... the year keeps many a clerk closer to his desk during the Christmas holvdays than at any other season. But the great majority of his 'Majesty's - liege subjects still enjoy Christmas as Christmas, See how every house is decorated with green boughs. The ...

... le to tile season, ninece-pies, and vishes for 1 a merry Christmas and a happy New-year. It is only in the more primitive parts of the country that the oldien customs romain. 'The Christmas carols whichl were sulig about from door to door, for a week ...

... CHRISTMAS. it is the season for gathering together of fatnily connexions, and drawing closer again those bands of kindred hearts which the cares, pleasures, and sorrows of the wild are continually operating to cast loose,—of calling back the children ...

... set forth something more than. thary on the Christmas-day table, and welcome withl a 'ia-Oextra guest. An English gentloman ' of the olden 'was surrounded by Ihis tenants and neighbours Sy day- on Christmas morning. The strong beer wasibroachbd, ae blac; ...

... CHRISTMAS, rpHE YULE-LOG will soon burn ruddily on the I hearth ; the tables will be spread with luxurious cheer ; merry guests will have assembled ; the toast will go round ; the song will enchant all hearers; the cheek of beauty will glow; the heart ...

... CHRISTMAS When ihe Uin ««» nf, Anrt ’n*«th it« wood* non, With of life, and joy, and lo»e, Spnnatn* from d-11, and glad**, and grotie, Tho earth wakea from it* supine. To h*»nour sweet Saint Valentine And .Nature, like a bride, rejoiees To greet her lower ...

... CHRISTMAS. It is the season for gathering together of family connexions, and drawing closer again those bands of kindred hearts which the cares, pleasures, and sorrows of the world are continually operating to cast loose,—of calling back the children ...

... CHRISTMAS. BY ROBERT ROBB, TUB BARD OF COLOUR, AND LAUREATE OP THE WESTERN ISLES. OLD Christmas once more visits us with frozen mien of grace, His steps o'er country and through town how cheerily we trace; What feelings now of festive glee are bounding ...

... CHRISTMAS. Mid thus, as in memory's bark, we shall glide To visit the scenes of our childhood anew 'Though oft we may see, looking down on the tide, The wreck of full many a hope shining through. CHRISTMAS-DAY is either the most happy or the mournful ...

... CHRISTMAS. THE 3.IARK ETS : PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. CHRISTMAS is always a happy time, and, being so, we would it came oftener than once a year. For the occasion old age seems to forget its years, the sick their ailments, and even the gloom occasioned by months ...

... CHRISTMAS. In alluding to the festivities of Christmas, contend that while is the duty of every Cbnsl'so lo engage in acts of pntlie and private devotioo, yet, while due atteotioo is paid to religious observances, it would be pity to see the good old ...

... CHRISTMAS. ! ., -.1 - . . ., . , I m F (From the Illuminoted Magazine.) Now do the ipells of home revive in their ancient weight, within the breasts of maby and many a household band, long sundered from thb hearths round which they clustered in their ...