Old Christmas Recalled - online book

Washington Irving's description of Old Christmas, Illustrated

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	132                      THE CHRISTMAS DINNER with which the butler and other servants executed the duties assigned them, however eccentric. They had an old-fashioned look ; having, for the most part, been brought up in the household, and grown into keeping with the antiquated mansion, and the humours of its lord ; and most probably looked upon all his whimsical regulations as the established laws of honourable housekeeping.
	When the cloth was removed, the butler