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100 1 _aRobertson, Lida B.
245 1 0 _aJakie's Christmas
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-22
508 _aSusan E., David E. Brown, Andrew Butchers, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _aJakie's Christmas by Lida B. Robertson is a children’s Christmas short story written in the early 20th century. Centered in the rural American South, it explores a poor boy’s search for Santa and discovers instead the deeper meaning of generosity, love, and community. Jakie, an orphaned country boy living with his grandmother Mamsy, sees a picture promising Santa’s gifts in town and secretly sets out to find him. After a farmer gives him a ride and a few nickels, the child becomes lost and freezing, until a kind young woman, Frances Bestor, rescues him, outfits him warmly, buys him a toy, and even provides a new cloak for Mamsy and a hidden sack of Christmas treats. Grateful, Jakie and Mamsy send her a turkey and fatwood as their own love-gifts. Jakie then brings cheer to their lonely neighbor, Mr. Cripple Jim, persuading him to hang a stocking and, on Christmas Eve, sneaks in dressed as Santa to fill it. On Christmas morning Jakie finds an express wagon and a harness for his billy goat, shares his stocking with Mamsy, and Mr. Cripple Jim rejoices over his surprises. The story affirms that the true Santa is anyone who acts with tender-hearted generosity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBoston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1927
653 _aChristmas stories
653 _aBoys -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aGrandparent and child -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aAlabama -- Juvenile fiction
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x030743233&seq=1
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77524
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