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Christmas in Sweden or A Festival of Light

BY
SARAH GERTRUDE POMEROY

ILLUSTRATED BY
BERTHA D. HOXIE



BOSTON
DANA ESTES & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS{4}

Copyright, 1911

By Dana Estes & Company
All rights reserved

CHRISTMAS IN SWEDEN

Electrotyped and Printed byTHE COLONIAL PRESSC. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U.S.A.
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CHRISTMAS IN SWEDEN
THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHT

“A telegram for you, sir.” Elfreda, the pretty Swedish maid, handed theenvelope to Professor Edgecombe as the family were seated at breakfastone spring morning. Telegrams were not unusual in that household, soDorothy and John, the Professor’s children, scarcely heeded theinterruption and were unprepared for the excitement which thisparticular bit of yellow paper aroused in their quiet home. When theirfather had read the message, he passed it across the table to his wife,who dropped the sugar-tongs in her eagerness, as soon as she had glancedat the message.

“Oh, George,” she cried, “it’s too good to be true that you really havethe appointment.”

“What is it?” cried both children in chorus, distracted from theirconversation by the unusual excitement of their little mother.

“It means that we are all going to Sweden to spend father’s sabbaticalyear,” replied their mother.

“All of us?” asked Dorothy quickly. She had not welcomed the period ofrest called a sabbatical year which comes to most New England collegeprofessors once in seven years, because she remembered that many of herplaymates had spent the year with relatives while their parentstravelled in Europe, and home-loving little Dorothy dreaded a similarparting.{6}

“Do you really mean that we are going too?” asked John incredulously.

“That’s exactly what your mother means,” said Professor Edgecombe.“Mother and I couldn’t go away for a year and leave you children athome. Besides it is not going to be entirely a year of rest for me, forthis telegram has brought me an appointment to spend the yeartranslating some stories of the old Norsemen into English. The oldIcelandic document which I am to study is in Sweden and so we can settlethere for th

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