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OUR HOLIDAYS.
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grown-up people’s wildest dreams of mirth, and the children’s realization of fun and frolic. Crowds of maskers throng the streets from an early hour, and are finally marshalled in the procession of his Majesty Rex, the King of the Carnival, and form the rear-guard of that most imposing display, which has of late years been grand, artistic, elegant, refined, and gorgeous beyond description; the subjects chosen for illustration being the conceptions of genius, embellished by art,