So 'a Merrie Christmas' to you, And a Happy, Happy Year!"

" "And, how came you to let him pass the gate, against orders?" "Well, and it is aboot the orders of the priesthood, that he so often preaches, and seeing him in the white gairment, and knowing ye've so many fast-days, and Christmas', in the kirk o' England, I fancied it might be a bit matter

If I had my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart!

" "You can thank Captain Yorke for putting the 'real English Christmas' into her head; there's a fine Tory for you, Betty.