Excerpt from The Man Who Found Christmas When Mercer had broached to him the idea of the to-hell-with-the-merry-yule-tide Association, he had fallen in eagerly with the scheme. Fine He cried. I loathe Christmas. The club is always so desolate on that day, and the service so bad Every year you have to subscribe to an em ployees' Christmas fund, and then when the day ar rives half the employees are missing and the rest act as if they wish they were. There's nobody to dine with. You have to sit at the general table, with men you don't know, and every last one of 'em eats as if his food choked him. It's worse than Sundays in August. Besides, I've got an aunt in Somerville, Mass, who always sends me a present You bet I'm for the association About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.