Selections From the Sketch-book
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Three puddings in a pule ; Crack nuts and cry ule ! " 62 IRVING.
ity, breaking through the chills of ceremony and selfishness, and thawing every heart into a flow. He pointed with pleasure to the indications of good cheer reeking from the chimneys of the comfortable farmhouses and low thatched cottages. " I love," said he, " to see this day well kept by rich and poor. It is a great thing to have one day in the year, at least, when you are sure of being welcome wherever you go, and of having, as... it were, the world all thrown open to you ; and I am almost dis- posed to join with Poor Robin, in his malediction on every churl- ish enemy to this honest festival : — " ' Those who at Christmas do repine, And would fain hence dispatch him, May they with old Duke Humphry dine, Or else may Squire Ketch 1 catch 'em.' " The Squire went on to lament the deplorable decay of the games and amusements which were once prevalent at this season among the lower orders, and countenanced by the higher, when the old halls of castles and manor-houses were thrown open at daylight, when the tables were covered with brawn and beef and humming ale, when the harp and the carol resounded all day long, and when rich and poor were alike welcome to enter and make merry.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Three puddings in a pule ; Crack nuts and cry ule ! " 62 IRVING.
ity, breaking through the chills of ceremony and selfishness, and thawing every heart into a flow. He pointed with pleasure to the indications of good cheer reeking from the chimneys of the comfortable farmhouses and low thatched cottages. " I love," said he, " to see this day well kept by rich and poor. It is a great thing to have one day in the year, at least, when you are sure of being welcome wherever you go, and of having, as... it were, the world all thrown open to you ; and I am almost dis- posed to join with Poor Robin, in his malediction on every churl- ish enemy to this honest festival : — " ' Those who at Christmas do repine, And would fain hence dispatch him, May they with old Duke Humphry dine, Or else may Squire Ketch 1 catch 'em.' " The Squire went on to lament the deplorable decay of the games and amusements which were once prevalent at this season among the lower orders, and countenanced by the higher, when the old halls of castles and manor-houses were thrown open at daylight, when the tables were covered with brawn and beef and humming ale, when the harp and the carol resounded all day long, and when rich and poor were alike welcome to enter and make merry.
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