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She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.

In Germany, Santa has long been known as Kriss Kringel (derived from Christ Child). In America, the name is still used by the Pennsylvania Dutch.

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