<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>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!</DIV>
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<DIV>Elaine</DIV>
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