Christmas Comes but Once A Year Part 4

Brown; for the note, intimating the catastrophe, said nothing about the _sculls_ being more wooden than her son's. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are really very happy!--Victoria and Albert are now united--the party-wall is removed. Mr. B. has retired from business, not even discounting bills:--he does not go to the city now; or at least if he does, it is behind Mr. Strap, who makes an important coachman, having filled out amazingly--may be, thinking, "he who drives fat cattle should himself be fat;" for the bays are too corpulent to kick, and take the journeys at their own pace. John--John Brown, "_private_," now keeps a public house--"the Brown Arms," "the Rampant Locomotive," "Noted Brown Stout House," at the corner of Brown Terrace:--it was a beer-shop when John first took it, but he has since obtained a _licence_, and married Mary, the house-maid.

Mr. Brown is notorious for keeping up the festive Christmas season!--He now makes it a rule to invite only those he loves or respects--not because they are well-to-do in this world, but because he likes or admires them;--seeming fully a.s.sured of Time's progress, and that--

CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR!

The End.