I oilet, and ering ant t up old s in kitcruck upon ts to carry in ts.

        Just in thrice,

        t mas ba. A blazing crag ?re of logs o ment, and t sparkling and hed ey.

        t picture of te ed    and e     doubts about ticity of ting and armor as o tainly amp of more ret days; but I old t ting ime out of mind; and t as to t ed to its present situation by t oermi to be te auty on all su ter o current acceptation. A sideboard    out just urope t mig least in variety) emple: "?agons, s, cups, beakers, goblets, basins, aensils of good panioions of jovial ood tars of t magnitude; ots ributed in branctered like a ?rmament of silver.

        e ing se relsy, ted on a stool beside t    deal more pomas board display a moodly and gracious assemblage of te    least udying as a colle of raits or Albert Durers prints. tiquarian lore to be acquired, mucimes. Per may be from inually before traits, ry are stocked; certain it is t t features of antiquity are often most faituated in t lines, and I raced an old family ure-gallery, legitimately ion to geion almost from time of t. Someto be observed in tly inated in a Gotions; and ttle girl in particular, of staid demeanor, ique vinegar aspect, e of terpart of one of ors w of henry VIII.

        t a s familiar one, suco ty in t a long, courtly,    school.

        ted, ered tle:

        tended by a servant on ead bore a silver dised s mout formality at table. t t made its appeararuck up a ?ouris t from t ic gravity, an old carol, t verse of which was as follows

        to ness many of ttle etricities, from being apprised of t, yet I fess troduced someil I gation of t it    to represent trelsy and song at great tables on Cmas Day. "I like tom," said t;not merely because it is stately and pleasing in itself, but because it    t Oxford at    brings to mind time s l about in t;

        t ed by sus, aiment, objected to t from t sung at college.    on, ator, to give tations, addressing    ?rst to t large; but, ?nding ttention gradually diverted to otalk and ots, one as ors diminisil o a fat-lema ly engaged in teful of turkey.*

        * tmas Day is still observed in t may be acceptable to sucters, I give it entire:

        Bodeckd able erally loaded ed aome of try abundan tinguis ted to "a sirloin,"

        as miermed it, being, as ;tandard of old Englisality, and a joint of goodly presence, and full of expectation." tly decorated, and raditional in ts, but about o appear overcurious, I asked no questions.

        I could not,    notice a pie magly decorated ation of tail of t bird,    of table. ttle ation, ainly t autical; but tality among t    prevail upon o have one killed.*

        * tly i demand for stately eais. Sometimes it o a pie, at one end of s plumage, ; at tail was displayed.

        Suc ts of cs-errant pledged to uake any perilous enterprise, ice S;by cod pie."

        tant dismas feast; and Massinger, in ;City Madam," gives some idea ance imes:

        Men may talk of try Cmasses, ty pound butterd eggs, tos drenake sauce for a single peacock!

        It edious, pero my o o mention ts or t, by    a s of antiquity. I    so ives; o t of ts, less bee at many a reoo, at ty ler and ots executed ties assigric. t part, been brougo keeping iquated mansion and ts lord, and most probably looked upon all ions as tablished laws of honorable housekeeping.

        ler brougs appearance mas festivity. tents    ure of    oo abstruse and plex for t. It ation, i mig of a toper leap    and raciest ed apples bobbing about the surface.*

        * times posed of ale instead of meg, sugar, toast, ginger, and roasted crabs; in t-broill prepared in some old families and round tantial farmers at Cmas. It is also called Lambs ool, and is celebrated by ;t":

        tlemans    as irred ty boo y o     all present,    it brimming round to folloive style, pronoung it "t fountain of good feeling,    toget;+ + "tom of drinking out of to eaceo to cry times, assel, assel, assel, and to ans;--Archoeologia.

        t emblem of Cmas joviality circulated and    reacer Simon,    in botruck up an old assail son:

        * From Poor Robins Almanack.

        Mu during diurned upon family topics, to    deal of rallying of Master Simon about some gay ation. ttack    it i t-lemay of a sl game, are unrivalled for talents in ing it do every pause in ti iy mucerms, er Simon ter, indeed, seemed fond of being teased on t, as old bac to be, and ook occasion to inform me, in an uo tion rodigiously ?ne woman and drove her own curricle.

        time passe a y, and, ts time    and revel, yet I doubt nessed more    and genuine enjoyment.    is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around ruly is a kind    a fountain of gladness, making everyts viity to freso smiles! tion of tly tagious; o make all ttle etricities of    season, in a maness of hropy.

        ired, tion, as usual, became still more animated; many good t of during dinner, but ly do for a ladys ear; and, t positively af?rm t t uttered, yet I ais of rare    produce mucer. it, after all, is a migart, pu ingredient, and mucoo acid for some stomac    good-ing, and to t .

        told several long stories of early college pranks and adventures, in some of ter it required some effort of imagination to ?gure suctle dark anatomy of a man into trator of a madcap gambol. Iures of    lots in life. t ty to live lustily on ernal domains in t of prosperity and sunso a y and ?orid old age; rary, y tomes in tudy. Still, to be a spark of almost extinguistom of ed at a sly story of tty milkmaid leman made an "alp of faces," leman t took absolute offe ted gallantries of h.

        I found tide of    gaining on t. ter Simon alk maudlin about t t black-letter itled Cupids Solicitor for Love, taining store of good advice for baco le verse o effect.

         make h shine;

         not stand h her, shall I, shall I,

        But boldly say, ido be mine.

        t-leman, s to tell a ratory out of Joe Miller t    to t u ting tter part excepting oo, began to ss of good ctled doo a doze and ting most suspiciously on one side. Just at ture o t, at te instigation of mine , empered h a proper love of de.

        After table o ted to all kind of noisy mirter Simon, made its old    as t romping games. I delignessing ticularly at t ealing out of ter. I found t ter Simon,    a pote of ttle beings     Falstaff, pinc ts of , and tig raws.

        One ?ne blue-eyed girl of about teen, iful fusion, orn off e picture of a romp, ormentor; and, from ter Simon avoided ttle nympo jump sed t a .

        * At Cmasse ter of merie disportes, and tuall or temporall.--StO.

        uro ted round tening to ti?cer of yore, icular aodation. From ture,    strange ats of titions and legends of try, ed in tiquarian researco t tleman inctured ition, as men are very apt to be ered part of try and pore over black-letter tracts, so often ?lled ural. es of try ing tomb by tar. As it    of t part of try, it ition by t o get up from tomb and ormy nigicularly tage bordered on t t    some reasure    t in a state of trouble alessness. Some talked of gold and jeomb, over        cory current of a sexton in old times    nig just as    received a violent bloretc. tales en laug by some of turdier among tics, yet outest unbelievers t pat led across the churchyard.

        From tes t folloo be te -stories t ty. ure, s to ural about it; for t in    of t till ?xed on you. ters oo, at t up in t gossip among ts, af?rmed t in en    on Midsummer Eve, o mount ure, ride about to to visit tomb; on self; not t , for es, and even stone    park gate, making    of paper.

        All titions I found enanced by t superstitious eo every goblin tale of te gravity, and ers    for the marvellous.

        reader of old legends and romances, and often lame    believe in titious person, , must live in a kind of fairy-land.

        tention to tories, our ears    eneous sounds from trelsy er. train came trooping into t mig aken for t of Faery. t iigable spirit, Master Simon, in ties as lord of misrule, mas mummery or masking; and o a s, t into instant effect. ted; tique cloto yield up t    seen t for several geions; t of tely vened from t into a burlesque imitation of an antique mask.*

        * Maskings or mummeries e sports at Cmas in old times, and t en laid under tribution to furnisastic disguisings. I strongly suspect Master Simon to aken t;Masque of Cmas."

        Master Simo;A Cmas," quaintly apparelled in a ruff, a s cloak, ticoats, and a    t migeeple, and must indubitably ers. From u-bitten bloom t seemed trop. ;Dame Mince Pie," in tomad ing dress of Kendal green and a fing cap assel.

        tume, to be sure, did not bear testimony to deep researc eye to turesque, natural to a young gallant in tress. tty rustic dress as "Maid Marian." t of train amorprussed up in t belles of triplings bes, tomed o represent ter of Roast Beef, Plum Pudding, and oted in a maskings.

        trol of te isrule; and I observed t .

        tion of tley cre of drum, acc to a , ion of uproar and merriment.

        Master Simon covered ateliness    Cmas,     ers, umes seemed as traits o join in t. Differeuries    cross    a; tting pirouettes and rigadoons; and tions.

        templated tastic sports and tion of . ood ding t tter    autically on t and stately dance of t to be derived.* For my part, I inual excitement from t gayety passing before me. It o see y breaking out from among ter, and old age tc. I felt also an i in tion t ting s ing fast into oblivion, and t till punctiliously observed. tness, too, mingled    gave it a peculiar zest: it ed to time and place; and as t reeled    seemed ecy of loed years.+ * Sir Jo;It is a grave and majestice; t aly lemen dressed les, and by trains, tion ;--ory of Music.

        + At time of t publication of ture of an old-fasmas in try    of date. terunity of nessing almost all toms above described, existing in ued vigor in ts of Derbvsmas ice of t of    Neead Abbey.

        But enougmas and its gambols; it is time for me to pause in ty. Metions asked by my graver readers, "to o be made alk?" Alas! is t    for tru of the world?

        And if not, are t ts improvement? It is so mucer to please to instruct--to play tor.

        , after all, is te of    I could to t my sagest deduay be safe guides for t in ing to amuse, if I fail tment. If,    one    of one moment of sorrorate t a benevolent vieteirely in vain.
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