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Washington Irving's description of Old Christmas, Illustrated

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	CHRISTMAS EVE	61
	all the warmth wherewith we usually greet an old and very genteel acquaintance. The mirth of the company was greatly pro­moted by the humours of an eccentric personage whom Mr. Bracebridge always addressed with the quaint appellation of Master Simon. He was a tight, brisk little man, with the air of an arrant old bachelor. His nose was shaped like the bill of a parrot; his face slightly pitted with the small-pox,
	with a dry perpetual bloom on it, like a frost-bitten leaf in autumn. He had an eye of great quickness and vivacity, with a drollery and lurking waggery of expression that was irresistible. He was evi­dently the wit of the family, dealing very much in