by Bill Roushey | Dec 18, 2018 | Christmas stories, Holiday, Uncategorized
Written by Carolyn S. Bailey. If you were a Russian child you would not watch to see Santa Klaus come down the chimney; but you would stand by the windows to catch a peep at poor Babouscka as she hurries by. Who is Babouscka? Is she Santa Klaus’ wife? No, indeed. She...
by Bill Roushey | Dec 9, 2018 | Christmas stories, Holiday, Living, Uncategorized
Written in 1804 by the brothers Grimm. Published as entry 39 in Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Translated in 1884 by Margaret Hunt in which she titled the piece, “The Elves.” A shoemaker, by no fault of his own, had become so poor that at last he had nothing...