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Then some time between Christmas and New-Year came the Christmas pantomime at the Tivoli, with its bewildering array of scantily clad fairies and dashing Amazons and languishing princes in pale-blue tights; to say nothing of the Queen Charlottes consumed between acts through faintly yellow straws. How Claire would mark off each day on the calendar which brought her nearer to this triumph!
"'Will knowledge then suffice, New-year? I cried, And e'en the question into silence died: The answer came, 'Nay, but remember, too, God's will to do. "Once more I asked: 'Is there no more to tell? And once again the answer sweetly fell, 'Yes, this one thing all other things above: God's will to love." "Do all things without murmurings and disputings." Phil. 2:14.
I suppose most middle-aged people, when they receive the ordinary kind wish at New-Year's time of a Happy New-Year, feel that happy is not quite the word; and feel that, too, though well aware that they have abundant reason for gratitude to a kind Providence. It is not here that we shall ever be happy, that is, completely and perfectly happy. Something will always be coming to worry and distress.
Roman women suffered no first day of May pass without celebrating the festival of Bona Dea; and two thousand years later, girls who know as little of the manners and customs of ancient Italy, as of the municipal regulations of fabulous "Manoa," lie down to sleep on the last day of April, and kissing the fond, maternal face that bends above their pillows, eagerly repeat: "You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear: To- morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad new-year; Of all the glad new-year, mother, the maddest, merriest day, For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother; I'm to be Queen o' the May."
His critical observations, happily blending with the historical review, shed a revealing light upon this famous ruler and her reign. It is January, 1744, and the commandant of Stettin, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst zu Dornburg, is keeping New-Year festivities at his castle of Zerbst, when suddenly couriers from Berlin, couriers from St. Petersburg, throw everyone into wild commotion.
Wayworn Travellers An Increase of the Dorion Family. A Camp of Shoshonies. A New-Year Festival Among the Snakes. A Wintry March Through the Mountains. A Sunny Prospect, and Milder Climate. Indian Horse-Tracks. Grassy Valleys. A Camp of Sciatogas. Joy of the Travellers.-Dangers of Abundance. Habits of the Sciatogas. Fate of Carriere. The Umatilla. Arrival at the Banks of the Columbia.
After the New-Year the school filled up with big boys, some of whom had returned with the idea of joining the preparatory class for college, which the minister had persuaded John Craven to organize. Shinny, however, became the absorbing interest for all the boys, both big and little.
And Master Negligent, who is alwaies in an Alehouse, and seldom to be found in his Counting-house or at the Change, thinks it is abundance too early in July, so much as to look upon the reckoning of last New-year, much less to pay it.
"Well met, Goldsmith," he said in his round, well-trained voice, "I would make a new-year gift to the lady here, and I am told that you have plate-wares of the best; gold cups and jewels of rich and rare design, stamped all of them with the image of the sun which one would wish to remember on such a day as this.
I think, after all, it would be better, far better, to enclose your letter to me to our friend Becke. I cannot tell you what friends Cannabich and Raaff have been to me. Now farewell, my kindest and most beloved father! Write to me soon. A happy new-year! More I cannot bring myself to write to-day.
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