I must tell you about the Christmas dinner. It was served in the hall, on the big oak table that stood before the fire.
When dinner was ready they did not ring a bell, but the cook knocked three times with his rolling-pin on the door.
Two men stood in the hall, and when they heard the three knocks they sounded their trumpets, the doors were opened, and all the family marched in to dinner.
I do not know just what they had to eat, but I know they had roast goose, and a plum pudding just as you do at Christmas time.
After dinner the children played games. And what do you think they played? First they played “Puss-puss-in-the-corner,” and then “Blind-man’s-buff.”
Isn’t it strange that Great-Great-Grandma should have played the very games you play, on that Christmas night more than two hundred years ago?
THE WHIPPING BOY
Many years ago there was a little boy living in England whose name was Edward. Of course there have been many boys in England by the name of Edward, but they are not so well known as this boy, for he was the son of a king.