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I just recently ordered a copy of?this story?in German for myself: it's in Micky
Maus 2012-51. You can get it from the German eBay (ebay.de), from the seller
"six-years",?who ships worldwide. Just put "Micky Maus 51 2012" in the search
engine. I have bought things from this seller before and it's worked out fine.
This story is actually the third in a set of three stories about Donald trying
to revive/adopt various Christmas traditions. I happen already to have #1 in
German, through a fluke; in that one?Donald and HDL visit Grandma Duck to find
again the Christmas traditions of his childhood (working on the European theory
that Donald as a child lived with Grandma Duck). I've ordered the second as well
as the third, just for completion's sake. In the second Donald tries to force
HDL to take part in a Santa Lucia celebration. But it's the third, Donald's
Homemade Christmas, which has the first use of Scrooge's family of origin
(parents, Matilda and Hortense) outside of Rosa's work. I'm very interested to
see it! I wonder whether Matilda appears in "the present" in the story or
whether she only appears in flashback?as a child, via Scrooge's memories. But
even if the old Matilda doesn't appear, I'll still be fascinated to see what
Byron Erickson does with Scrooge's family.

It's?my understanding?that in 19th-century Scotland people wouldn't actually
have?celebrated Christmas--just Hogmanay (New Year's), and that was not exactly
a family-centered holiday. But while Rosa would have stuck to those facts, I
don't expect other writers to!

Elaine