A women prays on Christmas eve while her children sleep. Their soldier father spends Christmas in the field.
Illustration from Christmas Drawings for the Human Race, by Thomas Nast, 1889.
Special Feature: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol :
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.