{"product_id":"2940012992727","title":"Christmas Come But Once A Year","description":"The Carol--\"Tidings of Comfort and Joy!\"                         1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Waits serenading Victoria and Albert Villas                  5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristmas Eve--The Market--Brown buying Holly                   13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristmas Dinners--Good Living, at least, Once a Year           18\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Pudding, as it ought to have appeared                       23\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing in the Yule-log                                        25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoxing-day--The Beadle offended                                 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Pantomime--\"Here we are again!\"                             34\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Compliments of the Season (a cold)                          40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Quadrille--Cavalier seul                                    57\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Stair-case--Captain de Camp and the Wall-flower             63\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForfeits--The Double Toilet                                     80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Christmas Tree--Presentation of Fruit                       83\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMummery--Trick of the Old Dame                                  84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKitchen Conversation                                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVery cold, very bleak; the thermometer and snow are falling fast; eggs\u003cbr\u003eand suet are rising faster; everything at this season is \"prized,\" and\u003cbr\u003eeverybody apprizes everybody else of the good they wish them,--\"A MERRY\u003cbr\u003eCHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!\" Even the shivering caroller, for \"it is\u003cbr\u003ea poor heart that never rejoices,\" is yelling forth the \"tidings of\u003cbr\u003ecomfort and joy.\" The snow that descends, making park and common\u003cbr\u003ealike--topping palace and pigsty, now crowns the semi-detached villas,\u003cbr\u003eVictoria and Albert. They were erected from the designs of John Brown,\u003cbr\u003eEsq. and his architect (or builder), and are considered a fine specimen\u003cbr\u003eof compo-cockney-gothic, in which the constructor has made the most of\u003cbr\u003ehis materials; for, to save digging, he sank the foundation in an\u003cbr\u003eevacuated pond, and, as an antidote to damp, used wood with the\u003cbr\u003edry-rot--the little remaining moisture being pumped out daily by the\u003cbr\u003edomestics. The floors are delightfully springy, having cracks to\u003cbr\u003eprecipitate the dirt, and are sloped towards the doorways, so that the\u003cbr\u003efurniture is perpetually trying to walk out of the rooms; but those\u003cbr\u003eapertures are ingeniously planned to prevent the evil--the doors\u003cbr\u003eobstinately refusing to open at all, without force. That the whole may\u003cbr\u003enot appear too light, few windows are introduced. By casual observers\u003cbr\u003ethe Victoria and Albert would be taken for one--so united are they;\u003cbr\u003eand had we not seen the parting division, we should have doubted also.\u003cbr\u003eOf the entrance lodges, we have noticed one of the chimneys smoking\u003cbr\u003eperiodically; and, from the mollient white vapour issuing over the\u003cbr\u003ewindow at such times, presume Victoria is washing, whilst Albert is\u003cbr\u003elocked up and doing nothing.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147448697072,"sku":"2940012992727","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012992727_p0.jpg?v=1763575316","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012992727","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}