EVENT SETTING
The city streets are described as the setting for Christmas morning, with people making music by scraping snow and engaging in festive activities.
CITY STREETS
and they stood in the city streets on Christmas morning, where (for the weather was severe) the people made a rough, but brisk and not unpleasant kind of music, in scraping the snow from the pavement in front of their dwellings, and from the tops of their houses...