CHRISTMAS EVE.
My friend proposed t o t no great distance, tered as s of a cloudless sky. ted covering of snoy crystal, and at a distance migransparent vapor stealing up from tening gradually to she landscape.
My companion looked around ransport. quot;en,quot; said ;urning ions! en rees when a boy!
I feel a degree of ?lial reverence for to ting our ivals. o direct and superintend our games rictness t some parents do tudies of ticular t ed old books for precedent and auty for every `merrie disport; yet I assure you try so delig leman to make place in t gifts a parent could besto;
e errupted by troop of dogs of all sorts and sizes, quot;mongrel, puppy, disturbed by ters bell and ttling of the lawn.
quot;`----ttle dogs and all, tray, Blanc, see, t me!quot;
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 ancient, 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, ornamented atue or t of er. tleman, I old, remely careful to preserve te ?nery in all its original state. ly and noble, and be?tting good old family style. ted imitation of Nature in modern gardening ions, but did not suit a monarc; it smacked of tem. I could not troduction of politics into gardening, t I sleman ratolerant in it tance in ion from a member of Parliament wh him.
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