... 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 ...

... 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. One may have written and thought (which is a thousand times more comprehensive than writing, a process that is very apt to surferthe evaporation of thought) many and many limes about Christmas, and yet never have gone to the bottom of the subject ...

... 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. Floriferij ut apes in saltibus omnia libant. I sing of festivals and fairs and plays. HEKRICK. A chapter on CHRISTMAS will not be -an unacceptable article at the fire-side. during the ensuing festive We have made it as full as our limn» —tia»c ...

... spirit has paid a more 'williig homage than to that of the celebration of Christmas with all due honour and fitting joviality. Born animid its festivities, it is very Father Christmas to me, and, from the time of my childhood, when it wsas a holiday of three ...

... constant mutations and revolutions. It is not that ,Christmas is changed, but that we are changed, and that the voisole world is changed around us. This in-coninig Christmas is no more like any past Christmas ot' our lives, than frost is liko smoke, or smoke ...

... CHRISTMAS. To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. Sin,—My paternal mansion is situated in a small parish, on the road between Newport and Pontypool. I remember, in my earliest infancy, that some of the inhabi- tants of the village were accustomed ...

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... w;alketh in thy train, wvith guy l.esti- d city,- b T'icoy hetir the wassnil-bowl bstiveon,enid deeply quaf' to tboe. ii Old Christmas a merry Chrisotmnas ull worldly cure 't alwhile A Is banished, anl ilark Sorrow flies the suntshine of 0 thy smile ; I We ...

... spoken out moat lustily in praise of the good old custom of oh- servirrg Christmas, but wvhy should wve do so ? -People are every- w^here too merry to mnind us. Had wve said that Christmas came from Clrristi saissa, meaning the mass of Christ, arid that every ...

... keeps not the Festival-of Nativity on December 25, nor recog- nizes Christmas day in any way whatever. The great body of its members are not even aware why that day is called Christmas. So much so, that when a good unsophisticated Scottislh Presbyterian ...