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Christmas Penny Readings: Original Sketches for the Season
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That it cracks when I grasp you tightly.
For a roast, bake, boil,
Stew or fry in oil,
No fruit can be called thy equal;
For carrot or turnip
Might him or her nip,
And cause an unpleasant sequel.
But thou, free from guile,
Indigestion – bile —
Brought home to thy charge were never;
For thy soft white meal
Is the dinner leal
Of Great Britain’s sons for ever.
To say the least,
For a Christmas feast,
’Twould be quite an act of folly,
And far less shirky
To leave goose or turkey,
Than a bowl of potatoes jolly.
Why, the old king’s friend
Sir Loin to attend,
Would surely ne’er brown if he knew it;
And the very ale
Turn beadless – pale,
While the beef turn’d cold in its suet.
The firmest friend
Mother earth could send
To her children when pots were minus;
Of a pan not the ghost,
But they still could roast
The old king whereon still we dine us.
By disease tried sore —
May it come no more!
For what should we do without him?
For Jamaica yam
Is a sorry flam,
And an artichoke – There, pray scout him!
Or who’d think nice
Soppy plain-boil’d rice,
Or parsnips or chestnuts toasted?
Earth has no fruit
As a substitute
For the ’tater plain-boil’d or roasted.
So waxy and prime
In the summer-time,
When new, with your lamb and gravy,
And your young sweet peas,
Devour’d with ease —
Of that you may make “affidavy.”
Or in autumn glowing
To crown the sowing,
I love to gaze on the furrows
And ridges tumid
Where moistly humid
The jolly old nubbly burrows.
O vegetable!
Long as we’re able
Our gardens shall smile with your flower;
As in long straight rows
This old friend grows
So humbly where others tower.
A cabbage to cut
Is all right, but
Where is its strength and stamina?
Though right with ham on
Your table, or gammon,
At best ’tis a watery gammoner,
You may go if you list,
Where you like ’tis miss’d
Before any entrée or other
Grand preparation
Of a French cook’s nation,
And naught can the great want smother.
Feast on, grandee!
From your board I’ll flee
To my honest old friend in his jacket;
For ’twill sit but light,
Though you may feel tight
If you too indiscreetly attack it.
And, glorious thought!
It can be bought —
This gem of whose wealth I’ve boasted —
For a bronze to be got,
In our streets “all hot,”
Half cooked by steam and half roasted.
For a roast, bake, boil,
Stew or fry in oil,
No fruit can be called thy equal;
For carrot or turnip
Might him or her nip,
And cause an unpleasant sequel.
But thou, free from guile,
Indigestion – bile —
Brought home to thy charge were never;
For thy soft white meal
Is the dinner leal
Of Great Britain’s sons for ever.
To say the least,
For a Christmas feast,
’Twould be quite an act of folly,
And far less shirky
To leave goose or turkey,
Than a bowl of potatoes jolly.
Why, the old king’s friend
Sir Loin to attend,
Would surely ne’er brown if he knew it;
And the very ale
Turn beadless – pale,
While the beef turn’d cold in its suet.
The firmest friend
Mother earth could send
To her children when pots were minus;
Of a pan not the ghost,
But they still could roast
The old king whereon still we dine us.
By disease tried sore —
May it come no more!
For what should we do without him?
For Jamaica yam
Is a sorry flam,
And an artichoke – There, pray scout him!
Or who’d think nice
Soppy plain-boil’d rice,
Or parsnips or chestnuts toasted?
Earth has no fruit
As a substitute
For the ’tater plain-boil’d or roasted.
So waxy and prime
In the summer-time,
When new, with your lamb and gravy,
And your young sweet peas,
Devour’d with ease —
Of that you may make “affidavy.”
Or in autumn glowing
To crown the sowing,
I love to gaze on the furrows
And ridges tumid
Where moistly humid
The jolly old nubbly burrows.
O vegetable!
Long as we’re able
Our gardens shall smile with your flower;
As in long straight rows
This old friend grows
So humbly where others tower.
A cabbage to cut
Is all right, but
Where is its strength and stamina?
Though right with ham on
Your table, or gammon,
At best ’tis a watery gammoner,
You may go if you list,
Where you like ’tis miss’d
Before any entrée or other
Grand preparation
Of a French cook’s nation,
And naught can the great want smother.
Feast on, grandee!
From your board I’ll flee
To my honest old friend in his jacket;
For ’twill sit but light,
Though you may feel tight
If you too indiscreetly attack it.
And, glorious thought!
It can be bought —
This gem of whose wealth I’ve boasted —
For a bronze to be got,
In our streets “all hot,”
Half cooked by steam and half roasted.
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