Includes 18 stories: A Christmas tree -- What Christmas is, as we grow older -- A round of stories by the Christmas fire -- Another round of stories by the Christmas fire -- The seven poor travellers -- The Holly-Tree Inn -- The wreck of the Golden Mary -- The perils of certain English prisoners, and their treasure in women, children, silver, and jewels -- A house to let -- The haunted house -- A message from the sea -- Tom Tiddler's ground -- Somebody's luggage -- Mrs. Lirriper's lodgings -- Mrs. Lirriper's legacy -- Doctor Marigold's prescriptions -- Mugby Junction -- No thoroughfare.