Old Christmas Recalled - online book

Washington Irving's description of Old Christmas, Illustrated

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80
CHRISTMAS DAY
with the smoke from the cottage chimneys hanging over it; and a church with its dark spire in strong relief against the clear cold sky. The house was surrounded with ever­greens, according to the English custom, which would have given almost an appearance of summer; but the morn­ing was extremely frosty; the light vapour of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold, and covered all the trees and every blade of grass with its fine crystallisations. The rays of a bright morning sun had a dazzling effect among the glitter-
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