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PRINTED FOR J. G. & F. RIVINGTON,
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD,
AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL.
1
As I hope there are many among you, who may have a
comfortable fire-side, around which to assemble your
families on the coming New Year's day, I shall endeavour
to contribute my mite to your enjoyment of it, by giving
you a short account of two brothers, who on the first day
of the year 1834 were, with their parents and myself,
seated round a neat hearth and good fire, to pass the
evening after the labour of the day. It had always been
the custom with this family so to spend this return of the
year; and one of the indulgences of it was a mug of spiced
home-brewed ale. As an old friend, I had, for many