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Article : 121 words"The old custom of carol-singing seems to have died right out," said the old-fashioned man bitterly. "I suppose it didn't pay--nothing that doesn't ...
Article : 141 wordsTwelfth Day celebrations are passing out of vogue. The brief note in our pocket diaries, "Epiphany," carries very little significance to-day. ...
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Article : 161 wordsIn many parts of the nor[?] of England Yule doughs are still made and given away by some bakers. These little dough cakes, which are plentifully ...
Article : 212 wordsThe Christmas [?] were doing their best to create discord in the neighbourhood, when a stranger came up to the leader and said, "Come ...
Article : 143 wordsFolk-lore reveals the fact that blind man's bluff has a much more serious origin than its usual hilarity would suggest (says the "Sunday at Home"). ...
Article : 311 wordsIf there came a horseman. Clad in shining mall, I would give him good cheer, I would give him ale; ...
Article : 128 wordsNo book of Dickens did more to ensure his popularity than his "Christmas Carol''; no book did more to reveal that "touch of nature which makes ...
Article : 267 wordsSing, sing with me a Christmas song In happy Christmas hours-- Christmas hours! Of Christmas bush, and Christmas ...
Article : 173 wordsMr. Stingee was rather proud of his own particular method of dealing with his numerous Christmas callers, until the following incident occurred. ...
Article : 147 wordsChristmas cards, which owing to cheaper postage appear likely this year to gain some of their lost popularity, states the "Daily Chronicle," ...
Article : 152 words"Kissing under the mistletoe" has the distinction of being the only Christmas custom which can claim an all-British origin, every other popular ...
Article : 107 wordsIt is not generally known that the birth-place of Christianity is the centre of a mother-of-pearl Industry which supplies heads, rosaries ...
Article : 248 wordsHave a heart, make a start! Buy your Christmas presents every one. If you wait, till loo late. ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Sat 22 Dec 1923, Page 13
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