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Show excuse for ceasing work The Hussion working people have jfays K'lrcd upon Christmas as an rose for ceasing all work for n some- tat lengthy period sometimes for a oth. Rcfore the recent revolution Solcnda" was the celebration on fJfcrUtinns eve, when the peasants Hatred about tho houses of tho no- 'iang carols nnd scrambled for tho tossed to them from the win- ". Tlien cnino n great masquerade, ' peasants of all nges dressed jteuclvci to represent animals, tho being to perpetuate the memory U lowliness of the Saviour's birth "ae stable. |