nonestartedpiecedrawingsmartestcolouredinterestingfirst 附原文：Every December millions of Christmas cards go through the post. There are pictures of stars and snow or Christmas trees .In these days it is hard to think of a Christmas without Christmas cards. Yet little over a hundred and fifty years ago there were none of all. Here is just one story about how people began to send Christmas cards.
Some boys of those days who were ata boarding schools had to write a special piece of English letter at Chrisimas time . This was sent to their parents so that they could see how the boys’work was during the year.
Young people liked to make little drawing on the paper when they wrote letters or poems. They used to draw little pictures all round the writings. Sometimes they them,and after a time the pictures bacame more interesting than the writings. These were the first Christmas cards