Classic Stories. Christmas Eve On Lonsome and also The Army Of The Callahan, The Pardon Of Becky Day, A Crisis For The Guard andd Christmas Night With Satan. It was Christmas Eve on Lonesome. But nobody on Lonesome knew that it was Christmas Eve, although a child of the outer world could have guessed it, even out in those wilds where Lonesome slipped from one lone log cabin high up the steeps, down through a stretch of jungled darkness to another lone cabin at the mouth of the stream.