable alternative.
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Milton
C. B. Quincy
New York American
Christmas Hearths And Father Christmas In New Orleans
In a New Orleans Times-Democrat poem, winter scenes unfold with a sheltered street, a traveler in snow, and a warm hearth inside. The piece celebrates Christmas kindness, kinship, and welcome, ending with Father Christmas sending greetings and embracing prodigals.
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Father Christmas
Fort
Father
Frank Walcott Hutt
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Her Little Prayer on Thanksgiving Eve
A young girl visiting her grandmother in a big eastern city finds a brand new white muff she suspects Santa will bring. Grandma confesses the gift, but the child in prayer asks God to forget about it until Christmas day.
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Santa Claus
Grandma
New York Times
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Paul Rainey
Courtrail
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Frontier
Tolland
ED Wayne
Mrs. Wayne
Neddy
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Red Cross
Clarissa Mackie
UEP Splru
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Disisiaiaiaiswian
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