Old Christmas Recalled - online book

Washington Irving's description of Old Christmas, Illustrated

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	14	CHRISTMAS
	man," I have listened with a hushed delight,
	everything to melody and beauty : The very crowing of the cock, who is sometimes heard in the profound repose of the country, " telling the night watches to his feathery dames," was thought by the common people to announce the approach of this sacred festival :—