I Just Can't Get Christmas-ish

TIME was, in days of yore, and I was warmed by the Gulp Stream, when I could give you as loud a Merry Christmas as the next fellow and maybe something about New Year's too, but even then it was more of a swish than a wish and I really didn't give a hoot-hoot. But now since AA and all these changes (I have taken to black clothes and try to look saintly) I have become a little perturbed about my attitude to Christmas. . . now that the blessed season is open.