short Christmas stories The Child’s Story By Charles Dickens Listen to the story The Child’s Story Once upon a time, a good many years ago, there was a traveler who set out on a journey. It was a magic journey and was to seem very long when he began it and very short when he got halfway through. He traveled along a rather dark path for some little time without meeting anything until, at last, he came to a beautiful child. So he said to the child, “What do you do here?” And the child said, “I am always at play. Come and play with me!” So, he played with that child the whole day long, and they were very merry. The sky was so…