... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ;THE leaves are fallen, the trees are bare, And biting is ihe frosty air; The fields are whiten'd o'er with snow; The brooks that shallow ran, and slow, And scarce their wonted course could crawl, Now sweep along with angry brawl. The smoke ...

... -,_ CHRISTMAS. YES, Christmas is coming !—there's joy in the sound,— The season of mirth, in its annual round: The voices we love will be gathered once more, To mourn o'er the absence of those gone before. Yes, Christmas is coming !—now relatives ...

... CHRISTMAS. Christmas is coming !—there's joy in the sound,— The season of mirth, in its annual round: The voices we love will be gathered once more, To mourn o'er the absence of those gone before. Yes, Christmas is coming !—now relatives cling _ 'To homes ...

... CHRISTMAS. THE Yule Log will soon burn ruddily on the 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 of youth ...

... CHRISTMAS BILLS. • (FROM THE COMIC ALM4NACK.) • (Mrs. Figgins speaks.) Merry Christmas and happy New Year! Here's a bundle of little accounts: And their bearers left word they'd be glad If you'd settle their little amounts. They've all got large sums ...

... -CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENTS. VCRING the past week the managers of our various places of public amusement have been actively engaged in the production of attractions suited to the season. Perhaps on no 'former occasion were they so successful, whether as regards ...