... valley, en Christmas-day morning, to listen to the ringing of the bells of the church beneath them! This it was positively asserted might be beard by putting the ear to the ground, and h ear k en i n g attentively. Even now, it is usual OA Christmas morning ...

... CHRISTMAS. 11 just published, a New Edition of HE HOMILY On the NATIVITY of om : BLESSED LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST; oeing a suitable ',Met for distribution at this season. Price Id., Or 5. per 100. ; Ala°, TWENTY-THREE SERMONS, preached before the ...

... chrixtnaat. A SONG FOR GOOD FELLOWS, YOUNG AND OLD. lBi LEIGH HUNT. Christmas comes 1 He comes, he comes, Usber'd with a rain of plums - Hollies in the windows greet Aim; Schools come driving post to meet him Gifts precede him, bells proclaim him, Every ...

... C: I ChrI AL SONG FOR GOOD FELLOWS, YOUNG AND OU1 ' BY LEXIGH HUNT. Christmas comes! He comes, he comes, Usher'd with a rain of plums' Hollies in the wvindows greet him; Schools came driving post to meet him Gifts precede him, bells proclaim him, Every ...

... CHRISTMAS. ANCIENT AND MODERN CHRISTMAS. Anciently there was in the King's house, says Stow, wheresoever he lodged, at the feast of Christmas, a ' Lord of Misrule, or Master of Merry Disports ?? and the like also was there in the house of every Nobleman ...

... CHRISTMAS The neighbours were friendly bidden And all iiad welcome true; The poor from the gates were not chidden When this old cap was new. — Old Son;?. The Christmas season, with all its pleasant associations, itt good old customs, and its heart-easing ...

... CHRISTMAS. So, Christmas is come round again. We hardly feel the time pus away, when the anniversaries remind us of the Wears we are burying under our feet as we journey onward. e count all things but time. Merry old Christmas !—how many pleasant and ...

... This was the part that Christmas used to act when Christmas ruled the roast : when Kings held court-days in honour of the King of Kings, and threw off state and grandeur to do homage to the humility of the Highest. Benevolent Christmas! He used to relieve ...

... were singing as if spring had set in. It was even milder in the country than in London. CHRISTMAS CHErRt.-One poulterer of Spald- ing sent to the Londom Christmas market 1,930 geese, 965 turkeys, 835 ducks, and 200 fowls. One hamper of the geese, 24 in ...

... CHRISTMAS, THAT man must be cf a hard, phlegmatic disposition, who is not roused up at the name of Christmas—a name so powerfully associated, from youth upwards, hat the very word on paper has a look of warmth and abundance in it—of richness and hospitality ...

... CHRISTMAS Cbriatir.st. Dali winter in and globaa Once more baa r turn’d io our iale; Yet >.ll thing# a cheerful appearance Af d winder deck'd with tanie.’' eye with a 'ultrafl'‘Wß bright. Though tbigloonoaot Decembtr preTti!, And aged and young, wito ...

... wine. And dance tbe merry jig. When poorer grown my Christmas fare. Was beef and pudding plain. Instead of grog a pot of beer, Nor did I then complain. But now my mirth is turn’d to grief. For Christmas-day is near; No turkey, padding, goose, no beef, 'No ...