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-The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Christmas dinner, by Washington Irving
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-Title: The Christmas dinner
-       from "The sketch book"
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-Author: Washington Irving
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-                         THE CHRISTMAS DINNER
-
-                        FROM “THE SKETCH BOOK”
-                             BY WASHINGTON
-                                IRVING
-
-                       [Illustration: colophon]
-
-                               NEW YORK
-                          WILLIAM EDWIN RUDGE
-                                 1923
-
-
-          _Lo! now is come our joyful’st feast!_
-            _Let every man be jolly;_
-          _Eache roome with yvie leaves is drest,_
-            _And every post with holly._
-          _Now all our neighbours’ chimneys smoke,_
-            _And Christmas blocks are burning;_
-          _Their ovens they with bak’t meats choke,_
-            _And all their spits are turning._
-              _Without the door let sorrow lie,_
-              _And if, for cold, it hap to die,_
-              _We’ll bury’t in a Christmas pye,_
-              _And evermore be merry._
-                       WITHERS’ “JUVENILLA.”
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: The Christmas Dinner]
-
-_FROM “THE SKETCH BOOK”_
-
-
-The dinner was served up in the great hall, where the squire always held
-his Christmas banquet. A blazing, crackling fire of logs had been heaped
-on to warm the spacious apartment, and the flame went sparkling and
-wreathing up the wide-mouthed chimney. The great picture of the crusader
-and his white horse had been profusely decorated with greens for the
-occasion; and holly and ivy had likewise been wreathed round the helmet
-and weapons on the opposite wall, which I understood were the arms of
-the same warrior. I must own, by-the-bye, I had strong doubts about the
-authenticity of the painting and armour as having belonged to the
-crusader, they certainly having the stamp of more recent days; but I was
-told that the painting had been so considered time out of mind; and
-that, as to the armour, it had been found in a lumber-room, and elevated
-to its present situation by the squire, who at once determined it to be
-the armour of the family hero; and as he was absolute authority on all
-such subjects in his own household, the matter had passed into current
-acceptation. A sideboard was set out just under this chivalric trophy,
-on which was a display of plate that might have vied (at least in
-variety) with Belshazzar’s parade of the vessels of the
-temple:--“flagons, cans, cups, beakers, goblets, basins, and ewers”; the
-gorgeous utensils of good companionship that had gradually accumulated
-through many generations of jovial housekeepers. Before these stood the
-two Yule candles, beaming like two stars of the first magnitude; other
-lights were distributed in branches, and the whole array glittered like
-a firmament of silver.
-
-We were ushered into this banqueting scene with the sound of minstrelsy,
-the old harper being seated on a stool beside the fireplace, and
-twanging his instrument with a vast deal more power than melody. Never
-did Christmas board display a more goodly and gracious assemblage of
-countenances; those who were not handsome were, at least, happy; and
-happiness is a rare improver of your hard-favoured visage. I always
-consider an old English family as well worth studying as a collection of
-Holbein’s portraits or Albert Dürer’s prints. There is much antiquarian
-lore to be acquired; much knowledge of the physiognomies of former
-times. Perhaps it may be from having continually before their eyes those
-rows of old family portraits with which the mansions of this country
-are stocked; certain it is, that the quaint features of antiquity are
-often most faithfully perpetuated in these ancient lines; and I have
-traced an old family nose through a whole picture-gallery, legitimately
-handed down from generation to generation, almost from the time of the
-Conquest. Something of the kind was to be observed in the worthy company
-around me. Many of their faces had evidently originated in a gothic age,
-and been merely copied by succeeding generations; and there was one
-little girl in particular, of staid demeanour, with a high Roman nose,
-and an antique vinegar aspect, who was a great favourite of the
-squire’s, being, as he said, a Bracebridge all over, and the very
-counterpart of one of his ancestors who figured in the court of Henry
-VIII.
-
-The parson said grace, which was not a short, familiar one, such as is
-commonly addressed to the Deity in these unceremonious days; but a
-long, courtly, well-worded one of the ancient school. There was now a
-pause, as if something was expected; when suddenly the butler entered
-the hall with some degree of bustle: he was attended by a servant on
-each side with a large wax-light, and bore a silver dish, on which was
-an enormous pig’s head, decorated with rosemary, with a lemon in its
-mouth, which was placed with great formality at the head of the table.
-The moment this pageant made its appearance, the harper struck up a
-flourish; at the conclusion of which the young Oxonian, on receiving a
-hint from the squire, gave, with an air of the most comic gravity, an
-old carol, the first verse of which was as follows:
-
-      Caput apri defero,
-      Reddens laudes Domino.
-    The boar’s head in hand bring I,
-    With garlands gay and rosemary.
-    I pray you all synge merily
-      Qui estis in convivio.
-
-Though prepared to witness many of these little eccentricities, from
-being apprised of the peculiar hobby of mine host; yet, I confess, the
-parade with which so odd a dish was introduced somewhat perplexed me,
-until I gathered from the conversation of the squire and the parson,
-that it was meant to represent the bringing in of the boar’s head; a
-dish formerly served up with much ceremony and the sound of minstrelsy
-and song, at great tables, on Christmas day. “I like the old custom,”
-said the squire, “not merely because it is stately and pleasing in
-itself, but because it was observed at the college at Oxford at which I
-was educated. When I hear the old song chanted, it brings to mind the
-time when I was young and gamesome--and the noble old college hall--and
-my fellow-students loitering about in their black gowns; many of whom,
-poor lads, are now in their graves!”
-
-The parson, however, whose mind was not haunted by such associations,
-and who was always more taken up with the text than the sentiment,
-objected to the Oxonian’s version of the carol, which, he affirmed, was
-different from that sung at college. He went on, with the dry
-perseverance of a commentator, to give the college reading, accompanied
-by sundry annotations; addressing himself at first to the company at
-large; but finding their attention gradually diverted to other talk and
-other objects, he lowered his tone as his number of auditors diminished,
-until he concluded his remarks in an under voice to a fat-headed old
-gentleman next him, who was silently engaged in the discussion of a huge
-plateful of turkey.
-
-The table was literally loaded with good cheer, and presented an epitome
-of country abundance, in this season of overflowing larders. A
-distinguished post was allotted to “ancient sirloin,” as mine host
-termed it; being, as he added, “the standard of old English
-hospitality, and a joint of goodly presence, and full of expectation.”
-There were several dishes quaintly decorated, and which had evidently
-something traditional in their embellishments; but about which, as I did
-not like to appear over-curious, I asked no questions.
-
-I could not, however, but notice a pie, magnificently decorated with
-peacock’s feathers, in imitation of the tail of that bird, which
-overshadowed a considerable tract of the table. This, the squire
-confessed, with some little hesitation, was a pheasant pie, though a
-peacock pie was certainly the most authentical; but there had been such
-a mortality among the peacocks this season, that he could not prevail
-upon himself to have one killed.
-
-It would be tedious, perhaps, to my wiser readers, who may not have that
-foolish fondness for odd and obsolete things, to which I am a little
-given, were I to mention the other makeshifts of this worthy old
-humorist, by which he was endeavouring to follow up, though at humble
-distance, the quaint customs of antiquity. I was pleased, however, to
-see the respect shown to his whims by his children and relatives; who,
-indeed, entered readily into the full spirit of them, and seemed all
-well versed in their parts; having doubtless been present at many a
-rehearsal. I was amused, too, at the air of profound gravity with which
-the butler and other servants executed the duties assigned them, however
-eccentric. They had an old-fashioned look; having, for the most part,
-been brought up in the household, and grown into keeping with the
-antiquated mansion, and the humours of its lord; and most probably
-looked upon all his whimsical regulations as the established laws of
-honourable housekeeping.
-
-When the cloth was removed, the butler brought in a huge silver vessel
-of rare and curious workmanship, which he placed before the squire. Its
-appearance was hailed with acclamation; being the Wassail Bowl, so
-renowned in Christmas festivity. The contents had been prepared by the
-squire himself; for it was a beverage in the skilful mixture of which he
-particularly prided himself; alleging that it was too abstruse and
-complex for the comprehension of an ordinary servant. It was a potation,
-indeed, that might well make the heart of a toper leap within him; being
-composed of the richest and raciest wines, highly spiced and sweetened,
-with roasted apples bobbing about the surface.
-
-The old gentleman’s whole countenance beamed with a serene look of
-indwelling delight, as he stirred this mighty bowl. Having raised it to
-his lips, with a hearty wish of a merry Christmas to all present, he
-sent it brimming round the board, for every one to follow his example,
-according to the primitive style; pronouncing it “the ancient fountain
-of good-feeling, where all hearts met together.”
-
-There was much laughing and rallying as the honest emblem of Christmas
-joviality circulated, and was kissed rather coyly by the ladies. When it
-reached Master Simon, he raised it in both hands, and with the air of a
-boon companion struck up an old Wassail chanson:
-
-    The brown bowle,
-    The merry brown bowle,
-    As it goes round-about-a,
-      Fill
-      Still,
-    Let the world say what it will,
-    And drink your fill all out-a.
-
-    The deep canne,
-    The merry deep canne,
-    As thou dost freely quaff-a,
-      Sing
-      Fling,
-    Be as merry as a king,
-    And sound a lusty laugh-a.
-
-Much of the conversation during dinner turned upon family topics, to
-which I was a stranger. There was, however, a great deal of rallying of
-Master Simon about some gay widow, with whom he was accused of having a
-flirtation. This attack was commenced by the ladies; but it was
-continued throughout the dinner by the fat-headed old gentleman next the
-parson, with the persevering assiduity of a slow hound; being one of
-those long-winded jokers, who, though rather dull at starting game, are
-unrivalled for their talent in hunting it down. At every pause in the
-general conversation, he renewed his bantering in pretty much the same
-terms; winking hard at me with both eyes, whenever he gave Master Simon
-what he considered a home thrust. The latter, indeed, seemed fond of
-being teased on the subject, as old bachelors are apt to be; and he took
-occasion to inform me, in an under tone, that the lady in question was
-a prodigiously fine woman, and drove her own curricle.
-
-The dinner-time passed away in this flow of innocent hilarity; and,
-though the old hall may have resounded in its time with many a scene of
-broader rout and revel, yet I doubt whether it ever witnessed more
-honest and genuine enjoyment. How easy it is for one benevolent being to
-diffuse pleasure around him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of
-gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles! The
-joyous disposition of the worthy squire was perfectly contagious; he was
-happy himself, and disposed to make all the world happy; and the little
-eccentricities of his humour did but season, in a manner, the sweetness
-of his philanthropy.
-
-When the ladies had retired, the conversation, as usual, became still
-more animated; many good things were broached which had been thought of
-during dinner, but which would not exactly do for a lady’s ear; and
-though I cannot positively affirm that there was much wit uttered, yet I
-have certainly heard many contests of rare wit produce much less
-laughter. Wit, after all, is a mighty, tart, pungent, ingredient, and
-much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humour is the oil and
-wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to
-that where the jokes are rather small, and the laughter abundant.
-
-The squire told several long stories of early college pranks and
-adventures, in some of which the parson had been a sharer; though in
-looking at the latter, it required some effort of imagination to figure
-such a little dark anatomy of a man into the perpetrator of a madcap
-gambol. Indeed, the two college chums presented pictures of what men may
-be made by their different lots in life. The squire had left the
-university to live lustily on his parental domains, in the vigorous
-enjoyment of prosperity and sunshine, and had flourished on to a hearty
-and florid old age; whilst the poor parson, on the contrary, had dried
-and withered away, among dusty tomes, in the silence and shadows of his
-study. Still there seemed to be a spark of almost extinguished fire,
-feebly glimmering in the bottom of his soul; and as the squire hinted at
-a sly story of the parson and a pretty milkmaid, whom they once met on
-the banks of the Isis, the old gentleman made an “alphabet of faces,”
-which, as far as I could decipher his physiognomy, I verily believe was
-indicative of laughter; indeed, I have rarely met with an old gentleman
-that took absolute offence at the imputed gallantries of his youth.
-
-I found the tide of wine and wassail fast gaining on the dry land of
-sober judgment. The company grew merrier and louder as their jokes grew
-duller. Master Simon was in as chirping a humour as a grasshopper
-filled with dew; his old songs grew of a warmer complexion, and he began
-to talk maudlin about the widow. He even gave a long song about the
-wooing of a widow, which he informed me he had gathered from an
-excellent black-letter work, entitled _Cupid’s Solicitor for Love_,
-containing store of good advice for bachelors, and which he promised to
-lend me; the first verse was to this effect:
-
-    He that will woo a widow must not dally,
-      He must make hay while the sun doth shine;
-    He must not stand with her--shall I, shall I?
-      But boldly say, Widow, thou must be mine.
-
-This song inspired the fat-headed old gentleman, who made several
-attempts to tell a rather broad story out of Joe Miller, that was pat to
-the purpose; but he always stuck in the middle, everybody recollecting
-the latter part excepting himself. The parson, too, began to show the
-effects of good cheer, having gradually settled down into a doze, and
-his wig sitting most suspiciously on one side. Just at this juncture we
-were summoned to the drawing-room, and I suspect, at the private
-instigation of mine host, whose joviality seemed always tempered with a
-proper love of decorum.
-
-After the dinner-table was removed, the hall was given up to the younger
-members of the family, who, prompted to all kind of noisy mirth by the
-Oxonian and Master Simon, made its old walls ring with their merriment,
-as they played at romping games. I delight in witnessing the gambols of
-children, and particularly at this happy holiday season, and could not
-help stealing out of the drawing-room on hearing one of their peals of
-laughter. I found them at the game of blind-man’s-buff. Master Simon,
-who was the leader of their revels, and seemed on all occasions to
-fulfil the office of that ancient potentate, the Lord of Misrule, was
-blinded in the midst of the hall. The little beings were as busy about
-him as the mock fairies about Falstaff; pinching him, plucking at the
-skirts of his coat, and tickling him with straws. One fine blue-eyed
-girl of about thirteen, with her flaxen hair all in beautiful confusion,
-her frolic face in a glow, her frock half torn off her shoulders, a
-complete picture of a romp, was the chief tormentor; and, from the
-slyness with which Master Simon avoided the smaller game, and hemmed
-this wild little nymph in corners, and obliged her to jump shrieking
-over chairs, I suspected the rogue of being not a whit more blinded than
-was convenient.
-
-When I returned to the drawing-room, I found the company seated round
-the fire listening to the parson, who was deeply ensconced in a
-high-backed oaken chair, the work of some cunning artificer of yore,
-which had been brought from the library for his particular
-accommodation. From this venerable piece of furniture, with which his
-shadowy figure and dark weazen face so admirably accorded, he was
-dealing out strange accounts of the popular superstitions and legends of
-the surrounding country, with which he had become acquainted in the
-course of his antiquarian researches. I am half inclined to think that
-the old gentleman was himself somewhat tinctured with superstition, as
-men are very apt to be who live a recluse and studious life in a
-sequestered part of the country, and pore over black-letter tracts, so
-often filled with the marvellous and supernatural. He gave us several
-anecdotes of the fancies of the neighbouring peasantry, concerning the
-effigy of the crusader, which lay on the tomb by the church altar. As it
-was the only monument of the kind in that part of the country it had
-always been regarded with feelings of superstition by the good wives of
-the village. It was said to get up from the tomb and walk the rounds of
-the churchyard in stormy nights, particularly when it thundered; and one
-old woman, whose cottage bordered on the churchyard, had seen it through
-the windows of the church, when the moon shone, slowly pacing up and
-down the aisles. It was the belief that some wrong had been left
-unredressed by the deceased, or some treasure hidden, which kept the
-spirit in a state of trouble and restlessness. Some talked of gold and
-jewels buried in the tomb, over which the spectre kept watch; and there
-was a story current of a sexton in old times who endeavoured to break
-his way to the coffin at night, but, just as he reached it, received a
-violent blow from the marble hand of the effigy, which stretched him
-senseless on the pavement. These tales were often laughed at by some of
-the sturdier among the rustics, yet when night came on, there were many
-of the stoutest unbelievers that were shy of venturing alone in the
-footpath that led across the churchyard.
-
-From these and other anecdotes that followed, the crusader appeared to
-be the favourite hero of ghost stories throughout the vicinity. His
-picture which hung up in the hall, was thought by the servants to have
-something supernatural about it; for they remarked that, in whatever
-part of the hall you went, the eyes of the warrior were still fixed on
-you. The old porter’s wife, too, at the lodge, who had been born and
-brought up in the family, and was a great gossip among the
-maid-servants, affirmed that in her young days she had often heard say,
-that on Midsummer eve, when it was well known all kinds of ghosts,
-goblins, and fairies become visible and walk abroad, the crusader used
-to mount his horse, come down from his picture, ride about the house,
-down the avenue, and so to the church to visit the tomb; on which
-occasion the church door most civilly swung open of itself; not that he
-needed it; for he rode through closed gates and even stone walls, and
-had been seen by one of the dairymaids to pass between two bars of the
-great park gate, making himself as thin as a sheet of paper.
-
-All these superstitions I found had been very much countenanced by the
-squire, who, though not superstitious himself, was very fond of seeing
-others so. He listened to every goblin tale of the neighbouring gossips
-with infinite gravity, and held the porter’s wife in high favour on
-account of her talent for the marvellous. He was himself a great reader
-of old legends and romances, and often lamented that he could not
-believe in them; for a superstitious person, he thought, must live in a
-kind of fairy land.
-
-Whilst we were all attention to the parson’s stories, our ears were
-suddenly assailed by a burst of heterogeneous sounds from the hall, in
-which were mingled something like the clang of rude minstrelsy, with the
-uproar of many small voices and girlish laughter. The door suddenly flew
-open, and a train came trooping into the room, that might almost have
-been mistaken for the breaking-up of the court of Fairy. That
-indefatigable spirit, Master Simon, in the faithful discharge of his
-duties as Lord of Misrule, had conceived the idea of a Christmas mummery
-or masking; and having called in to his assistance the Oxonian and the
-young officer, who were equally ripe for anything that should occasion
-romping and merriment, they had carried it into instant effect. The old
-housekeeper had been consulted; the antique clothes-presses and
-wardrobes rummaged, and made to yield up the relics of finery that had
-not seen the light for several generations; the younger part of the
-company had been privately convened from the parlour and hall, and the
-whole had been bedizened out, into a burlesque imitation of an antique
-mask.
-
-Master Simon led the van, as “Ancient Christmas,” quaintly apparelled in
-a ruff, a short cloak, which had very much the aspect of one of the old
-housekeeper’s petticoats, and a hat that might have served for a village
-steeple, and must indubitably have figured in the days of the
-Covenanters. From under this his nose curved boldly forth, flushed with
-a frostbitten bloom, that seemed the very trophy of a December blast. He
-was accompanied by the blue-eyed romp, dished up as “Dame Mince Pie,” in
-the venerable magnificence of a faded brocade, long stomacher, peaked
-hat, and high-heeled shoes. The young officer appeared as Robin Hood, in
-a sporting dress of Kendal green, and a foraging cap with a gold
-tassel.
-
-The costume, to be sure, did not bear testimony to deep research, and
-there was an evident eye to the picturesque, natural to a young gallant
-in the presence of his mistress. The fair Julia hung on his arm in a
-pretty rustic dress, as “Maid Marian.” The rest of the train had been
-metamorphosed in various ways; the girls trussed up in the finery of the
-ancient belles of the Bracebridge line, and the striplings bewhiskered
-with burnt cork, and gravely clad in broad skirts, hanging sleeves, and
-full-bottomed wigs, to represent the character of Roast Beef, Plum
-Pudding, and other worthies celebrated in ancient maskings. The whole
-was under the control of the Oxonian, in the appropriate character of
-Misrule; and I observed that he exercised rather a mischievous sway with
-his wand over the smaller personages of the pageant.
-
-The irruption of this motley crew, with beat of drum, according to
-ancient custom, was the consummation of uproar and merriment. Master
-Simon covered himself with glory by the stateliness with which, as
-Ancient Christmas, he walked a minuet with the peerless, though
-giggling, Dame Mince Pie. It was followed by a dance of all the
-characters, which, from its medley of costumes, seemed as though the old
-family portraits had skipped down from their frames to join in the
-sport. Different centuries were figuring at cross hands and right and
-left; the dark ages were cutting pirouettes and rigadoons; and the days
-of Queen Bess jiggling merrily down the middle, through a line of
-succeeding generations.
-
-The worthy squire contemplated these fantastic sports, and this
-resurrection of his old wardrobe, with the simple relish of childish
-delight. He stood chuckling and rubbing his hands, and scarcely hearing
-a word the parson said, notwithstanding that the latter was discoursing
-most authentically on the ancient and stately dance at the Paon, or
-peacock, from which he conceived the minuet to be derived. For my part I
-was in a continual excitement, from the varied scenes of whim and
-innocent gaiety passing before me. It was inspiring to me to see
-wild-eyed frolic and warm-hearted hospitality breaking out from among
-the chills and glooms of winter, and old age throwing off his apathy,
-and catching once more the freshness of youthful enjoyment. I felt also
-an interest in the scene, from the consideration that these fleeting
-customs were posting fast into oblivion, and that this was, perhaps, the
-only family in England in which the whole of them were still
-punctiliously observed. There was a quaintness, too, mingled with all
-this revelry, that gave it a peculiar zest: it was suited to the time
-and place; and as the old manor-house almost reeled with mirth and
-wassail, it seemed echoing back the joviality of long departed years.
-
-But enough of Christmas and its gambols; it is time for me to pause in
-this garrulity. Methinks I hear the questions asked by my grave readers,
-“To what purpose is all this--how is the world to be made wiser by this
-talk?” Alas! is there not wisdom enough extant for the instruction of
-the world? And if not, are there not thousands of abler pens labouring
-for its improvement!--It is so much pleasanter to please than to
-instruct--to play the companion rather than the preceptor.
-
-What, after all, is the mite of wisdom that I could throw into the mass
-of knowledge; or how am I sure that my sagest deductions may be safe
-guides for the opinion of others? But in writing to amuse, if I fail,
-the only evil is in my own disappointment. If, however, I can by any
-lucky chance, in these days of evil, rub out one wrinkle from the brow
-of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sorrow; if I can
-now and then penetrate through the gathering film of misanthropy, prompt
-a benevolent view of human nature, and make my reader more in good
-humour with his fellow-beings and himself, surely, surely, I shall not
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-<span class="i4"><i>Without the door let sorrow lie,</i><br /></span>
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-such subjects in his own household, the matter had passed into current
-acceptation. A sideboard was set out just under this chivalric trophy,
-on which was a display of plate that might have vied (at least in
-variety) with Belshazzar’s parade of the vessels of the
-temple:&mdash;“flagons, cans, cups, beakers, goblets, basins, and ewers”; the
-gorgeous utensils of good companionship that had gradually accumulated
-through many generations of jovial housekeepers. Before these stood the
-two Yule candles,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_3" id="page_3">{3}</a></span> beaming like two stars of the first magnitude; other
-lights were distributed in branches, and the whole array glittered like
-a firmament of silver.</p>
-
-<p>We were ushered into this banqueting scene with the sound of minstrelsy,
-the old harper being seated on a stool beside the fireplace, and
-twanging his instrument with a vast deal more power than melody. Never
-did Christmas board display a more goodly and gracious assemblage of
-countenances; those who were not handsome were, at least, happy; and
-happiness is a rare improver of your hard-favoured visage. I always
-consider an old English family as well worth studying as a collection of
-Holbein’s portraits or Albert Dürer’s prints. There is much antiquarian
-lore to be acquired; much knowledge of the physiognomies of former
-times. Perhaps it may be from having continually before their eyes those
-rows of old family portraits with which the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_4" id="page_4">{4}</a></span> mansions of this country
-are stocked; certain it is, that the quaint features of antiquity are
-often most faithfully perpetuated in these ancient lines; and I have
-traced an old family nose through a whole picture-gallery, legitimately
-handed down from generation to generation, almost from the time of the
-Conquest. Something of the kind was to be observed in the worthy company
-around me. Many of their faces had evidently originated in a gothic age,
-and been merely copied by succeeding generations; and there was one
-little girl in particular, of staid demeanour, with a high Roman nose,
-and an antique vinegar aspect, who was a great favourite of the
-squire’s, being, as he said, a Bracebridge all over, and the very
-counterpart of one of his ancestors who figured in the court of Henry
-VIII.</p>
-
-<p>The parson said grace, which was not a short, familiar one, such as is
-commonly addressed to the Deity in these uncere<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_5" id="page_5">{5}</a></span>monious days; but a
-long, courtly, well-worded one of the ancient school. There was now a
-pause, as if something was expected; when suddenly the butler entered
-the hall with some degree of bustle: he was attended by a servant on
-each side with a large wax-light, and bore a silver dish, on which was
-an enormous pig’s head, decorated with rosemary, with a lemon in its
-mouth, which was placed with great formality at the head of the table.
-The moment this pageant made its appearance, the harper struck up a
-flourish; at the conclusion of which the young Oxonian, on receiving a
-hint from the squire, gave, with an air of the most comic gravity, an
-old carol, the first verse of which was as follows:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry">
-<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i2">Caput apri defero,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Reddens laudes Domino.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The boar’s head in hand bring I,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">With garlands gay and rosemary.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">I pray you all synge merily<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Qui estis in convivio.<br /></span>
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_6" id="page_6">{6}</a></span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<p>Though prepared to witness many of these little eccentricities, from
-being apprised of the peculiar hobby of mine host; yet, I confess, the
-parade with which so odd a dish was introduced somewhat perplexed me,
-until I gathered from the conversation of the squire and the parson,
-that it was meant to represent the bringing in of the boar’s head; a
-dish formerly served up with much ceremony and the sound of minstrelsy
-and song, at great tables, on Christmas day. “I like the old custom,”
-said the squire, “not merely because it is stately and pleasing in
-itself, but because it was observed at the college at Oxford at which I
-was educated. When I hear the old song chanted, it brings to mind the
-time when I was young and gamesome&mdash;and the noble old college hall&mdash;and
-my fellow-students loitering about in their black gowns; many of whom,
-poor lads, are now in their graves!”</p>
-
-<p>The parson, however, whose mind was<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_7" id="page_7">{7}</a></span> not haunted by such associations,
-and who was always more taken up with the text than the sentiment,
-objected to the Oxonian’s version of the carol, which, he affirmed, was
-different from that sung at college. He went on, with the dry
-perseverance of a commentator, to give the college reading, accompanied
-by sundry annotations; addressing himself at first to the company at
-large; but finding their attention gradually diverted to other talk and
-other objects, he lowered his tone as his number of auditors diminished,
-until he concluded his remarks in an under voice to a fat-headed old
-gentleman next him, who was silently engaged in the discussion of a huge
-plateful of turkey.</p>
-
-<p>The table was literally loaded with good cheer, and presented an epitome
-of country abundance, in this season of overflowing larders. A
-distinguished post was allotted to “ancient sirloin,” as mine host
-termed it; being, as he added, “the stand<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_8" id="page_8">{8}</a></span>ard of old English
-hospitality, and a joint of goodly presence, and full of expectation.”
-There were several dishes quaintly decorated, and which had evidently
-something traditional in their embellishments; but about which, as I did
-not like to appear over-curious, I asked no questions.</p>
-
-<p>I could not, however, but notice a pie, magnificently decorated with
-peacock’s feathers, in imitation of the tail of that bird, which
-overshadowed a considerable tract of the table. This, the squire
-confessed, with some little hesitation, was a pheasant pie, though a
-peacock pie was certainly the most authentical; but there had been such
-a mortality among the peacocks this season, that he could not prevail
-upon himself to have one killed.</p>
-
-<p>It would be tedious, perhaps, to my wiser readers, who may not have that
-foolish fondness for odd and obsolete things, to which I am a little
-given, were I to mention the other makeshifts of this<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_9" id="page_9">{9}</a></span> worthy old
-humorist, by which he was endeavouring to follow up, though at humble
-distance, the quaint customs of antiquity. I was pleased, however, to
-see the respect shown to his whims by his children and relatives; who,
-indeed, entered readily into the full spirit of them, and seemed all
-well versed in their parts; having doubtless been present at many a
-rehearsal. I was amused, too, at the air of profound gravity with which
-the butler and other servants executed the duties assigned them, however
-eccentric. They had an old-fashioned look; having, for the most part,
-been brought up in the household, and grown into keeping with the
-antiquated mansion, and the humours of its lord; and most probably
-looked upon all his whimsical regulations as the established laws of
-honourable housekeeping.</p>
-
-<p>When the cloth was removed, the butler brought in a huge silver vessel
-of<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_10" id="page_10">{10}</a></span> rare and curious workmanship, which he placed before the squire. Its
-appearance was hailed with acclamation; being the Wassail Bowl, so
-renowned in Christmas festivity. The contents had been prepared by the
-squire himself; for it was a beverage in the skilful mixture of which he
-particularly prided himself; alleging that it was too abstruse and
-complex for the comprehension of an ordinary servant. It was a potation,
-indeed, that might well make the heart of a toper leap within him; being
-composed of the richest and raciest wines, highly spiced and sweetened,
-with roasted apples bobbing about the surface.</p>
-
-<p>The old gentleman’s whole countenance beamed with a serene look of
-indwelling delight, as he stirred this mighty bowl. Having raised it to
-his lips, with a hearty wish of a merry Christmas to all present, he
-sent it brimming round the board, for every one to follow his exam<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_11" id="page_11">{11}</a></span>ple,
-according to the primitive style; pronouncing it “the ancient fountain
-of good-feeling, where all hearts met together.”</p>
-
-<p>There was much laughing and rallying as the honest emblem of Christmas
-joviality circulated, and was kissed rather coyly by the ladies. When it
-reached Master Simon, he raised it in both hands, and with the air of a
-boon companion struck up an old Wassail chanson:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry">
-<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The brown bowle,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The merry brown bowle,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">As it goes round-about-a,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Fill<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Still,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Let the world say what it will,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And drink your fill all out-a.<br /></span>
-</div><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">The deep canne,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The merry deep canne,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">As thou dost freely quaff-a,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Sing<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">Fling,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Be as merry as a king,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">And sound a lusty laugh-a.<br /></span>
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_12" id="page_12">{12}</a></span></div></div>
-</div>
-
-<p>Much of the conversation during dinner turned upon family topics, to
-which I was a stranger. There was, however, a great deal of rallying of
-Master Simon about some gay widow, with whom he was accused of having a
-flirtation. This attack was commenced by the ladies; but it was
-continued throughout the dinner by the fat-headed old gentleman next the
-parson, with the persevering assiduity of a slow hound; being one of
-those long-winded jokers, who, though rather dull at starting game, are
-unrivalled for their talent in hunting it down. At every pause in the
-general conversation, he renewed his bantering in pretty much the same
-terms; winking hard at me with both eyes, whenever he gave Master Simon
-what he considered a home thrust. The latter, indeed, seemed fond of
-being teased on the subject, as old bachelors are apt to be; and he took
-occasion to inform me, in an under tone, that the lady in question was<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_13" id="page_13">{13}</a></span>
-a prodigiously fine woman, and drove her own curricle.</p>
-
-<p>The dinner-time passed away in this flow of innocent hilarity; and,
-though the old hall may have resounded in its time with many a scene of
-broader rout and revel, yet I doubt whether it ever witnessed more
-honest and genuine enjoyment. How easy it is for one benevolent being to
-diffuse pleasure around him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of
-gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles! The
-joyous disposition of the worthy squire was perfectly contagious; he was
-happy himself, and disposed to make all the world happy; and the little
-eccentricities of his humour did but season, in a manner, the sweetness
-of his philanthropy.</p>
-
-<p>When the ladies had retired, the conversation, as usual, became still
-more animated; many good things were broached which had been thought of
-during dinner,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_14" id="page_14">{14}</a></span> but which would not exactly do for a lady’s ear; and
-though I cannot positively affirm that there was much wit uttered, yet I
-have certainly heard many contests of rare wit produce much less
-laughter. Wit, after all, is a mighty, tart, pungent, ingredient, and
-much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humour is the oil and
-wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to
-that where the jokes are rather small, and the laughter abundant.</p>
-
-<p>The squire told several long stories of early college pranks and
-adventures, in some of which the parson had been a sharer; though in
-looking at the latter, it required some effort of imagination to figure
-such a little dark anatomy of a man into the perpetrator of a madcap
-gambol. Indeed, the two college chums presented pictures of what men may
-be made by their different lots in life. The squire had left the
-university to live lustily on his<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_15" id="page_15">{15}</a></span> parental domains, in the vigorous
-enjoyment of prosperity and sunshine, and had flourished on to a hearty
-and florid old age; whilst the poor parson, on the contrary, had dried
-and withered away, among dusty tomes, in the silence and shadows of his
-study. Still there seemed to be a spark of almost extinguished fire,
-feebly glimmering in the bottom of his soul; and as the squire hinted at
-a sly story of the parson and a pretty milkmaid, whom they once met on
-the banks of the Isis, the old gentleman made an “alphabet of faces,”
-which, as far as I could decipher his physiognomy, I verily believe was
-indicative of laughter; indeed, I have rarely met with an old gentleman
-that took absolute offence at the imputed gallantries of his youth.</p>
-
-<p>I found the tide of wine and wassail fast gaining on the dry land of
-sober judgment. The company grew merrier and louder as their jokes grew
-duller.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_16" id="page_16">{16}</a></span> Master Simon was in as chirping a humour as a grasshopper
-filled with dew; his old songs grew of a warmer complexion, and he began
-to talk maudlin about the widow. He even gave a long song about the
-wooing of a widow, which he informed me he had gathered from an
-excellent black-letter work, entitled <i>Cupid’s Solicitor for Love</i>,
-containing store of good advice for bachelors, and which he promised to
-lend me; the first verse was to this effect:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry">
-<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">He that will woo a widow must not dally,<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">He must make hay while the sun doth shine;<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">He must not stand with her&mdash;shall I, shall I?<br /></span>
-<span class="i2">But boldly say, Widow, thou must be mine.<br /></span>
-</div></div>
-</div>
-
-<p>This song inspired the fat-headed old gentleman, who made several
-attempts to tell a rather broad story out of Joe Miller, that was pat to
-the purpose; but he always stuck in the middle, everybody recollecting
-the latter part excepting himself. The parson, too, began to show<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_17" id="page_17">{17}</a></span> the
-effects of good cheer, having gradually settled down into a doze, and
-his wig sitting most suspiciously on one side. Just at this juncture we
-were summoned to the drawing-room, and I suspect, at the private
-instigation of mine host, whose joviality seemed always tempered with a
-proper love of decorum.</p>
-
-<p>After the dinner-table was removed, the hall was given up to the younger
-members of the family, who, prompted to all kind of noisy mirth by the
-Oxonian and Master Simon, made its old walls ring with their merriment,
-as they played at romping games. I delight in witnessing the gambols of
-children, and particularly at this happy holiday season, and could not
-help stealing out of the drawing-room on hearing one of their peals of
-laughter. I found them at the game of blind-man’s-buff. Master Simon,
-who was the leader of their revels, and seemed on all occasions to
-fulfil the office of that<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_18" id="page_18">{18}</a></span> ancient potentate, the Lord of Misrule, was
-blinded in the midst of the hall. The little beings were as busy about
-him as the mock fairies about Falstaff; pinching him, plucking at the
-skirts of his coat, and tickling him with straws. One fine blue-eyed
-girl of about thirteen, with her flaxen hair all in beautiful confusion,
-her frolic face in a glow, her frock half torn off her shoulders, a
-complete picture of a romp, was the chief tormentor; and, from the
-slyness with which Master Simon avoided the smaller game, and hemmed
-this wild little nymph in corners, and obliged her to jump shrieking
-over chairs, I suspected the rogue of being not a whit more blinded than
-was convenient.</p>
-
-<p>When I returned to the drawing-room, I found the company seated round
-the fire listening to the parson, who was deeply ensconced in a
-high-backed oaken chair, the work of some cunning artificer of yore,
-which had been brought from the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_19" id="page_19">{19}</a></span> library for his particular
-accommodation. From this venerable piece of furniture, with which his
-shadowy figure and dark weazen face so admirably accorded, he was
-dealing out strange accounts of the popular superstitions and legends of
-the surrounding country, with which he had become acquainted in the
-course of his antiquarian researches. I am half inclined to think that
-the old gentleman was himself somewhat tinctured with superstition, as
-men are very apt to be who live a recluse and studious life in a
-sequestered part of the country, and pore over black-letter tracts, so
-often filled with the marvellous and supernatural. He gave us several
-anecdotes of the fancies of the neighbouring peasantry, concerning the
-effigy of the crusader, which lay on the tomb by the church altar. As it
-was the only monument of the kind in that part of the country it had
-always been regarded with feelings of supersti<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_20" id="page_20">{20}</a></span>tion by the good wives of
-the village. It was said to get up from the tomb and walk the rounds of
-the churchyard in stormy nights, particularly when it thundered; and one
-old woman, whose cottage bordered on the churchyard, had seen it through
-the windows of the church, when the moon shone, slowly pacing up and
-down the aisles. It was the belief that some wrong had been left
-unredressed by the deceased, or some treasure hidden, which kept the
-spirit in a state of trouble and restlessness. Some talked of gold and
-jewels buried in the tomb, over which the spectre kept watch; and there
-was a story current of a sexton in old times who endeavoured to break
-his way to the coffin at night, but, just as he reached it, received a
-violent blow from the marble hand of the effigy, which stretched him
-senseless on the pavement. These tales were often laughed at by some of
-the sturdier among the rustics, yet when<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_21" id="page_21">{21}</a></span> night came on, there were many
-of the stoutest unbelievers that were shy of venturing alone in the
-footpath that led across the churchyard.</p>
-
-<p>From these and other anecdotes that followed, the crusader appeared to
-be the favourite hero of ghost stories throughout the vicinity. His
-picture which hung up in the hall, was thought by the servants to have
-something supernatural about it; for they remarked that, in whatever
-part of the hall you went, the eyes of the warrior were still fixed on
-you. The old porter’s wife, too, at the lodge, who had been born and
-brought up in the family, and was a great gossip among the
-maid-servants, affirmed that in her young days she had often heard say,
-that on Midsummer eve, when it was well known all kinds of ghosts,
-goblins, and fairies become visible and walk abroad, the crusader used
-to mount his horse, come down from his picture, ride about the house,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_22" id="page_22">{22}</a></span>
-down the avenue, and so to the church to visit the tomb; on which
-occasion the church door most civilly swung open of itself; not that he
-needed it; for he rode through closed gates and even stone walls, and
-had been seen by one of the dairymaids to pass between two bars of the
-great park gate, making himself as thin as a sheet of paper.</p>
-
-<p>All these superstitions I found had been very much countenanced by the
-squire, who, though not superstitious himself, was very fond of seeing
-others so. He listened to every goblin tale of the neighbouring gossips
-with infinite gravity, and held the porter’s wife in high favour on
-account of her talent for the marvellous. He was himself a great reader
-of old legends and romances, and often lamented that he could not
-believe in them; for a superstitious person, he thought, must live in a
-kind of fairy land.</p>
-
-<p>Whilst we were all attention to the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_23" id="page_23">{23}</a></span> parson’s stories, our ears were
-suddenly assailed by a burst of heterogeneous sounds from the hall, in
-which were mingled something like the clang of rude minstrelsy, with the
-uproar of many small voices and girlish laughter. The door suddenly flew
-open, and a train came trooping into the room, that might almost have
-been mistaken for the breaking-up of the court of Fairy. That
-indefatigable spirit, Master Simon, in the faithful discharge of his
-duties as Lord of Misrule, had conceived the idea of a Christmas mummery
-or masking; and having called in to his assistance the Oxonian and the
-young officer, who were equally ripe for anything that should occasion
-romping and merriment, they had carried it into instant effect. The old
-housekeeper had been consulted; the antique clothes-presses and
-wardrobes rummaged, and made to yield up the relics of finery that had
-not seen the light for sev<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_24" id="page_24">{24}</a></span>eral generations; the younger part of the
-company had been privately convened from the parlour and hall, and the
-whole had been bedizened out, into a burlesque imitation of an antique
-mask.</p>
-
-<p>Master Simon led the van, as “Ancient Christmas,” quaintly apparelled in
-a ruff, a short cloak, which had very much the aspect of one of the old
-housekeeper’s petticoats, and a hat that might have served for a village
-steeple, and must indubitably have figured in the days of the
-Covenanters. From under this his nose curved boldly forth, flushed with
-a frostbitten bloom, that seemed the very trophy of a December blast. He
-was accompanied by the blue-eyed romp, dished up as “Dame Mince Pie,” in
-the venerable magnificence of a faded brocade, long stomacher, peaked
-hat, and high-heeled shoes. The young officer appeared as Robin Hood, in
-a sporting dress of Kendal green, and a foraging cap with a gold
-tassel.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_25" id="page_25">{25}</a></span></p>
-
-<p>The costume, to be sure, did not bear testimony to deep research, and
-there was an evident eye to the picturesque, natural to a young gallant
-in the presence of his mistress. The fair Julia hung on his arm in a
-pretty rustic dress, as “Maid Marian.” The rest of the train had been
-metamorphosed in various ways; the girls trussed up in the finery of the
-ancient belles of the Bracebridge line, and the striplings bewhiskered
-with burnt cork, and gravely clad in broad skirts, hanging sleeves, and
-full-bottomed wigs, to represent the character of Roast Beef, Plum
-Pudding, and other worthies celebrated in ancient maskings. The whole
-was under the control of the Oxonian, in the appropriate character of
-Misrule; and I observed that he exercised rather a mischievous sway with
-his wand over the smaller personages of the pageant.</p>
-
-<p>The irruption of this motley crew, with beat of drum, according to
-ancient<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_26" id="page_26">{26}</a></span> custom, was the consummation of uproar and merriment. Master
-Simon covered himself with glory by the stateliness with which, as
-Ancient Christmas, he walked a minuet with the peerless, though
-giggling, Dame Mince Pie. It was followed by a dance of all the
-characters, which, from its medley of costumes, seemed as though the old
-family portraits had skipped down from their frames to join in the
-sport. Different centuries were figuring at cross hands and right and
-left; the dark ages were cutting pirouettes and rigadoons; and the days
-of Queen Bess jiggling merrily down the middle, through a line of
-succeeding generations.</p>
-
-<p>The worthy squire contemplated these fantastic sports, and this
-resurrection of his old wardrobe, with the simple relish of childish
-delight. He stood chuckling and rubbing his hands, and scarcely hearing
-a word the parson said, notwithstanding that the latter was discoursing
-most<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_27" id="page_27">{27}</a></span> authentically on the ancient and stately dance at the Paon, or
-peacock, from which he conceived the minuet to be derived. For my part I
-was in a continual excitement, from the varied scenes of whim and
-innocent gaiety passing before me. It was inspiring to me to see
-wild-eyed frolic and warm-hearted hospitality breaking out from among
-the chills and glooms of winter, and old age throwing off his apathy,
-and catching once more the freshness of youthful enjoyment. I felt also
-an interest in the scene, from the consideration that these fleeting
-customs were posting fast into oblivion, and that this was, perhaps, the
-only family in England in which the whole of them were still
-punctiliously observed. There was a quaintness, too, mingled with all
-this revelry, that gave it a peculiar zest: it was suited to the time
-and place; and as the old manor-house almost reeled with mirth and
-wassail, it seemed echoing back the joviality of long departed years.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_28" id="page_28">{28}</a></span></p>
-
-<p>But enough of Christmas and its gambols; it is time for me to pause in
-this garrulity. Methinks I hear the questions asked by my grave readers,
-“To what purpose is all this&mdash;how is the world to be made wiser by this
-talk?” Alas! is there not wisdom enough extant for the instruction of
-the world? And if not, are there not thousands of abler pens labouring
-for its improvement!&mdash;It is so much pleasanter to please than to
-instruct&mdash;to play the companion rather than the preceptor.</p>
-
-<p>What, after all, is the mite of wisdom that I could throw into the mass
-of knowledge; or how am I sure that my sagest deductions may be safe
-guides for the opinion of others? But in writing to amuse, if I fail,
-the only evil is in my own disappointment. If, however, I can by any
-lucky chance, in these days of evil, rub out one wrinkle from the brow
-of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_29" id="page_29">{29}</a></span> moment of sorrow; if I can
-now and then penetrate through the gathering film of misanthropy, prompt
-a benevolent view of human nature, and make my reader more in good
-humour with his fellow-beings and himself, surely, surely, I shall not
-then have written entirely in vain.</p>
-
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