Soon the door opened and the children were called into the large guest-room (page 10)
The New Year’s Carol
By
Johanna Spyri
Translated from the German by
Alice Howland Goodwin
with pictures by
Grace Edwards Wesson
Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
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| Soon the door opened and the children were called into the large guest-room (page 10) | Colored frontispiece | |
| “Wait,” said Barty, “I will tell you how it goes.” | 6 | |
| Summer-time came and the grass on the high slopes was cut | 12 | |
| The wonder grew until Franzelie found a card | 32 | |
The New Year’s Carol
Near the fortress of the little Swiss village above Altdorf are greenmeadows with fragrant grass and fresh flowers. They are beautiful tolook upon and wander over. Shady nut-trees stand here and there, andthrough the meadow rushes a foaming brook that makes wild leaps overthe rocks that lie in its course.
At the end of this village, where stands an old ivy-covered tower, apath[2] runs along by the brook-side. Here is a very large old nut-tree,and it is a delight to the weary wanderer to throw himself down in itscool shade and gaze far up at the blue sky and high mountains whosetops are lost in the white clouds. Near the tree is a bridge over th