Excerpt from The Happy Years I loathe it! Answered Phoebe. Of course, it's unphilanthropic and uncivil and unsocial and uneverything, but I must admit that I perfectly adore the Christmas rush. Oh, hullo, Mary - say, are you ever coming to committee meeting again? Well, see that you do. I love to run around in the stores with crowds and crowds and crowds of other people, all just as excited as I am. Every thing always seems Christmas-sy and gay to me. I don't care how skimpy the shop Christmas-tree deco rations are, or how unconvincing-looking the shop Santa Clauses or how artificial the shop holly and mistletoe! I just love it. And if the weather is good, with snow on the ground and lots of sun shine, I feel as if I should skip and leap just as I did when I was a child. I know I shall miss it like the very dickens this December - staying at home with my hands folded. I'll feel as though some body's died and it's the day after the funeral. 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.