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!"