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Transcriber's Note: Each paragraph is contained within a full-page illustration, so the illustration tags within the text have been removed to avoid congestion.
A MASQUE OF DAYS
A MASQUE OF DAYS
CASSELL & COMPANY LIMITED: LONDON:
FROM THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA:
NEWLY DRESSED & DECORATED
BY WALTER CRANE
PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE. 1901.
THE OLD YEAR being dead, and the NEW YEAR coming of age, wh: he does by Calendar Law, as soon as the breath is out of the old gentleman's body, nothing would serve the young spark but he must give a dinner upon the occasion, to wh: all the Days in the year were invited. The Festivals, whom he deputed as his stewards, were mightily taken with the notion. They had been engaged time out of mind, they said, in providing mirth and good cheer for mortals below; and it was time they should have a taste of their own bounty. It was stiffly debated among them whether the Fasts should be admitted. Some said, that the appearance of such lean, starved guests, with their mortified faces, would pervert the ends of the meeting. But the objection was overruled by Christmas Day who had a design upon Ash Wednesday , and a mighty desire to see how the old Domine would behave himself in his cups.
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