A Monday Christmas.
Christmas Day fell on a Monday last year. It fell on a Monday also in 1865, and on that occasion the following was unearthed from, it was stated, the Harleian MSS., No. 2252, folio 153-1 :—: — If Christmaß Day on Monday be, A groat winter that year you'll see, And full of winds both loud and shrill : But in summer, truth to tell, High winds shall there be and strong, Full of tempests lasting long ; While battles they shall multiply, And great plenty of beasts shall die. They that be born that day, I ween, They shall be strong each one and keen ; He shall be found that stealeth aught ; Tho' thou be sick, thou diest not. The year 1866 was the year of the AustroPrussian war, a year of disastrous gales, and a year of cattle plague. Again in 1871 Christinas Day fell on a Monday. The twelvemonth following that day saw England with cattle plague in the north and some great storms; but as to "battles" we must go back a few months in 1871 for the capitulation of Paris and the conflict with the Commune. We have had a Monday Christmas for the third time within a dozen years.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2085, 8 February 1894, Page 49
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204A Monday Christmas. Otago Witness, Issue 2085, 8 February 1894, Page 49
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