Christmas legends / Denis McCarthy -- Carol of the birds / Bas-Quercy -- Wassail, wassail! / Old English carol -- So hallowed and so gracious is the time / Anne T. Eaton -- Barn / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Splendid gift / Valenti Angelo -- Friendly beasts / Old English carol -- Beautiful lady / Rhea Wells -- Words from an old Spanish carol / Ruth Sawyer -- Holy night / Selma Lagerlof -- Christmas folk song / Lisette Woodward Reese -- Christmas spider / Marguerite de Angeli -- Oxen / Thomas Hardy -- Little pagan faun / Patrick R. Chalmers -- Carol / Dorothy Sayers -- Three magi / Pura Belpre -- Twelfth night / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- About a noble camel / Antoniorrobles -- Eerily sweet / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Dulce domum / Kenneth Grahame -- Bethlehem / Katharine Tynan.