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In the third quarter of the nineteenth century, it fell to my lot to write an article on Christmas, its customs and festivities. And, although I sought in vain for a chronological account of the festival, I discovered many interesting details of its observances dispersed in the works of various authors; and, while I found that some of its greater celebrations marked important epochs in our national history, I saw, also, that the successive celebrations of Christmas during nineteen centuries were important links in the chain of historical Christian evidences. I became enamoured of the subject, for, in addition to historical interest, there is the. | Christmas Its Origin and Associations by 1 CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. Christmas Its Origin and Associations by William Francis Dawson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Christmas Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries Christmas Its Origin and Associations by 2 Author William Francis Dawson Release Date July 10 2007 eBook 22042 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHRISTMAS ITS ORIGIN AND ASSOCIATIONS E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti Turgut Dincer and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team http Note Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See or http dirs 2 2 0 4 22042 22042-h or http dirs 2 2 0 4 22042 Transcriber s note In this text a character with macron is represented as x . Superscripted characters are enclosed by curly brackets and preceed by a caret character example A th . Illustration BRINGING IN THE YULE LOG. Frontispiece. CHRISTMAS ITS ORIGIN AND ASSOCIATIONS TOGETHER WITH ITS HISTORICAL EVENTS AND FESTIVE CELEBRATIONS DURING NINETEEN CENTURIES DEPICTING BY PEN AND PENCIL MEMORABLE CELEBRATIONS STATELY MEETINGS OF EARLY KINGS REMARKABLE EVENTS ROMANTIC EPISODES BRAVE DEEDS PICTURESQUE CUSTOMS TIME-HONOURED SPORTS ROYAL CHRISTMASES CORONATIONS AND ROYAL MARRIAGES CHIVALRIC FEATS COURT BANQUETINGS AND REVELLINGS CHRISTMAS AT THE COLLEGES AND THE INNS OF