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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Take a Christmas pudding, for instance. Flour and suet, and there's an end if you depend on the farmer; just an ordinary dumpling. Whereas the sailor brings the figs, the currants, the candied peel, the chopped almonds, the brandy all the ingredients that make it Christmassy." "And then the farmer takes an' eats it. Aw, believe me, mistress, Stay-at-home fares best in this world!"
Every other shop window had a holly wreath hung in it, and when the doors were opened those spicy Christmassy smells of green hemlock and pine came gushing out in my face. So far as I could tell, everybody in New York except me was buying something for his or her or some other body's Christmas. It was a tolerably lonesome sensation. I walked two blocks, loitering sometimes in front of a store.
Thus at each stoppage Scott was called upon to decide how long it was likely to last. Christmas Day came with the ice still surrounding the ship, but although the scene was 'altogether too Christmassy, a most merry evening was spent. For five hours the officers sat round the table and sang lustily, each one of them having to contribute two songs to the entertainment.
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