ISBN: 9780217584586

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George Laurence Gomme, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books Gentlemans-Magazine-Library-Being-A-Classified-Collection-Of-The-Chief-Contents-Of-The-Gentlemans-Magazine-From-1731-To-1868~~George-Laurence-Gomme General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I have just described, varying somewhat in length and number of characters. [See note 24.! W. S. [1827, Part II., pp. 483-486.] Christmas Festivities In Holmsdale, Surrey, t About a week before Christmas Day it is the annual custom of the native minstrels in Holmsdale to serenade the inhabitants every morning at an early hour: then many a delusive dream is broken by " the concord of sweet sounds." The instrumental harmonists are welcomed from house to house, and hailed as the harbingers of joyous hours to come. I remember with what regularity, in the days of my youth, at this propitious period of the year, "duly as morning rose," the rousing music of the waits burst through the whistling of the wintry wind and startled me from the pillow -- at once dissipating the gloom of darkness, recalling the soul from visionary wanderings, and awakening the animal spirits to an active sense of earthly existence. How can I forgot such mornings as these ! When I peeped through the chamber window externally beautified by the glittering frost-work, there stood the venerable figure of Richard Dove, an established musician of the neighbourhood, fiddling with all his might, his head and foot beating time, while every string exulted aloud in " The Downfall of Paris," and every note tingled in the ear, crying shame to the drowsy sleeper! In the morning of Christmas Day, it is customary to rise at an early hour, and kindle the powerful fire by which the sirloin and the plum- pudding are to be prepared for the festive circle -- and then may be seen the windows, the mantel-pieces, and the well-arranged kitchen shelves, clothed in the green holly with its scarlet terry, while in the hall of the hospitable mansion, in the farm h -<

ISBN: 9780217584586

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