Old Christmas Recalled - online book

Washington Irving's description of Old Christmas, Illustrated

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	58                                   CHRISTMAS EVE
	having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient custom.* It was really delightful to see the old Squire seated in his hereditary elbow-chair by the
	hospitable fireside of his ancestors, and looking around him like the sun of a system, beaming warmth and gladness to every heart. Even the very dog that lay stretched at his feet, as he lazily shifted his position and yawned, would look * See Note B.