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Funds sustain housing and community initiatives on Lesvos, a community centre near Thessaloniki, a sports centre in Athens, and NGO emergency interventions across Thessaloniki, Lesvos, and Samos, alongside regular food and medical support. 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 \nEach serving man,with dish in hand,  \nMarched boldly up,like our train band,  \nPresented and away.  \nTHE CHRISTMAS DINNER  \nThe dinner was served up in the great hall,where the Squire always held his Christmasbanquet.A blazing,crackling fire of logshad been heaped on to warm the spaciousapartment,and the flame went sparklingand wreathing up the wide-mouthed chim-ney.The great picture of the crusader andhis white horse had been profusely decoratedwith greens for the occasion,and holly andivy had likewise been wreathed round thehelmet and weapons on the opposite wall,which I understood were the arms of thesame warrior.I must own,by the by,I hadstrong doubts about the authenticity of thepainting and armour as having belonged tothe crusader,they certainly having the stampof more recent days;but I was told that thepainting had becn so considered time outof mind,and that,as to the armour,it hadbeen found in a lumber room and clevatedto its present situation by the Squire,who atonce determined it to be the armour of the  \nTHE CHRISTMAS DINNER  \nfamily hero;and as he was absolute author-ity on all such subjects in his own household,the matter had passed into current accepta-tion.A sideboard was set out just under thischivalric trophy,on which was a display ofplate that might have vied (at least in vari-ety)with Belshazar's parade of the vesselsof the temple-'fagons,cans,cups,beakers,goblets,basins,and ewers*-the gorgeousutensils of good companionship that hadgradually accumulated through many gen-erations of jovial housekeepers.Before thesestood the two Yule candles beaming like twostars of the first magnitude;other lights weredistributed in branches,and the whole arrayglittered like a firmament of silver.  \nWe were ushered into this banqucting scenewith the sound of minstrelsy,the old harperbeing seated on a stool beside the fireplace andtwanging his instrument with a vast deal morepower than melody.Never did Christmas boarddisplay a more goodly and gracious assemblage  \nTHE CHRISTMAS DINNER  \nof countenances:those who were not handsomewere,at least,happy,and happiness is a rareimprover of your hard-favoured visage.I alwaysconsider an old English family as well worthstudying as a collection of Holbein's portraitsor Albert Durer's prints.There is much anti-quarian lore to be acquired,much knowledgeof the physiognomies of former times.Perhapsit may be from having continually before theireyes those rows of old family portraits,withwhich the mansions of this country are stocked;certain it is that the quaint features of antiquityare often most faithfully perpetuated in theseancient lines,and I have traced an old familynose through a whole picture gallery,legitim-ately handed down from generation to gener-ation,almost from the time of the Conquest.Something of the kind was to be observed inthe worthy company around me.Many of theirfaces had evid","cbCaigjWmimBRSjF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigjWmimBRSjF","pdf",1427066,42,"English","# The Christmas Dinner\n## Charitable mission and funding\n## Setting the scene in the great hall\n## The boar’s head ceremony\n## Carols and minstrelsy","[{\"question\":\"What does the Three Peas charity support according to the text?\",\"answer\":\"It supports people who fled war and/or persecution seeking refuge and/or asylum in Europe, with specific housing, community, sports, and emergency interventions in Greece.\"},{\"question\":\"Where are Three Peas activities mainly carried out?\",\"answer\":\"The text states they are mostly active in Greece.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the Christmas dinner ceremony presented in the excerpt?\",\"answer\":\"The dinner unfolds in the great hall with a blazing fire, decorated rooms, grace, minstrelsy, and the formal arrival and serving of an enormous pig’s head with accompanying song and ritual.\"}]","THE CHRISTMAS DINNER - read online free | PDF",1789961088,65]