... 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, 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. 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 ...

... of bosoms half so light! England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. ’Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale ’Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the ...

... readers an account of some of the ancient Christmas custom'' On Christmas-eve, as soon as it was dark, candles of au size, called Christmas candles, were lighted up, and.l log.of wood called YULE Lon, or Christmas block, was upon the fire, to illuminate ...

... 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. i* jreal aod table pmgre«« going forward • ( world, I Iwugiug the old and .««i|de a*pe ...

... 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 ...