id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 14829 Various Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas .txt text/plain 25675 1581 83 For a great many years there was no Christmas in New England. with the celebration of his birth, at Christmas-time, the feast-days open, and the coming of the great day is celebrated by a mass at The custom of celebrating the first day of the year is a very ancient New Year's Day, and the church festivals kept alike by the Dutch Brooklyn fields were crowded with them on New Year's Day, at Easter, at little girl who one Christmas inquired the way to the poet's house, and beautiful memories of that Christmas day to carry all through her life. [Illustration: GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON ON THE WAY TO HIS INAUGURATION] Jimmy stood at a corner of Old Market and sold little bundles of dried "Eggs?" said the General, looking over the little stand. keep Jimmy's basket while the boy went to the house. "I shall come and see your mother, Jimmy," said the General's wife, as ./cache/14829.txt ./txt/14829.txt