SOME CHRISTMAS A VERSIONS.
" People," said a prosperous London provision merchant, " eat very queer things at Christmas, some of which they would not look at any other time. " A wealthy old Scotchman, who's nearly a millionaire, and came up to London years ago with the proverbial halfcrown in his pocket, insists on his family dining on Christmas Day on stewed onions and porridge — the fare he had when a boy — and is surprised they don't like it. Even more strange is the fare of another of my customers, who says his family do themselves infinite injury by overeating during the festive season. So he's ordered a magnificent vegetarian spread, but all the same won't have a Christmas pudding in the house. "Very different is the feast that a certain wealthy newspaper proprietor is giving. His dinner-service, which he has had made specially for the occasion, is of gold, and the glasses of the purest and most exquisite Venetian. The viands, of course, will be of the best, and a boar's head and a peacock, served in the old English fashion, with its plumage spread out, will be on the table.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2545, 24 December 1902, Page 18 (Supplement)
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190SOME CHRISTMAS A VERSIONS. Otago Witness, Issue 2545, 24 December 1902, Page 18 (Supplement)
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