A CMAS StORY

    t ing, or any ot aforesaid, every person so offending so ty.

    Statute enacted by t of

    Massacts, May 1659, repealed 1681

    t before Cmas. Silent nig. tc. etc. etc.; let traditional anticipatory magic of Cmas Eve, and t it.

    Forget it. Even if te moon above Boston Bay ensures t all is calm, all is brigmas as suc noer dream.

    (Dream, t uncensorable state. t if they could.)

    At t time, for alking about a long time ago, about ter ures on tinent t  lay under ter nor more pure tentions.

    to e more largely; to inscribe the name of God.

    And t omorro t her day.

    For t none are holidays.

    Ne turned over; Old England is ty linen t  -- did t recently ual integrity, ters ogetoo orgiastic a fashion.

    Noticularly radical about t, given tans basic premises. Anyone can see at a glance t a Maypole, proudly erect upon trument. t of Cotton Mation reel. No. test genius of tans lay in ty to sniff out a pagan survival in, say, tom of decorating a ive season; tuff of ws would be made!

    And taste for try, graven images! -- is less subtle t at tive season itself. It ivity of it t irked them.

    Nevert assuredly is a gross and ice, to ing, drunkenness, and lewd displays of mumming and masquerading.

    e  none of t filthis new place.

    No, thank you.

    As midnigtle in to tablisom of over sixteen ers able; time, tily refrained from idolatry and .

    Boston Bay, calm as milk, black as ink,