Old Christmas Recalled - online book

Washington Irving's description of Old Christmas, Illustrated

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	98                                   CHRISTMAS DAY
	piled one above the other, among which I parti­cularly noticed that of the village tailor, a pale fellow with a retreating forehead and chin, who
	played on the clarionet, and seemed to have blown his face to a point; and there was another, a short pursy man, stooping and labouring at a bass viol, so as to show nothing but the top of a round bald head, like the egg of an ostrich. There were two or three pretty faces among the female