It    moonlig, but extremely cold; our acked ly, and a part of time ;; said my panion, laug;and is eager to arrive in time for some of t and good cs    knoed devotee of tality. olerable spe of    s purity, try gentleman; for our men of fortune spend so mucime in tory, t trong ricies of a rural life are almost polisook    Peacextbook, instead of Cer?eld; ermined in    tion more truly    of a try gentleman on ernal lands, and time on ate. renuous advocate for ters, a and modern, ed on t. Indeed, e range of reading is among t least turies since, e and t more like true Engliss sometimes t    been born a feuries earlier, oms. As    some distance from t of try,    any rival gentry near    most enviable of all blessings to an Englisunity of indulging t of    molestation. Being representative of t family in t part of try beis, o, and in general is knoion of `title ime immemorial. I t best to give you ts about my o prepare you for any etricities t mig;

        * Peace Gentleman, 1622.

        e ime along t lengtopped at te. It yle, of iron bars fancifully op into ?ouris supported te ed by t. Close adjoining ers lodge, sered under dark ?r trees     and almost buried in shrubbery.

        tb a large porters bell, y air, and ant barking of dogs, ely appeared at te. As t fell strongly upon tle primitive dame, dressed very mucique taste,    keraess. Sseying fort seeing er.    seemed,    tmas Eve in ts    do        a song and story in the household.

        My friend proposed t o t no great distaered as s of a cloudless sky. ted    c of snoy crystal, and at a distance migransparent vapor stealing up from tening gradually to she landscape.

        My panion looked around ransport. "en," said ;urning ions! en rees when a boy!

        I feel a degree of ?lial reverence for to ting our ivals. o dired superintend ames riess t some parents do tudies of ticular t ed old books for pret and auty for every `merrie disport; yet I assure you try so delig leman to make     pla t gifts a parent could besto;

        e errupted by troop of dogs of all sorts and sizes, "mongrel, puppy,    disturbed by ters bell and ttling of the lawn.

        "`----ttle dogs and all,     tray, Blanc, see, t me!"

        cried Bracebridge, laug to a yelp of delig    overpohful animals.

        e ly tly lit up by t ude, and seemed to be of tecture of different periods. One ly very a, one-sed boting out and overrun tered    of taste of Cime, ered, as my friend told me, by one of ors    monarc toration. t t in ti?cial ?orades, ored atue or t of er. tleman, I old, remely careful to preserve te ?nery in all its inal state.    ly and noble, aing good old family style. ted imitation of Nature in mardening ions, but did not suit a monarc; it smacked of tem. I could not    trodu of politito gardening, t I sleman ratolerant in    it    tan ion from a member of Parliament wh him.

        t to defend rees and formal terraces, wtacked by modern landscape gardeners.

        As s    deal of revelry ted, and even enced, by t to a usage.    up t cockles, steal te loaf, bob apple, and snap dragon; tmas dle , and tletoe s    peril of all tty housemaids.*

        * tletoe is still c Cmas, and t, plug eacime a berry from the privilege ceases.

        So i s upon ts t edly before o receive us, apanied by    from ty.

        tleman, ly round an open ?orid tenance, in age, like myself, of a previous    or two, migure of whim and benevolence.

        ting ionate; as t permit us to cravelling dresses, but us oo t    bran, s, fortable married dames, superannuated spinsters, blooming try cousins, riplings, and bright-eyed b-school hoydens.

        t a round game of cards; ot one end of tender and budding age, fully engrossed by a merry game; and a profusion of s, and tattered dolls about traces of a troop of little fairy beings .

        ual greetings o s tment. I    a    ainly been in old times, and tly endeavored to restore it to somets primitive state. Over ting ?replace ure of a anding by a    one end an enormous pair of antlers ed in to suspend s,    s. ture icles of modern venience ed, so t ted an odd mixture of parlor and hall.

        te o make    of ood, icular in    in and illumined on a Cmas Eve, acc to a .*

        * t log of imes t of a tree, brougo t ceremony on Cmas Eve, laid in ted    years clog.    lasted t drinking, singing, and telling of tales. Sometimes it    in ttages t    o burn all nig    out, it was sidered a sign of ill luck.

        ions it in one of his songs:

        till burnt in many farm-cicularly in titions ected    among try. If a squinting person e to t is burning, or a person barefooted, it is sidered an ill omen. t ao lig years Cmas ?re.

        It ed in ary elboo every . Even t lay stretc , as ed ion and ya tretco sleep, ?dent of kindness and prote. tion from t in genuine ality    is immediately felt and puts tra o    beeed many minutes by table    he family.

        Supper er our arrival. It s decorated omed lig apers, called Cmas dles,    amoable ly spread antial fare; but ty, a dis cakes boiled in milk anding disimes for Cmas Eve. I inue of t and, ?nding o be perfectly ort I need not be asion, I greeted    an old and very genteel acquaintance.

        tly promoted by tric personage ion of Master Simon. igtle man,    old bac; ly pitted ual bloom on it, like a frostbitten leaf in autumn.    quiess and vivacity,    ible. ly t of te merriment by unately, my ignorance of t permit me to enjoy. It seemed to be    deligo keep a young girl o inual agony of sti?ed lauge of    opposite. Indeed,    of t everyt every turn of enance. I could not    it; for    s in tate Punce of a burnt cork and pocket- an e into sucure t to die h laughing.

        I    brie?y into ory by Frank Bracebridge.    ine,    for all s. em like a vagrant et in its orbit, sometimes visiting one brancimes anote remote, as is often tlemen of extensive es and small fortunes in England.    disposition, al moment; and    ced y, unaodating s ably ce family cory, and intermarriages of t favorite ed spinsters, among er of t t a more popular being in te years    entirely o um, and o old times and by o suit every occasion. e ly a spe of -mentioalent, for no sooner o troduced, ter Simon    ing t it ran occasionally into a falsetto like tes of a split reed,    old ditty:

        As    ther, &c.

        to gayety, and an old s rumming all to all appearanf old, of tablis, and, tensibly a resident of teo be found in tcleman being fond of t;;

        t dances after supper, , and tner    every Cmas for nearly ury. Master Simon, ing liimes and to be tle antiquated in taste of s, evidently piqued o gai by tadoon, and ot sc ed tle romping girl from b-scy kept inually oced all tempts at elegance: suced maten are unfortunately prone.

        trary,    one of s, on y: ical jokes, and    o tease s and cousins, yet, like all madcap youngsters, e among t iing couple in tiful bluseen. From several siced ile kindness gro to captivate a romantic girl. all, slender, and    young Britise years, s on ti: alk Frencalian, draolerably, dance divinely, but, above all,    aterloo.    girl of seventeen, ry and romance, could resist su?

        t t up a guitar, and, lolling     against ttitude    udied, began ttle Frencroubadour. t mas Eve but good old Englisrel, casting up    as if in an effort of memory, struto anotrain, and ry gave ;Nigo Julia:"

        Sio affrighee,

        t    ended in pliment to tner    kept    upon t is true, iful blusle    all t less caused by t he ?oor.

        ty no ed old    of so my cill sent fort not been t;no spirit dares stir abroad," I sempted to steal from my room at midnig not be at t th.

        My c of ture of s. tesque faces rangely intermingled, and a roraits stared mournfully at me from t faded damask, y tester, and stood in a nice a boo bed o break fort beloened, and found it proceeded from a band s from some neig round tains to inctly. t of t; partially ligiquated apartment. t and aerial, and seemed to accord    and moonligened and listeender ae, and, as the pillow and I fell asleep.
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