Posted by
SteadyJohn on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 12:54:18 PM

A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas (1914-1953). Read it on line here and listen to the author read the story here.
One
Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town
corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the
voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never
remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was
twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I
was six....