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Let us end with a song for the children: O the big red sun, And the wide white world, And the nursery window Mother-of-pearled; And the houses all In hoods of snow, And the mince-pies, And the mistletoe; And Christmas pudding, And berries red, And stockings hung At the foot of the bed; And carol-singers, And nothing but play O baby, this is Christmas Day!
The zampognari are in fact as much of a national institution with the Neapolitans at Christmastide as are the waits or carol-singers in our own country, so that to the majority of these people Natale senza zampogna e cennamella would seem no true Christmas at all.
The little Angela, within the arms that held her, murmured, "It's the gipsies, isn't it, mother?" "No, darling. The gipsies have gone. It's the carol-singers, singing because Jesus was born." "But, mother ... it is the gipsies, isn't it?... 'Cos look..." "Look where?" "At Aunt Rachel, mother ... The gipsy woman wouldn't go without her little baby, would she?" "No, she wouldn't do that."
About the carol-singers she was a little irritable. They had woken her it seemed from a very delightful sleep, and she considered the whole affair "savoured of Paganism." And then Peter found suddenly that he didn't wish to talk about the carol-singers at all because the things that he felt about them were, in some curious way, not the things that he could say to Mrs. Trussit.
Other folk, grown folk, sat with Aunt Rachel that evening; but the old walnut chair did not move upon its rockers. There was merry talk, but Aunt Rachel took no part in it. The board was spread with ale and cheese and spiced loaf for the carol-singers; and the time drew near for their coming.
'You 've had to dry Miss Abingdon's tears, and listen to Canon Wrottesley reading aloud, and you have had to be hearty to carol-singers and to waft holly-berries in the faces of mothers. Why don't you throw something at me when I come to your room in the middle of the night as cross as a bear with a sore head, and begin to grumble at you? This remark Jane considered serious.
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