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Title: Twas the Night before Christmas
A Visit from St. Nicholas
Author: Clement C. Moore
Illustrator: Jessie Willcox Smith
Release Date: November 22, 2005 [EBook #17135]
Language: English
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Twas the Night Before Christmas
A Visit from St. Nicholas
By Clement C. Moore
[Illustration]
With Pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith
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INTRODUCTION
Amid the many celebrations last Christmas Eve, in various places by different persons, there was one, in New York City, not like any other anywhere