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"Mary said to Cherry Tree, 'Bow down to my knee, That I may pluck cherries For my Babe and me." the carollers sang; and "Now listen, darling," the one who held Angela murmured.... "The uppermost spray then Bowed down to her knee; 'Thus you may see, Joseph, These cherries are for me. "'O, eat your cherries, Mary, Give them your Babe now; O, eat your cherries, Mary, That grew upon the bough."
"Ay, ay, my sonny; every lad has said that in his time." They had now again reached the precincts of Mr. Shiner's, but hearing nobody in that direction, one or two went across to the schoolhouse. A light was still burning in the bedroom, and though the blind was down, the window had been slightly opened, as if to admit the distant notes of the carollers to the ears of the occupant of the room.
The guise-dancers paraded it through the streets until midnight, when they gave it over to the carollers, who fed it with buckets; and as the poor machine was but little damaged, brisk jets of water were made to salute the citizens' windows simultaneously with the season's holy songs.
They were different from everybody else, and their ways were so much more amusing and charming than the ordinary stereotyped usages of society. Hilliard agreed with fervour, and found an additional proof of the assertion as, one by one, a picturesque band of carollers entered the room by the farthest door and took up their position in a semicircle facing the audience.
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