Fairies and the Christmas Child
Author: first_name: Lilian
last_name: Gask
Language: English
Year: 1912

The worst of being a Christmas Child is that you don’t get birthday presents, but only Christmas ones. Old Naylor, who was Father’s coachman, and had a great gruff voice that came from his boots and was rather frightening, used to ask how I expected to grow up without proper birthdays, and I thought I might have to stay little always. When I told Father this he laughed, but a moment later he grew quite grave.<br>“Listen, Chris,” he said. And then he took me on his knee - I was a small chap then