Old Christmas Recalled - online book

Washington Irving's description of Old Christmas, Illustrated

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	30                              THE STAGE COACH
	The smith, with the horse's heel in his lap, pauses as the vehicle whirls by; the Cyclops round the anvil suspend their ringing hammers, and suffer the iron to grow cool; and the sooty spectre in brown paper cap, labouring at the bellows, leans on the handle for a moment, and permits the