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Excerpt from The Chase of the Meteor: And Other Stories His little book, made up of stories from time to time contributed to St. Nicholas, Harper's Young People, the Wide Awake, etc., is here offered as a holiday dish of junkets to all boys and girls, alike the good and the naughty, With a Merry Christmas from their constant friend the author. Courtesies from Messrs. Harper and Brothers, and D. Lothrop and Company, in the matter of copyright, are gratefully acknowledged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.