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 4:If Christmas-day on Monday be, A great winter that year you'll see Aud full of winds both loud and shrill; But in bummer, truth to tell, High winds sball there be and strong, Full of tempests lasting loog ; While battles they shall multiply, And great plenty of beasts shall die. - They tbat be born that day, I ween, They shall be strong each one and keen; He shall be found that stealeth aught; Tho' thOu be eick' thou diest not. .The year 1866 was the year of ihe Austro-Prassian war, a year of disastrous gales, and a year of cattle plague. Again in 1871 Christmas Day fell ou a Monday.' The twelvemonth following chat day saw England with cattle plague ia . the North, and some great storms ; but as to "battles" we must go back a few moo ths in 1871 for the capitulation bf Paris aod the conflict with the Commune. We' have had a Monday Christmas for tbe third time within a dozen years. .
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 70, 22 March 1877, Page 4
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204A MONDAY CHRISTMAS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 70, 22 March 1877, Page 4
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