. Anglo-Belgic ballads and legends, and other tales in verse. ALFEED CEOWQUILL. ?t WHOSE PRjOLIFIC PEN AND PENCIL HAVE FREQUENTLY CONTRIBUTED THEIR QUOTA TO UNMASK THE ABSURDITIES AND MUMMERIES OF OUR time;S INSCRIBED, BYHIS SINCERE FRIEND, THE ilje Citizens Irogitss. Almost every Contineutal country has itsCarnival. Staid, sedate, calculating, speculative,matter-of-fact England has hers. On the Con-tinent the Carnival is kept on Shrove-tide, lastingthe whole of the three days preceding Ash-Wednesday Then comes Lent, with its genuflec-tions, its holy water, its imprinting of crosses o
. Anglo-Belgic ballads and legends, and other tales in verse. ALFEED CEOWQUILL. ?t WHOSE PRjOLIFIC PEN AND PENCIL HAVE FREQUENTLY CONTRIBUTED THEIR QUOTA TO UNMASK THE ABSURDITIES AND MUMMERIES OF OUR time;S INSCRIBED, BYHIS SINCERE FRIEND, THE ilje Citizens Irogitss. Almost every Contineutal country has itsCarnival. Staid, sedate, calculating, speculative,matter-of-fact England has hers. On the Con-tinent the Carnival is kept on Shrove-tide, lastingthe whole of the three days preceding Ash-Wednesday Then comes Lent, with its genuflec-tions, its holy water, its imprinting of crosses onpeoples foreheads, its masses, and its fastings;very sad times for poulterers and butchers, butmoney-making times for fishermen and fishmongers. In London the Carnival is kept, not on Shrove-Tuesday, but on the 9th of November. Themasquerade is not general, but limited to theprivileged few, the principal characters beingenacted by His Civic Majesty, his courtiers the 108 IHE CITIZENS PROGBESS. Aldermen, the SheriflFs, the Common Councilmen,and Domine knows what, attended by hogs inarmour, beef, pudding, and turtle eaters. Oh, the9th of November is a glorious epoch; for it isthe renewal of feasting and gormandising—a Cali-fornian time for the
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