... we may and shall have a merry Christmas and a happy new year. We have heard many wish each other the fruition of this blessing, but we tell themt they must wouie as well as wish. The only avenue to a merry Christmas and a happy new year is the Charter-it ...

... and at once issues orders for the invitation of all his sub- jects and their relations, thus suggesting a Christmas family party-which, like Christmas family parties generally, is sure to end in a squabble. The second scene affords us a peep, and something ...

... l CHRISTMAS. It is, no doubt, true that compared with the olden festival, our modern Christmas is but a dull celebra- tion. 'Twas merrier in the hall when beards wagged all at royal revel or barronial banquet and mask and mummer followed between the boar's ...

... large number! Mi of natrons throuigbout the Christmas holidays. WI Daring Cltrismas D~ay the places of amem, tb were, aos Usual, (30lied, hut several sacre~d concerts 'i~l were held]. Bit The cristomnarv Christmas Day performance of by ICThe ?? was eiv~n ...

... and knitted, And Gottlieb sat and dreamed, When a happy fancy all at once lpou his visiou beamed. 'Twas only a week till Christmas, And Gottlieb knew that then The Christ-child, who was born that day, Sent down good gifts to men. But he said, R He will ...

... hailed thy coming on. Brave Christmas l merry Christmas I Then roared the cotters chimney loud, Then roared the hearth in palace proud, And rich and poor were gay. Oh I sons of English soil, once more Welcome brave Christmas, as of yore; The open hand ...

... 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 ...

... the Wassail-CttP lehe ?? ivrinliles, or the humor tha vtitilee taint fiewinls As helplessly le laughs. And of all ?? 'tie Christmas Mlost richlv crowvns the venr; ?? throatil the land theic Vipples aud rcns Its flo)od *f nierro gori cheer. Troops of friends ...

... Christmastide come round, Again will Christmas chinies resound; s Agatn will hapw children come e 'lo spend their olidaye at home. While joyous children full of glee Dance round the sparkling Christmas tree, And Christmas music fills the air, There sits outside ...

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... CHRISTMAS. There is a Word, that, like a spell, Can call the past to Fancy's view, Of by-gone scenes and pleasures tell, And Childhood's dimple joys renew. There is a Word, whose pow'r can flingt A hallow'd sadness o'er the breast, And to the eye of Memory ...

... CHRISTMAS. All Hail! sweet Christmas Holidays, Fountain of many a fairy hope. -Wayside Musings. Once more the changing seasons have revolved round, and we are upon the very threshold of another Merrie Christmas. The Old Year, With its joys and sorrows ...