fend rees and formal terraces, wtacked by modern landscape gardeners.

    As s  deal of revelry ted, and even encouraged, by t to ancient usage.  up t cockles, steal te loaf, bob apple, and snap dragon; tmas candle , and tletoe s  peril of all tty housemaids.*

    * tletoe is still c Cmas, and t, plucking eacime a berry from the privilege ceases.

    So intent s upon ts t edly before o receive us, accompanied by  from ty.

    tleman, ly round an open ?orid countenance, in age, like myself, of a previous  or two, migure of whim and benevolence.

    ting ionate; as t permit us to cravelling dresses, but us once to t  brancion, s, comfortable married dames, superannuated spinsters, blooming country cousins, riplings, and bright-eyed boarding-school hoydens.

    t a round game of cards; ot one end of tender and budding age, fully engrossed by a merry game; and a profusion of s, and tattered dolls about traces of a troop of little fairy beings .

    ual greetings o scan tment. I  a  ainly been in old times, and tly endeavored to restore it to somets primitive state. Over ting ?replace ure of a anding by a  one end an enormous pair of antlers ed in to suspend s,  s. ture icles of modern convenience ed, so t ted an odd mixture of parlor and hall.

    te o make  of ood, icular in  in and illumined on a Cmas Eve, according to ancient custom.*

    * t log of imes t of a tree, brougo t ceremony on Cmas Eve, laid in ted  years clog.  lasted t drinking, singing,