The Christmas Dinner

“I’d like to be a little boy now and then,” Grandfather says beside the Christmas fire—and Walter and Gertrude wonder what it was like when he was their age.

On a snowy farm, the evening before Christmas, the kitchen is warm with firelight and busy with preparations for tomorrow’s dinner. Mother has baked the pies and pudding, but she’s too tired to make the paper caps the children are hoping for. Walter and Gertrude race in from skating, snow forts and games, while Grandfather and Grandmother look back on childhood from their comfortable chairs. The old folks have plenty of memories—and a wistful wish to feel young again. With Christmas just hours away, could this be a night when the generations find more in common than they expect?

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