Advent & Christmas

Day 3 of 12 Days of Christmas: French Hens

What happens to me when I cross the Piscataqua and plunge rapidly into Maine at a cost of seventy-five cents in tolls? I cannot describe it. I do not ordinarily spy a partridge in a pear tree, or three French hens, but I do have the sensation of having received a gift from a true […]

Day 2 of 12 Days of Christmas: Two Turtledoves

The winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land. — Song of Solomon Time will work what no man knowethTime doth us the subject proveWith time still affection growethTo the faithful turtledove.— […]

Day 1 of 12 Days of Christmas: Partridge Meditation

On Partridges What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.— Henry David Thoreau If the partridge didn’t call at […]

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