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• The character Scabbard remarks, " Men are grown so . . . stingy, now-a-days, that there is scarce One, in ten Parishes, makes any House-keeping . . . . Squire Christmas . . . keeps a good House, or else I do not know of One besides . " When invited to spend Christmas with the squire, he comments " I will . . . else I shall forget Christmas, for aught I see . " Similar opinions were expressed in " Round About Our Coal Fire . . . with some curious Memories of Old Father Christmas; Shewing what Hospitality was in former Times, and how little there remains of it at present " ( 1734, reprinted with Father Christmas subtitle 1796 ).