Re: Christmas vs. Winter Holiday


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Posted by Ed Kiser on November 04, 2006 at 16:31:42 from 70.145.17.182 user Kisered.

In Reply to: Christmas vs. Winter Holiday posted by Kathy_S on October 30, 2006 at 01:02:32:

Found eighteen places that references the word: "CHRISTMAS" in these twelved stories. Many of these are referring to "Christmas pudding" and not necessarily the religious observance.

Here are the results of a "FIND" on "Christmas" ---


---------- BSCH20.TXT
"I'll have to give myself new ones for a Christmas
[Parson, referring to new bicycle tyres.]


---------- BSCH31.TXT
reminded Pete of Bill's Christmas pudding, Dick was


---------- BSCH9.TXT
"Christmas pudding," said Pete.
"Christmas pudding," said Pete, reading aloud from this
coming backwards into the cabin, bearing the Christmas


---------- GNCH4.TXT
dark, like Christmas pudding.


---------- PDCH1.TXT
been the best of Susan's Christmas presents and ever since Christmas
[referring to a First Aid Kit Susan received last Christmas.]

---------- PPCH18.TXT
Christmas holidays, Dick had rescued a crag-fast sheep. But

---------- PPCH25.TXT
found the page where, in the Christmas holidays, Nancy

---------- PPCH29.TXT
tools in the knife he had been given at Christmas. Then,
[John, like Nancy in WH, had received a file as a part of his new
knife. He used his to cut some old iron railing to make the cross
bars to hold the crucible within the blast furnace. Nancy, in WH,
had used her file, also in a pocket knife received for Christmas,
to cut an iron bar to put into the Igloo's fireplace to hold the
cooking pot over the fire. Interesting that these two knives, both
Christmas presents, each had a file, and both were used to cut iron
bars.]

---------- SDCH12.TXT
story they had made up in the Christmas holidays. There was no

---------- SDCH3.TXT
all sorts of things that had been happening since Christmas. They

---------- SDCH7.TXT
to meet Captain Flint. They had not seen him since the Christmas
[This is referring to their visit in the wherry with CF when they
invented the tale that became the book, "Peter Duck."]

---------- WHCH25.TXT
Christmas plum-pudding (that Captain Flint set on fire in the

---------- WHCH28.TXT
day: two cold chickens and a Christmas pudding and what not,

---------- WHCH3.TXT
Howe ever since Christmas and that they, too, would be going

---------- WHCH4.TXT
"I got a pocket-knife with a file in it at Christmas," said Captain
[This is Nancy's knife, used to cut the bar holding the kettle over
the fire in the igloo.]

---------- WHCH9.TXT
"It's really as if the Christmas holidays began today instead of

[While the book was named "Winter Holiday" they seem to refer to this part of the year as the "Christmas Holidays" in many places in these
stories.]

Ed Kiser, Kentucky


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