The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac ... for Daily Use and Diversio, Volume 2Pub. for T. Tegg, 1830 - Anecdotes |
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Page 75
... body is but small , I'm the greatest rogue amongst ye all ; This is my scrip - so for Christmas cheer If you've any thing to give throw it in here . " This may be but an uninteresting tail piece to your correspondent's clever com ...
... body is but small , I'm the greatest rogue amongst ye all ; This is my scrip - so for Christmas cheer If you've any thing to give throw it in here . " This may be but an uninteresting tail piece to your correspondent's clever com ...
Page 93
... body , while a small limb of any tree is thrust into the stump for the duck's neck , and one of the side branches left short makes his head . These ducks answer the purpose with their living pro- totypes , who fly by moonlight , and ...
... body , while a small limb of any tree is thrust into the stump for the duck's neck , and one of the side branches left short makes his head . These ducks answer the purpose with their living pro- totypes , who fly by moonlight , and ...
Page 95
... body . Hasten to your chamber , undress yourself quickly , and jump into bed without suffering its temperature to be heightened by the * See vol , i , p . 141 , Your machine called a warming - pan . bed will be warmed by your own heat ...
... body . Hasten to your chamber , undress yourself quickly , and jump into bed without suffering its temperature to be heightened by the * See vol , i , p . 141 , Your machine called a warming - pan . bed will be warmed by your own heat ...
Page 109
... body of a child about three years old was discovered , and imme- diately afterwards the body of its mother . She was the wife of a soldier of the 16th regiment , returning home with her infant after accompanying her husband to the place ...
... body of a child about three years old was discovered , and imme- diately afterwards the body of its mother . She was the wife of a soldier of the 16th regiment , returning home with her infant after accompanying her husband to the place ...
Page 121
... body of the buck to be baked ; and having fixed the head on a pole , caused it to be borne before the cross in their procession within the church , until they issued out of the west door . There the keeper that brought it blew " the ...
... body of the buck to be baked ; and having fixed the head on a pole , caused it to be borne before the cross in their procession within the church , until they issued out of the west door . There the keeper that brought it blew " the ...
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