Myths and Legends of Christmastide

Project Gutenberg's Myths and Legends of Christmastide, by Bertha F. Herrick This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Myths and Legends of Christmastide Author: Bertha F. Herrick Release Date: December 26, 2007 [EBook #24044] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF CHRISTMASTIDE *** Produced by Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) M YTHS AND L EGENDS OF C HRISTMASTIDE BY BERTHA F. HERRICK SAN FRANCISCO PRINTED BY THE STANLEY-TAYLOR COMPANY 1 9 0 1 THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN ONE OF THE CHRISTMAS EDITIONS OF THE San Francisco Chronicle AND IS NOW REPRINTED by permission from that journal. [3] M YTHS AND L EGENDS OF C HRISTMASTIDE “Lo! now is come our joyful'st feast, Let every man be jolly. Each room with ivy leaves is drest, And every post with holly. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning; Their ovens they with bak't meats choke, And all their spits are turning.