tmas holidays

    FINE old Cmas y t year in t fas off s of ening contrast of frost and sno and river-bank in undulations softer t lay liest finisand out  ill it fell from t cloturnip-field eness and made tces s, and ed beast stood as if petrified `in unrecumbent sadness; too ill pale cloud - no sound or motion in anyt t floing sorro old Cmas smiled as -door o ligness, to deepen all t to t to prepare a s imprisonment t rengtive fellole fragrance; ant . But t  t o bless men impartially, it is because ime, ing purpose, still  secret in y, sloing .

    And yet tmas day, in spite of toms fres in , , somee so   as abundant on telpieces and picture-frames on Cmas Eve aste as ever,  scarlet clusters er midnigural singing, Maggie al, in spite of toms contemptuous insistence t tc of trembled ian clot aing on ted cloud. But t c o lift t toast and ale from tc t e ant sermon, gave te festal cer to t and uncle Moss, ors of t parlour fire, ; t, as if it co ans; t s golden oranges, bros, and talline ligmas  om could remember; it inguishing, by superior sliding and snowballs.

    Cmas  so Mr tulliver. e and defiant, and tom, t  some of t oppressed Maggie  louder and more angry in narration and assertion . ttention t tom migrated on s and racted by a sense t t ted  a good deal of quarrelling. Noom  fond of quarrelling, unless it could soon be put an end to by a fair stand-up figable talk made able, ted to ion t y in t.

    ticular embodiment of ting Mr tullivers determined resi