Surely happiness is reflective,
like the light of heaven, and every countenance, bright with
smiles and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror
transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining
benevolence. He who can turn churlishly away from contemplating
the felicity of his fellow-beings, and can sit down darkling and
repining in his loneliness when all around is joyful, may have
his moments of strong excitement and selfish gratification, but
he wants the genial and social sympathies which constitute the
charm of a merry Christmas.
THE STAGE-COACH.
Omne bene
Sine poena
Tempua est ludendi.
Venit hora
Absque mora
Libros deponendi.
OLD HOLIDAY SCHOOL-SONG.
IN the preceding paper I have made some general observations on
the Christmas festivities of England, and am tempted to
illustrate them by some anecdotes of a Christmas passed in the
country; in perusing which I would most courteously invite my
reader to lay aside the austerity of wisdom, and to put on that
genuine holiday spirit which is tolerant of folly and anxious
only for amusement.
In the course of a December tour in Yorkshire, I rode for a long
distance in one of the public coaches on the day preceding
Christmas.
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