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Christmas Candle Beneath Smoky Hill Blizzard
In a stark frontier scene, mail carrier Mr. Witherspoon reflects on loneliness at Grandma Gabel’s home and plans a Christmas surprise. Ruth Ravenston hides a phonograph for Tully, hoping to brighten a lonely Christmas Eve as a blizzard bears down.
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Grandma Gabel
Tully
Tobe
Little Tulley
Grandma
Mr. Witherspoon
Old
Vermont
Christ
Tod
Tee Jennings
Elbert McCullen
Old Abram
Star
New York City
Ted
Kansas
Smoky Hill Valley
High Plains
Elbert
Gabels
Ruth Ravenstow
Methuselah
Tully Gabel
Smoky Hill River Valley
Nome City
Alaska
Ruth Ravenston
Gabel
Mrs. Gabel