The first sequel to Mountain Born.
This book starts out on Christmas Eve, a few months after Biddy dies. Peter's mother tells of one winter, long ago, when she found a flower in a little patch of forest on Christmas Eve that was blooming, even though the rest of the woods were covered in snow. They leave to go to town for a service, I think.
Peter stays home with Old Benj who begins telling him a beautiful rendition of the Christmas story. However, in his version, the animals talk to each other at midnight, and he has heard them before.
Peter stays up until midnight, and then goes out in the barn, and hears the animals telling of the first Christmas as well.
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