Christmas Stories: "Jest 'Fore Christmas" and "The Night Before Christmas" is a collection of two short stories by Clement C. Moore. Moore was an American author, scholar and real estate contractor. Excerpt:

"Father calls me William, sister calls me Will,

Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers call me Bill!

Mighty glad I ain't a girl—ruther be a boy,

Without them sashes, curls, an' things that's worn by Fauntleroy!

Love to chawnk green apples an' go swimmin' in the lake—

Hate to take the castor-ile they give for belly-ache!

'Most all the time the whole year round, there ain't no flies on me,

But jest 'fore Christmas, I'm as good as I kin be!"