... CHRISTMAS AS IT IS, AND CHRISTMAS AS USED TO BE. It needs not the holly-decked windows and the mislcloe-guarded roof to tell us that ruerry Christmas has cotre to see again. has dotted his snow, cloak, with hoar-frost embroidery and the icicle star that ...

... 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. Christmas is coming,” says the merchant, I must make up bills and make out bills ; I shall be put to trouble and I shall put others to inconvenience.” “Christm»s is coming,*’ says the landlord, ii and the lawyer will look for his mortgage money ...

... CHRISTMAS. (from the literary gazette.) °w- tUn ° n > Christmas! I»th ls the merry time And the bell., rung their glorious chime thatl know, ••re living on a character Acquired long co . -j *J la o'er the streets [ You un atu lllu rky air For th■ !** ...

... 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. 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 ...

... CHRISTMAS. To our readers, greeting! We wish you all and individually A merry Christmas. There is something mirth-inspiring in the very sound of the word-- Christmas! It carried with it such recollections of light hearti, bright faces, gladsome smiles ...

... CHRISTMAS. many thing* have been said of late years about Christmas, that i. ...

... CHRISTMAS. Hail the night when gather once more All the forms we love to meet; When we’ve mum guest that’s dear to our breast. And the household dog our feet. Who would not the circle of glee When heart to heart yearning• When joy breathes out the laughing ...

... Christmas. Och, exclaimed a native of the Emerald Isle, in ■ our hearing, few days since, bad luck to the crathur that would not throw thrubble to the pigs at Christmas. my sowl the baste ought to be running postman between Shanbally and Mullingar ...

... 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 ...

... TO CHRISTMAS. (From Dear llt n't Monthly Mi need any.') Old Chrtatmaa ! merry Christmas ! thou art with once again. And thy laugh of free light-heartedness goes ringing o’er the' plain ; Thy step the step of youth, which knoweth nought of care. And holly ...