Elizabeth Simonetti, age 15, of Gadsden, Ala., for her question:

WHAT IS BOXING DAY?

Boxing Day is a holiday in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and in some of the Canadian provinces. It is celebrated the day after Christmas, on December 26.

If December 26 happens to fall on a Sunday, Boxing day is celebrated on December 27.

Boxing Day started in the custom of giving Christmas boxes to tradesmen, servants and minor public officials, such as postmen and lamplighters. Today many families give money instead of boxes.

Boxing Day is now part of the legal Christmas holidays in England and in a number of other countries.

Boxing Day is also known as St. Stephen's Day. It is traditionally the time for a kind of theatrical called a Christmas pantomime.