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... wish to lay it. Their faithful Friend and Servant, C. D. December, 1843. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. STA VE ONE. MARLEY’S GHOST M ARLEY was dead: to begin wi... ...ith him; he iced his office in the dog days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas. External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warm... ... 4 A CRISTMAS CAROL Once upon a time — of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve — old Scrooge sat busy in his counting house. It was cold, ... ...n which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed. “A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice... ...ace was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again. “Christmas a humbug, uncle!” said Scrooge’s nephew. “You don’t mean that, ... ...oge’s nephew. “You don’t mean that, I am sure.” “I do,” said Scrooge. “Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be me... ...be,” returned the uncle, “when I live in such a world of fools as this Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas. What’s Christmas time to MARLEY’S G... ... my will,” said Scrooge indignantly, “every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried... ...!” “Uncle!” pleaded the nephew. “Nephew!” returned the uncle, sternly, “keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.” “Keep it!” repeat...

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...ng Time 26 9) I’ll Get By 29 10) To D.D. 31 Songs continued- Page 11) I Was Born In Summer 33 12) I Knew A Girl 36 13) A Look At Christmas 39 14) Poem- Song For Darkness 41 15) Early Thought 42 16) Walkin’ To San Francisco 43 17) Where Are You Now? 46 18) Still Wondrin’ Why 48 19) Poem- To Claire 50 20) It’s April 52 21) Road To Fre...

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....118 CHAPTER X - LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART............................................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRISTMAS SERMON.........140...

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...CAREER OF ART............................................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRISTMAS SERMON.........140 4 Across the Plains whom I take to have bee... ... strives with unconquerable constancy: Surely not all in vain. CHAPTER XII A CHRISTMAS SERMON BY THE TIME THIS PAPER appears, I shall have been talkin... ...on will be satisfied, and there need be no despair for the despairer. II BUT CHRISTMAS IS NOT only the mile-mark of another year, moving us to thought...

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...ime draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Four voi... ...exes household peace, And chains regret to his decease, How dare we keep our Christmas eve; Which brings no more a welcome guest 5 To enrich the thres... ...ll die. XXX. 31 XXX. WITH trembling fingers did we weave The holly round the Christmas hearth; A rainy cloud possess’d the earth, And sadly fell our C... ...e, 15 To utter love more sweet than praise. 80 In Memoriam LXXVII. AGAIN at Christmas did we weave The holly round the Christmas hearth; The silent s... ...e Christmas hearth; The silent snow possess’d the earth, And calmly fell our Christmas eve: The yule clog sparkled keen with frost, 5 No wing of wind ... ...his holly stand: We live within the stranger’s land, And strangely falls our Christmas eve. Our father’s dust is left alone 5 And silent under other s...

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... which ushered in the most momentous period of Miss Chancellor’s life. About Christmas a step was taken which advanced her affairs immensely, and put ... ...by sending him a message through her sister, or even a book, a photograph, a Christmas card, or a newspaper, by the post. He felt, in a word, not at l...

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...t in such things as admit no uncertaintie; as to promise extreame heat at Christmas, and exceeding cold at Midsomer. The like I thinke of these poli... ... at Mid-Sommer to put-on your furr'd Gowne, because you shall neede it at Christmas? Cast your selves into the experience of all the mischiefes that...

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...h Solar System Chapter 11: Saskia’s Awakening Chapter 12: Julie the Sweep Chapter 13: The Unbearable Melancholia of Sprouts Chapter 14: Christmas in Paris Chapter 15: Another Letter from the Coalfields Chapter 16: The Scholar Who Wouldn’t Eat Chapter 17: The Eyes of Alfred Célerie Chapter 18: Pablo and the Fish Chapter 19: The Corned-Beef Thief Ch...

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...ce, I know that I am not the giver; I am just a channel. On the day after Christmas in 2004, a powerful earthquake in Sumatra at the northern tip of...

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...he had not signed his book, or made a covenant with him, but at the then coming Christmas, she was to be ready for a high frolic and then all was to...

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...ause to sing? 113 Why should I ioy in any abortiue birth? 114 At Christmas I no more desire a Rose, 115 Then wish a Snow in Mayes new f... ...t, 2400 Knowing aforehand of our merriment, 2401 To dash it like a Christmas Comedie. 2402 Some carry- tale, some please- man, some slight...

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...rs on Easter Monday were merely a nervous gust, to help show she was not a Christmas doll from the Burlington Arcade; and there was no lifting up of t...

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... Beg. Marrie I will let them play, it is not a Comon-tie, 292 a Christmas gambold, or a tumbling tricke? 293 Lady. No my good Lord...

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... on your furred gown at Midsummer, because you will stand in need of it at Christmas! Throw yourselves, say they, into 304 Essays: Book III the exper...

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...lad of the freshnesse, and coolenes of a Vault, but does any man keepe his Christmas there; or are the pleasures of the Spring acceptable in Autumne? ...

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...5: Creole Corn Stew, Cajun Macque Choux Chapter 6: 1718 Style Red Beans and Rice Chapter 7: Frére Gerard discovers the “Paccan” Chapter 8: Christmas with the Ursulines, 1738 Chapter 9, Grillades and Grits Chapter 10: River Shrimp at Lent, 1735 Chapter 11: Some Calas in the French Market Chapter 12: A Boucan for Pentecost Chapter 13: The Houma...

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...he & Ecstasy Letter 33 Charlie Brown 35 Say It 36 Another Letter 37 Just a Little Badass 38 A Conniving Bastard 39 You Me Learning to be Us 40 Christmas 40 The Clock Strikes Down 42 Brain Drain 43 Moaning my Name 44 Manic 46 The Edge of the Pool 89 Domesticated 91 Don't Give the Girl Jager Shirt 93 Dead Mice 93 Million Dollars/Someone Forgot 95 Victory is ...

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...ng Tip 24: Cut small unnecessary purchases Tip 25: Utilize free resources at your library Tip 26: Free or cheap hobbies Tip 27: Get an artificial Christmas tree Tip 28: Plan meals, shop with coupons Tip 29: Drop newspapers and magazines Tip 30: Staycation instead of vacation Tip 31: Stop buying lottery tickets Tip 32: Stop smoking Tip 33: Take shorter showers Ti...

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...ing, in those war times, to live in a rollicking fashion, and keep a jolly Christmas, Whitsun and Easter tide. It was fifteen years since Silas Marner ... ...ng thread, that cuts a groove for itself in the barren sand. But about the Christmas of that fifteenth year, a second great change came over Marner’s l... ...There’s a conspiracy to turn me out o’ the choir, as I shouldn’t share the Christmas money — that’s where it is. But I shall speak to Mr. Crackenthorp... ... to declare, as sure as ever she meant to take the sacrament the very next Christmas that was ever coming, that she had seen big ear rings, in the sha... ...rable tankards, would not have been suppressed as of unsound tendency. But Christmas puddings, brawn, and abundance of spirituous liquors, throwing th... .... This change to a kindlier feeling was shown in various ways. The odor of Christmas cooking being on the wind, it was the season when superfluous pork... ...he sacrament at one of the great festivals: Squire Cass himself took it on Christmas day; while those who were held to be “good livers” went to church... ...s you can’t know your 68 SILAS MARNER dinner from Saturday. But now, upo’ Christmas day, this blessed Christmas as is ever coming, if you was to take... ...t a voice like a bird — you wouldn’t think,” Dolly went on; “he can sing a Christmas carril as his father’s taught him; and I take it for a token as h...

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...le 7 I HAD called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the compliments of the sea... ...as an intellectual problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I have n... ... moment in front of Peterson’s fire. The facts are these: about four o’clock on Christmas morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow,... ...e spoils of victory in the shape of this battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose.” “Which surely he restored to their owner?” “My dear f... ...” “What, then, did Peterson do?” “He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, knowing that even the smallest problems are of inter... ...oose, while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who lost his Christmas dinner.” “Did he not advertise?” “No.” “Then, what clue could... ... consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the rest is familiar to you. I ... ...er had told me some weeks before that I might have the pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she was always as good as her word. ... ...h that bird, Jem?’ says she. “ ‘Well,’ said I, ‘you said you’d give me one for Christmas, and I was feeling which was the fattest.’ “ ‘Oh,’ says she, ...

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...e birds have any cause to sing? Why should I joy in any abortive birth? At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May’s new fangled m... ...: here was a consent, Knowing aforehand of our merriment, To dash it like a Christmas comedy: Some carry tale, some please man, some slight zany, Som...

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...wn sphere. I will explain this seeming paradox of mine. Take the case of a Christmas Pantomime. Surely nobody supposes that the young mother in the pi... ... FOR PRINT. What working man, that never labours less (some Mondays, and Christmas Time and Easter Time excepted) than twelve or fourteen hours a da... ...and on, completing an Invention and perfecting it. I perfected of it, last Christmas Eve at ten o’clock at night. Me and my wife stood and let some te... ... aforesaid purpose. Now, to my Model again. There it was, perfected of, on Christmas Eve, gone nigh a year, at ten o’clock at night. All the money I c... ...t, a perfected Model as aforesaid. William Butcher and me had a long talk, Christmas Day, respecting of the Model. William is very sensible. But some ... ...me back. I am a good workman. Not a Teetotaller; but never drunk. When the Christmas holidays were over, I went up to London by the Parliamentary T ra... ...er vacations he used to take pedestrian excursions with a knapsack; and at Christmas time, he went to see his father at Chipping Norton, who we all sa...

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...ute, has kept for me the fascination of youth- ful romance. The very first Christmas night I ever spent away from land was employed in running be- for...

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...int of having it on the 11th. The Fussells would have pre- ferred it after Christmas, but they were very nice about it. There is Dolly’s photograph—in... ...eady. The crisis opened with a message: Would Miss Schlegel come shopping? Christmas was nearing, and Mrs. Wilcox felt behindhand with the presents. S... ...ft, though. In fact, I’d rather not.” “Why?” “Because I’ve odd ideas about Christmas. Because I have all that money can buy. I want more people, but n... ...heir usual exhortation against temperance reform, invited men to “Join our Christmas goose club”—one bottle of gin, etc., or two, according to subscri... ...two, according to subscription. A poster of a woman in tights heralded the Christmas pantomime, and little red devils, who had come in again that year... ...ittle red devils, who had come in again that year, were prevalent upon the Christmas-cards. Margaret was no morbid ideal- ist. She did not wish this s... ...that ever hints at a personal- ity beyond our daily vision. “No, I do like Christmas on the whole,” she an- nounced. “In its clumsy way, it does appro... ...ill. But oh, it is clumsier every year.” “Is it? I am only used to country Christmases.” “We are usually in London, and play the game with vigour—caro... ...at the Abbey, clumsy midday meal, clumsy dinner for the maids, followed by Christmas- tree and dancing of poor children, with songs from Helen. The dr...

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...ated News pictures, at all the pic- tures in the book-shop windows at this Christmas sea- son, as oldsters, we feel a certain pang of envy against the... ...ook and look again at the designs. May we have more of them; more pleasant Christmas volumes, over which we and our children can laugh together. Can ...

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...er for 18 months before I went up to Dublin to study. When I went home for Christmas and Easter, she was there: I suppose it used to be something of a...

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...Don’t worry,” he said. “I forgive you. I have to admit, I saw fireworks the second I laid eyes on you. It was so adorable how your face lit up like a Christmas tree.” She slapped his arm. “I’m afraid you mistook that reaction. It was fright.” He smiled at her as he snaked his arms around her. “More like awe.” Oh, he has some nerve, this one. “Listen, I don’t need you b...

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...hen been entirely kept away from him, 137 The Chaplet of Pearls and about Christmas he brightened so much, and awoke to things about him so much more... ...with lip and eye to thank his stepfather for his cheery wishes of ‘a merry Christmas, at least one better in health.’ ‘I did not bring the little wenc... ... and bullet-wounds. Dame Annora prattled on, ‘But they have sent you their Christmas gifts by me. Poor chil- dren, they have long been busied with the... ... Cecily said it was because the eyes of discretion were lacking.’ ‘Oh, the Christmas feast was far grander,’ said Bessie. ‘Then Lucy had her first sat... ...as it to seek us or Eustacie?’ ‘Both, both, my lad. One morning just after Christmas, I rid over to Combe with my dame behind me, and found the house ...

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...em!” Then we have long details of the Weinlesen (Vintage), the Harvest Home, Christmas, and so forth; with a whole cycle of the Entepfuhl Children’s g... ...Winter brought its skating matches and shooting matches, its snow storms and Christmas carols,—did the Child sit and learn. These things were the Alph...

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...ved in joy and laughed into the face of Death. VII Her Friends Bring her a Christmas Tree Ppardon, great enemy, Without an angry thought We’ve carried...

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... Brandt’s death brings reflection and a reunion with Ellen 268. Steward tries writing Kris but Mary is more substantial and loyal 269. At Minnesota Christmas, Steward finds subtle changes from the past 270. Changes in old friends lead Steward to make changes, too 271. O’Rourke heads for Khe Sanh, meets his CO Art Steward 272. No action in Dewey Canyon, but O’Rourke he...

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...ll account) under the articles of – Child-bed. Abortive and Still-born. Christmas and Infants. T ake the weeks in which the plague was most violent... ...it that the plague would not return. The Court, indeed, came up soon after Christmas, but the nobility and gentry, except such as depended upon and ha...

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...ood’s own decree that they were brought to a conclusion. It happened about Christmas-time, Harry Esmond being now past sixteen years of age, that his ... ...de her donation annual, and received Esmond at her house near London every Christmas; but, in spite of these benefactions, Esmond was constantly poor;... ...ll see if we can get on to the new year without a fight. Have some of this Christmas pie. And here comes the tankard; no, it’s Pincot with the tea.” “... ...d in a hurry to undeceive her, when the good young fellow was gone for his Christmas holiday. It was as pleasant to Esmond on his couch to watch the y...

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... SIXTEENTH Brent Heimbach 10 Best of Four O N D ECEMBER TWENTY-FOURTH, Christmas Eve, my family begins the holiday celebration by preparing f... ...m, which literally means “House of Bread.” The breaking and sharing of the Christmas bread is our way of showing best wishes to family and friends acc... ...and Italian. When we are finished with our dinner. My family decorates the Christmas tree. The decorations for the tree have been collected over the y... ...er and I made it out of a thimble. This is one of my favorite things about Christmas. I love having my family around, sharing memories. We also use th... .... Michael’s church to attend mass. When mass is ended we go home, and sing Christmas carols. My grandmother plays the piano, and my mother, aunts, sis... ... My grandmother plays the piano, and my mother, aunts, sisters, and I sing Christmas carols. While we are singing my father and brother and uncles pla... ...uncles play cards in the kitchen. Then we go to bed, waiting anxiously for Christmas day . Christmas morning we wake up bright and early to open prese...

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...se. The canine conscience did not solve the problem with a pound of tea at Christmas. No longer content to pay a flying visit, it was the whole foreno...

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...onne ring out the Angelus while he was finishing his Small T esta- ment at Christmastide in 1546. Towards this benefactor he usually gets credit for a... ... this last have furnished us with the matter of a grisly winter’s tale? At Christmas-time in 1456, readers of Villon will remem- ber that he was engag...