...bombastic Play 1 find in Ray's Collection of Proverbs: " Bounce * Buckram, Velvet's dear, " Christmass comes but once a Year ; " And when it comes, it brings good Cheer^ : " But when it's gone, it's never the near." Dr. Johnson tells us, that the Pious Chansons, a Kind...

...bombastic Play \ find in Ray's Collection of Proverbs; " Bounce * Buckram, Velvet's dear, " Christmass comes but once a Year ; " And when it comes, it brings good Cheer-^ : " But when it's gone, it's never the near." Dr. Johnson tells us, that the Pious Chansons, a Kind...

...ditly : " O fortune's fav'rites, great and good, " Afford a helpless infant food ; " For Christmas comes but once a year, " And when it comes it brings good cheer. Jn vain thus flow'd her tuneful breath ; (Great folks sometimes have little feeling ;) Poor child !...

...pale man draw thy knife ; From a black man keep thy wife. Bounce buckram, velvet's dear, Christmas comes but once a year ; And when it comes it brings good chcar, But when its gone its never the near. , ; j He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that...

...pale man draw thy knife ; From a black man keep thy wife. Bounce buckram, velvet's dear, Christmas comes but once a year ; And when it comes it brings good cbear, But when its gone its never the near. He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that buys good...

...in so, MlMf the means conducing to tn> end be good ton. Bounce Buckram Velvet's dear ; ~) Christmas comes but once a year, £ And when it comes it brings good cheer. 3 Bona dona, qnœdam damna. PROOF OP' CIVILIZATION ! A writer of a modern book of travels, relating...

...Johnny, Oh. Johnny, Johnny, Ho, ho, everybody, all around the ring ! " — SYDNEY DOBELL. "Christmas comes but once a year, And when it comes it brings good cheer."— OLD SONG. "These eight days doth none require His debts of any man ; Their tables do they furnish out...

...Johnny, Johnny, Oh, Johnny, Johnny, Ho, ho, everybody, all around the ring! — STDSEI DOIBLL. Christmas comes but once a year, And when it comes, it brings good cheer. — OLD SONQ. These eight days doth none require His debts of any man ; Their tables do they furnish...

...com,2)liments ? " and a bunch of mistletoe, and cake for tea — and all the rest of it ! ' Christmas comes but once a year, and when it comes, it brings good cheer.' That's the orthodox saying, isn't it ? Well, ' compliments ' may be translated into good cheer, health...

...festivals. Perhaps the most noticeable of all is the " Christmas fare." The old couplet says — " Christmas comes but once a year, And when it comes it brings good cheer." And from the time when the boar's head was considered " a dainty dish to set before a king " until...