BIND--SAFE FIND."] The 25th of December arrives.--The festival of the
year has come. Christmas-day commences with the rising of the cook, who
finished the evening, kneading and gaping over pies and puddings; and
wakes with the same operation, gaping and kneading her eyes, which do
not fairly open until she comes to look after her first care--the
pudding:--the fire, having been made up over night, is discovered a
"beauty;" but, behold,--within the copper, the pudding has
dissolved!--there is nothing to be found but a cloth, which must have
been boiling all night in a rich plum-soup,--the string having come
untied; or rather, never been tied at all, but popped in by Mrs. B.
without attending to that operation:--a piece of neglect, for which the
cook gets "warning," and all the servants rated--until the bells of St.
Stiff's remind Mrs. B. that it is time to depart, for the duties of a
Christian, to eschew all the vanities of this wicked world, in a rich
purple Genoa velvet paletot and duck of a plum bonnet. That day Mr.
Churchwarden Brown's pue would not hold all, so Mrs. Strap, the
pue-opener, had to manoeuvre by appropriating part of another to their
use, losing her Christmas-box for the offence against its owner, Mr.
Din, the copper-s

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