Old Christmas Recalled - online book

Washington Irving's description of Old Christmas, Illustrated

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	84                                CHRISTMAS DAY
	display of cold meats, wine and ale, on the sideboard. After breakfast I walked about the grounds with Frank Bracebridge and Master Simon, or Mr. Simon, as he was called by everybody but the Squire. We were escorted by a number of gentlemen-like dogs, that seemed loungers about the establishment; from the frisking spaniel to the steady old stag-hound ; the last of which was