Here's a Christmas one from, actor, John Laurence Toole. 1888.
From the book "Reminiscences of J.L.Toole - Related by Himself"
I'll paraphrase because it's buried somewhere in the book.

One Christmas season Toole was playing alongside a little girl in the play, "A Christmas Carol". The child was playing the part of Tiny Tim. During the last scene there was a big Christmas banquet. A real one with real food. All the actors enjoyed this bit -- they were all poor and often hungry. None of them enjoyed it as much as the little girl, however. Toole kept filling her plate as she put it out for more. The play ran for weeks and he didn't actually realize how much food she was putting away until well into the play's season. About the middle of the season he found out how she did it. She was stashing as much food as she could into her clothing and taking it home to her family. She had many siblings and the family was very poor. After this Toole managed to secretly help her get away with as much of the feast as possible.