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Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of
by Washington Irving
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Title: Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
Author: Washington Irving
Illustrator: R. Caldecott
Release Date: February 24, 2007 [EBook #20656]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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OLD CHRISTMAS
WASHINGTON IRVING
[Illustration: CHRISTMAS]
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FIFTH EDITION
[Illustration: "The old family mansion, partly thrown in deep shadow, and partly lit up by the cold moonshine"
--Frontispiece.]
[Illustration: OLD CHRISTMAS:
FROM THE Sketch Book of Washington Irving.
ILLUSTRATED BY R CALDECOTT
London. Macmillan & Co 1886]
[Illustration]
But is old, old, good old Christmas gone? Nothing but the hair of his good, gray, old head and beard left? Well, I will have that, seeing that I cannot have more of him.
Hue and Cry after Christmas.
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