Old Christmas

By Washington Irving

Subjects: Stoffwechsel, Pathophysiology, Polyamines in the body, American Christmas stories, Christmas, Aufsatzsammlung, Carcinogenesis, Metabolism, Christmas stories, Polyamines, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Polyamine, Neoplasms, Krebs, Classic Literature, Kongress

Description: There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.