. Christmas cheer [electronic resource]: in three courses, more than ordinary ones, and where every guest will get his dessert, and a taste of those choice spirits, "that cheer but not inebriate," . he habit of hundreds ofYour Majestys subjects) —authors, artisans, in-valids, and other indivi-duals requiring a mouth-ful of fresh air—to tra-verse various portions ofthe River Thames betweenBlaekwall and Chelsea,for the sake of enjoyingthe same at a compara-tively small outlay, consistent with the means of themajority : Hull isrjerrag it also having become the habit ofother individuals, presumed
. Christmas cheer [electronic resource]: in three courses, more than ordinary ones, and where every guest will get his dessert, and a taste of those choice spirits, "that cheer but not inebriate," . he habit of hundreds ofYour Majestys subjects) —authors, artisans, in-valids, and other indivi-duals requiring a mouth-ful of fresh air—to tra-verse various portions ofthe River Thames betweenBlaekwall and Chelsea,for the sake of enjoyingthe same at a compara-tively small outlay, consistent with the means of themajority : Hull isrjerrag it also having become the habit ofother individuals, presumed to be Gents of variousdiiTi-r-, to voyage also on these boats, and the instantthey come on board to light a species of fireworkcoii]|Hi-ed of dried cabbag; leaves, and termed the smoke of which the atmosphere iscompletely jioiMined, and the authors, artisans, orinvalid-, as the ease may be, put to extreme suffering:May it therefore Your Majesty that it ; <ano be it ClliUtro, That henceforth eachindividual so oliending against common politeness be li A BOWL OF PUNCH. immediately set down as a snob on parole —theword snob being the common for gent: with. the certainty that he belongs to a class of societywhere such behaviour is considered (to clothe itsvulgar idiom in a continental language, whereby itscoarseness may be lessened) tout a fait le fromage:and the term on parole indicating at the same time that the aforesaid party is hors de chez luilJ) pourle jour, being in realitya sauteur du he it cnactetr, That acommittee be appointed topurchase and buy up allthe spare cabbage leavesfrom the public markets ;and, having steeped themin an infusion of strong tobacco and saltpetre, to rollthem up into Cheroots. And having so formed them,that these be presented abundantly to all scavengers,costermongers, cabmen, and the like orders, wherebythe _ air-polluters may see more clearly, that thepractice is by no means fashionable or dash
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