Charles Dickens

Name: Our American Holidays - Christmas
Author: Charles Dickens

Our American Holidays - Christmas (1949)

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“Our American Holidays - Christmas”, published in 1949, is a work by Charles Dickens. It explores elements such as Cratchit, Fezziwig and mistletoe.

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Charles Dickens, Our American Holidays - Christmas (1949)

“ When they were all tired of blind-man's buff, there was a great game at snapdragon, and when fingers enough were burned with that, and all the raisons gone, they sat down by the huge fire of blazing logs to a substantial supper, and a mighty bowl of wassail, something smaller than an ordinary washhouse copper, in which the hot apples were hissing and bubbling with a rich look, and a jolly sound, that were perfectly irresistible.
"This," said Mr. Pickwick, looking round him, "this is, indeed, comfort." ”

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Charles Dickens, Our American Holidays - Christmas (1949)

“ How many families whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then re-united, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual good-will, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight, and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future state of existence, provided for the blest and happy! ”

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Charles Dickens, Our American Holidays - Christmas (1949)

“ Every movable was packed off, as if it were dismissed from public life forevermore; the floor was swept and watered, the lamps were trimmed, fuel was heaped upon the fire; and the warehouse was as snug, and warm, and dry, and bright a ball-room as you would desire to see upon a winter's night. ”

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Charles Dickens, Our American Holidays - Christmas (1949)

“ When he's dimmed by a cloud I can laugh aloud,
And care not how sulky he be;
For his darling child is the madness wild
That sports in fierce fever's train;
And when love is too strong, it don't last long,
As many have found to their pain. ”

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Charles Dickens, Our American Holidays - Christmas (1949)

“ Pickwick, blinded shortly afterwards with a silk-handkerchief, falling up against the wall, and scrambling into corners, and going through all the mysteries of blind-man's buff, with the utmost relish of the game, until at last he caught one of the poor relations; and then had to evade the blind-man himself, which he did with a nimbleness and agility that elicited the admiration and applause of all beholders. The poor relations caught just the people whom they thought would like it ”

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Charles Dickens, Our American Holidays - Christmas (1949)

“ Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days, that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fireside and his quiet home! ”

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Charles Dickens, Our American Holidays - Christmas (1949)

“ At last the dinner was all done, the cloth was cleared, the hearth swept, and the fire made up. The compound in the jug being tasted and considered perfect, apples and oranges were put upon the table, and a shovelful of chestnuts on the fire. ”

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Charles Dickens, Our American Holidays - Christmas (1949)

“ You might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course; and in truth, it was something like it in that house. Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot ”

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Charles Dickens, Our American Holidays - Christmas (1949)

“ Then old Fezziwig stood out to dance with Mrs. Fezziwig. Top couple, too, with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pairs of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance and had no notion of walking. ”

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Charles Dickens, Our American Holidays - Christmas (1949)

“ Pickwick.
"Fill up," cried Wardle. "It will be two hours good, before you see the bottom of the bowl through the deep rich colour of the wassail; fill up all round, and now for the song."
Thus saying, the merry old gentleman, in a good, round, sturdy voice, commenced without more ado —
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
I care not for Spring ”

Charles Dickens

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