How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 364
CHAPTER XXXI. NEW YEARS AND A LEAP YEAR PARTY. … earliest recollection of NewYears day is of beingawakened at midnight bythe clangor of the firebells, and the ringing ofthe church bells, as theyswung and rocked in theirhigh steeples and cupolas,shouting, Happy NewYear ! from their brazen throats to all the sleeping town. Notbeing thoroughly…
