Old Christmas Recalled - online book

Washington Irving's description of Old Christmas, Illustrated

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	12                                     CHRISTMAS
	its feudal hospitalities, and lordly wassailings, have passed away with the baronial castles and stately manor-houses in which they were cele-
	brated. They comported with the shadowy hall, the great oaken gallery, and the tapes­tried parlour, but are unfitted to the light showy