Peter Parley's Annual, 1855: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People

Peter Parley's Annual, 1855: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People

Holiday faces! Aye, they are bright, shining, and beautiful as dewdrops glistening in the mornings splendourstars sparkling in a clear midnight skyflowers lit up by the summers sun. It makes the heart of poor old Peter Parley glad when he sees themwhether they belong to young or old, to rich or to poor, it is one of my chief delights. I do assure you, my young friends, that a good deal of my parleying has to do with Holiday Faces. I see them again and again, year after year, and they make me feel young again; and, like the old rustic of the Suffolk poet, Bloomfield, I am often ready[viii] to jump with joy when I see the cabs and coaches, post-chaises and omnibuses, crowded, inside and outside, with school children, going home for the Holidays. Old as I am growing, I still feel that I belong to the order of light hearts and merry looksto the heraldry of smiling facesand my escutcheon is charged with nods and becks, and wreathed smiles. Hurrah, then, for the Holidays, say I! Be cheerful, my young friendsnot more for the sake of being merry, than for the sake of being serious again at the proper time. Unbend the bow and loosen the string, that both string and bow may have more force when again brought into action! Make the air ring then, I say, with the Holiday Cheer of Merry Christmas time! Sing, and skip, and dance, and play, like lambkins by the hill side, and let love reign in all your hearts, a perpetual sunshine, from year to year, and from youth to age, until you are as old as your ever sincere And Affectionate Friend, ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67967
Author: Martin, William
Release Date: May 1, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Evans and Dickerson
Publication Date: 1855
Publisher Country: United States

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Editor: Martin, William, 1801-1867