How Mother Partridge fooled the fox / Hallie Holeman -- The baby partridges learn some lessons / Hallie Holeman -- What I know / Amy Elizabeth Leigh -- How Rag lost his ear / Hallie Holeman -- Molly's death / Hallie Holeman -- A greivous [sic] complaint / Eudora S. Bumstead -- Washington, the boy / Hallie Holeman -- A tadpole story -- A gentleman / Margaret E. Sangster -- Buster John, Sweetest Susan, and Drusilla learn animal talk / Abridged from "The story of Aaron" -- Cat's cradle / Mary Mapes Dodge -- The Cratchits' Christmas dinner / Charles Dickens -- The nicest one / Gladys Hytt -- Misery and company / St. Nicholas -- Three tramps / Youth's advocate -- In school / Sydney Dayre.