Alice’s Christmas-Tree

Alice's Christmas-Tree by Edward Everett Hale begins with a generous young woman's plan to host a small Christmas party for poor neighborhood children — a plan that spirals into joyful chaos and ends in tears when the evening descends into pushing, shouting, and near-riot. But after the wreck of the party, three street boys — Pat Crehore, Bill Floyd, and the rough Tom Mulligan — are quietly moved by what they saw, and set out to make things right in a way none of them can fully explain, even to themselves.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-short-stories--6577582/support.