Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag

As grandmothers rummage their piece-bags and bundles in search of gay odds and ends to make gifts with which to fill the little stockings that hang all in a row on Christmas Eve, so I have gathered together some stories, old and new, to amuse the large family that has so rapidly and beautifully grown up about me.I hope that when they promenade in night-caps and gowns to rifle the plump stockings, the little ''dears'' will utter an ''Oh!'' of pleasure, and give a prance of satisfaction, as they pull out this small gift from Aunt Jo''s Scrap-Bag.Christmas Holidays,