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Christmas Come But Once A Year
Christmas Come But Once A Year
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The Carol--"Tidings of Comfort and Joy!" 1
The Waits serenading Victoria and Albert Villas 5
Christmas Eve--The Market--Brown buying Holly 13
Christmas Dinners--Good Living, at least, Once a Year 18
The Pudding, as it ought to have appeared 23
Bringing in the Yule-log 25
Boxing-day--The Beadle offended 28
The Pantomime--"Here we are again!" 34
The Compliments of the Season (a cold) 40
The Quadrille--Cavalier seul 57
The Stair-case--Captain de Camp and the Wall-flower 63
Forfeits--The Double Toilet 80
The Christmas Tree--Presentation of Fruit 83
Mummery--Trick of the Old Dame 84
Kitchen Conversation
Very cold, very bleak; the thermometer and snow are falling fast; eggs
and suet are rising faster; everything at this season is "prized," and
everybody apprizes everybody else of the good they wish them,--"A MERRY
CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!" Even the shivering caroller, for "it is
a poor heart that never rejoices," is yelling forth the "tidings of
comfort and joy." The snow that descends, making park and common
alike--topping palace and pigsty, now crowns the semi-detached villas,
Victoria and Albert. They were erected from the designs of John Brown,
Esq. and his architect (or builder), and are considered a fine specimen
of compo-cockney-gothic, in which the constructor has made the most of
his materials; for, to save digging, he sank the foundation in an
evacuated pond, and, as an antidote to damp, used wood with the
dry-rot--the little remaining moisture being pumped out daily by the
domestics. The floors are delightfully springy, having cracks to
precipitate the dirt, and are sloped towards the doorways, so that the
furniture is perpetually trying to walk out of the rooms; but those
apertures are ingeniously planned to prevent the evil--the doors
obstinately refusing to open at all, without force. That the whole may
not appear too light, few windows are introduced. By casual observers
the Victoria and Albert would be taken for one--so united are they;
and had we not seen the parting division, we should have doubted also.
Of the entrance lodges, we have noticed one of the chimneys smoking
periodically; and, from the mollient white vapour issuing over the
window at such times, presume Victoria is washing, whilst Albert is
locked up and doing nothing.
The Waits serenading Victoria and Albert Villas 5
Christmas Eve--The Market--Brown buying Holly 13
Christmas Dinners--Good Living, at least, Once a Year 18
The Pudding, as it ought to have appeared 23
Bringing in the Yule-log 25
Boxing-day--The Beadle offended 28
The Pantomime--"Here we are again!" 34
The Compliments of the Season (a cold) 40
The Quadrille--Cavalier seul 57
The Stair-case--Captain de Camp and the Wall-flower 63
Forfeits--The Double Toilet 80
The Christmas Tree--Presentation of Fruit 83
Mummery--Trick of the Old Dame 84
Kitchen Conversation
Very cold, very bleak; the thermometer and snow are falling fast; eggs
and suet are rising faster; everything at this season is "prized," and
everybody apprizes everybody else of the good they wish them,--"A MERRY
CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!" Even the shivering caroller, for "it is
a poor heart that never rejoices," is yelling forth the "tidings of
comfort and joy." The snow that descends, making park and common
alike--topping palace and pigsty, now crowns the semi-detached villas,
Victoria and Albert. They were erected from the designs of John Brown,
Esq. and his architect (or builder), and are considered a fine specimen
of compo-cockney-gothic, in which the constructor has made the most of
his materials; for, to save digging, he sank the foundation in an
evacuated pond, and, as an antidote to damp, used wood with the
dry-rot--the little remaining moisture being pumped out daily by the
domestics. The floors are delightfully springy, having cracks to
precipitate the dirt, and are sloped towards the doorways, so that the
furniture is perpetually trying to walk out of the rooms; but those
apertures are ingeniously planned to prevent the evil--the doors
obstinately refusing to open at all, without force. That the whole may
not appear too light, few windows are introduced. By casual observers
the Victoria and Albert would be taken for one--so united are they;
and had we not seen the parting division, we should have doubted also.
Of the entrance lodges, we have noticed one of the chimneys smoking
periodically; and, from the mollient white vapour issuing over the
window at such times, presume Victoria is washing, whilst Albert is
locked up and doing nothing.
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