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The Story of Christ-tide

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By John Ashton.
Copperplate Etching of
"The Wassail Song," by
Arthur C. Behrend.

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London: published by the Leadenhall

Press, Ltd., 50 Leadenhall Street;

Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent

& Co., Ltd. New York: Charles

Scribner's Sons, 153–157 Fifth Avenue.

[1894]

TO THE READER

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I do not craue mo thankes to haue, than geuen to me all ready be; but this is all, to such as shall peruse this booke. That, for my sake, they gently take what ere they finde against their minde, when he, or she, shal minded be therein to looke. Tusser.

PREFACE

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It is with a view of preserving the memory of Christmas that I have written this book.

In it the reader will find its History, Legends, Folk-lore, Customs, and Carols—in fact, an epitome of Old Christ-tide, forming a volume which, it is hoped, will be found full of interest.

JOHN ASHTON.