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Originally Posted by issybird
Not a nibble, not a smidge of a guess. It's up to Hamlet.
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So the book is
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. So with that I am it again, eh? Sorry I am drawing a blank for another book with any sort of Christmas reference. It's still the fall season though so here is this:
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During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy ___________.
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