Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 329
e editor put this in an earlier numberof St. Nicholas ? and the old folks may think, Dear,dear! How timely this is ! How pleasant to read italmost while the Christmas bells are ringing! But oneand all soon will forget, in the enjoyment of glowingwords, that time has fled, or that time is coming.… … In the course of a De-cember tour in York-shire, I rode for along distance in oneof the publiccoaches, onthe day pre-ceding Christ-mas. The coachwas crowded, both insideand out, with passengers,who, by their talk, seemedprincipally bound to themansions of relations orfriends, to eat the Christ-mas…
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