Kriss Kringle in Camp Portrays Civil War Humor
A Baltimore Telegram essay recalls humorous scenes from the Civil War on both sides. Anecdotes range from Confederate sentinels and Alabama officers to Northern gibes, with wry dialogue about lines, courage, and casual cruelty. War memories mix wit with melancholy, ending in reflections on resilience and sunlit moments amid hardship.
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Dryden
George Savage
Baltimore Telegram
Lord Bacon
Authern
Union
Two of Twenty Five Agree On Marriage
An anxious father urges his bashful daughter to marry a sober mature man, not a flashy suitor. She softly replies that two of twenty five would be better, favoring a wiser choice with age.
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Sali
Otey Battery
Clasus
Chile
Clemaséa
Angis
Pompey
Dimar
Land of Heaven
Ray
Finn
Massa Lawa
Dinah's Christmas and Dimar's Prayer in Dialect Verse
A long dialect poem blocks Dinah awaiting Christmas as a child returns home from Urup. The volume interleaves scenes of family, servants, and a looming steamer disaster, ending with the speaker praying for family safety and salvation in a fragile, hopeful Christmas mood.
Pagan Yule customs woven into Christmas tradition
The text recounts Teutonic Yule practices such as mistletoe and greenery to symbolize solar return and new life. It notes the church adopted these pagan customs at Christmas, reinterpreting them to celebrate Christ’s nativity and the “sun of righteousness,” while criticizing the Long Parliament’s abolition of Christmas observance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvan Opitita
Pictures by the Firelight in a Family Christmas
A cozy firelight scene shows Bunn and Beckie, siblings aged about eight and younger, imagining Christmas visions in the grate as snow outside hints at a festive mood. Their parents return from shopping to find the children asleep, the warm glow framing their faces and prompting a parent’s comment to frame the moment for bed.
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Ice King
Bunn
Beckie
Santa Claus
Bunnt
Mamma
St. Nicholas
Christmas Visions and memory bells in a festive canvas
A nostalgic meditation on Christmas as remembered joys and sorrows. The piece contrasts bright scenes of family gatherings, gifts, and bounty with faded, wistful recollections of loss and longing, using vivid imagery of mistletoe, holly, and imagined luxury against desolate quiet moments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Rosie
Murray Hill
Christmas Days in England and the Puritan Proscriptions
A Victorian-era overview of Christmas history in England from the Stuart era through the Commonwealth to the Restoration. It notes royal proclamations restricting celebrations, John Evelyn’s diary entry, parliamentary debates on observing December 25, and the revival of customs after Charles II, including wassail and gifts.
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England
London
James I
James
Charles L
Westminster
John Evelyn
Cromwn
Mathowa
Robinson
Packer
Needham
Charles LI
Charles II
Pepys
A Christmas Eve Tale of Gabriel Grub the Sexton
A Dickensian Christmas tale follows Gabriel Grub, a morose sexton who drinks alone in a churchyard on Christmas Eve. He encounters goblins in a frost bound cavern who reveal the consequences of gloom and pride, teaching him a stern moral about joy, labor, and repentance.
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Gabriel Grub
Sexton
Charles Dickens
Gabriel
Jim
Gabriel Yuh
Excise
Goblins
Bond Street
Mr. Grub
Spoetry
The Christmas Tree Song and Holiday Echoes
A mosaic of verse and carol fragments celebrates Christmas and holiday memories. It weaves Thackeray style ballads, George Withers echoes, and scenes of family hearths, manger reveries, and merry revelry. Notable voices include Christaes and Charles Sprague, with references to Christmas night, old trees, and nostalgic yuletide warmth.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Christaes
Man argues fare for St Paul hack ride to Sixteenth Street
A passenger from Minneapolis to Milwaukee balks at a one dollar fare, offering ten cents to go to Sixteenth and Chestnut. The hackman laments railroad competition and notes trains ruin the hack business while promising safe passage at any risk.
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Peck
St. Paul
Hackman
Sixteenth
Chestnut Streets
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Sixteenth Street
Michigan
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