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Punch's Almanack for 1856
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PUNCH'S ALMANACK FOR 185(5.
The best Door-Mat.—The mat that, on his return home,
cleans the. husband's shoes of every bit of out-door caie.—
M.li. Mo family should be without one.
The "Well of Pure English" has become terribly defiled A Wretch.—Old Mr. Singlestick mystified a tea-party,
lately from the fact that so many Teetotallers have been by remarking that women were facts. When pressed to'
dipping their ugly mugs into it. explain his meaning he said, " Facts are stubborn things."
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FACT FOR DECEMBER.
feminine history.
The thirteenth is dedicated to the interesting Saint Lucy.
She was a Carthaginian by birth, and it is rather supposed
that both Augustine and Polycarp were driven into an eccle-
siastical life by her rejection of their advances, and her jokes
at their personal appearance. When the first sent her his
Optra, she replied, that she wanted none of his overtures; and
in return for a present of fish from the latter, she said, " As
much carp as you like, but no Polycarp." From her height
she was sometimes called Saint Lucy Long; and thyme was
laid at her shrine, and in a hymn she was implored to take it.
moral for december.
With Christmas-tide the tvrelvemonth ends.
Give nil unkindly thoughts the sack.
Embrace your foes, forgive your friends,
And buy your Punch's Almanack.
A christmas lecture foe young LADIES.
Dear young Ladies, at this festive seasoD of the year you
may he called nnoil to observe the mistletoe, once sucred to
the Druids. You will be pleased then to remember this
curious fact—From the berries of the mistletoe men make
birdlime.
The Christmas Box of Affection.—A bandbox with a
bonnet in it.
The best Door-Mat.—The mat that, on his return home,
cleans the. husband's shoes of every bit of out-door caie.—
M.li. Mo family should be without one.
The "Well of Pure English" has become terribly defiled A Wretch.—Old Mr. Singlestick mystified a tea-party,
lately from the fact that so many Teetotallers have been by remarking that women were facts. When pressed to'
dipping their ugly mugs into it. explain his meaning he said, " Facts are stubborn things."
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FACT FOR DECEMBER.
feminine history.
The thirteenth is dedicated to the interesting Saint Lucy.
She was a Carthaginian by birth, and it is rather supposed
that both Augustine and Polycarp were driven into an eccle-
siastical life by her rejection of their advances, and her jokes
at their personal appearance. When the first sent her his
Optra, she replied, that she wanted none of his overtures; and
in return for a present of fish from the latter, she said, " As
much carp as you like, but no Polycarp." From her height
she was sometimes called Saint Lucy Long; and thyme was
laid at her shrine, and in a hymn she was implored to take it.
moral for december.
With Christmas-tide the tvrelvemonth ends.
Give nil unkindly thoughts the sack.
Embrace your foes, forgive your friends,
And buy your Punch's Almanack.
A christmas lecture foe young LADIES.
Dear young Ladies, at this festive seasoD of the year you
may he called nnoil to observe the mistletoe, once sucred to
the Druids. You will be pleased then to remember this
curious fact—From the berries of the mistletoe men make
birdlime.
The Christmas Box of Affection.—A bandbox with a
bonnet in it.