The Comic Almanack, Volume 2: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities
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│ depression; mistress │ Misses and young Mr.
│ and the young ladies │ Glumpy and a few
│ Rainy │ friends are asked to
│ │ drop in in the
│ │ evening
│ │
A box for the Opera │The same, with │Tickets for the
│ additional closeness │ Horticultural, or
│ │ seats taken at the
│ │ Lyceum
│ │
No one down to │Regular Storm, blowing │Missus unwell; cannot
breakfast at 10 │ up everybody, and │ come down to
o'clock to make tea │ which makes the bells│ breakfast; the young
│ ring all over the │ ladies "suddenly
│ house │ indisposed," and do
│ │ not show themselves;
│ │ master goes out, and
│ │ slams the door fit to
│ │ shake the house down
│ │
Boys home for the │Unsettled; continual │Repeated thrashings
holidays │ hurricane for six │
│ weeks │
│ │
New baby, or a new pair│Squally and changeable │Dines out; home very
of boots │ │ late. (Let him take
│ │ care to whom it falls
│ │ to pull off master's
│ │ boots on a night like
│ │ this!)
│ │
Dividend day │Fair │Theatre; oysters for
│ │ supper (perhaps); a
│ │ new bonnet
│ │
Series of │High wind; very Stormy;│Nervous headache;
contradictions │ air charged with │ mistress Nervous
│ thunder │ headache; mistress
│ │ dines in her bedroom;
│ │ no pudding for
│ │ dinner, or dessert
│ │
Taxes │Foul; every symptom of │Finding fault with
│ a Storm, but carried │ everything; cook
│ off towards the │ blown up for dinner,