 | Electronic journals - 1919 - 424 pages
...ease jelong to the version I remember. Ot the Christmas song, I only recall the flrefe verse : — wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, A pocket full of money and a cellar full of beer. An apple, a pear, a plum, and a cherry. And a sup of good ale to make a man merry. " The New Year song... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1878 - 676 pages
...four of which correspond with those sung by the Welsh children : — " I wish you a merry Christmas. A happy New Year, A pocket full of money, And a cellar full of beer, And a good fat pig To serre you all the year." I have not, however, observed the pierced apple in the... | |
 | Anne Elizabeth Baker - English language - 1854 - 490 pages
...but small, I'll do my best to please you all. Roast beef, plum pie—- Who likes it better than I ? I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year,...A pocket full of money, and a cellar full of beer. FOOL. Here comes I That never came yet, With my great head And little wit. My head is big, My wit is... | |
 | George Willis - 1856 - 320 pages
...those whose munificence may be excited by the plenitude of their unbiassed, yet plaintive benevolence . I wish you a merry Christmas, And a happy New Year;...A pocket full of money, And a cellar full of beer ; And a good fat pig, To serve you all the year. Ladies and gentlemen, sat by the fire, Pity we, poor... | |
 | William Mattieu Williams - Norway - 1859 - 402 pages
...old-fashioned folks in England do, and how they have in Norway a rhyme precisely the same as ours — " A merry Christmas and a happy New Year; A pocket full of money and a cellar full of beer." She had instinctively come to the conclusion that the English and Norwegians are of the same stock,... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1861 - 348 pages
...but small, I'll do my best to please you all. Roast beef, plum pie — Who likes it better than I ? I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year, A pocket full of money and a cellar full of beer. Christmas Cheer. — First is the Boar's Head, "the rarest dish in all the lande." Till towards the... | |
 | William Henderson - Folklore - 1866 - 380 pages
...an abundant crop that year. The Cleveland New Year's greeting is very definite on this matter: — I -wish you a merry Christmas, And a happy New Year, A pantry full of roast beef, And a barrel full of beer. You may constantly hear the lads of that district... | |
 | Manx Society - 1869 - 290 pages
...be so determined as most incident and proper to that course of determination. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. WE wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, A pocket full of money, and a cellar full of beer ; Long may you live and happy may you be, With your best content and your fortune free. God bless the... | |
 | Thomas Thompson - 1870 - 224 pages
...our readers will remember having heard in Yorkshire. It was — " I wish yon a merry Christmas, And happy new year ; A pocket full of money, and a Cellar full of beer." What are now called 'Christmas boxes seem to have been customary with our Scandinavian ancestors, for... | |
 | Archaeology - 1873 - 670 pages
...and cider stores, the streets are filled with boys and men, singing in loudest tones possible : — " I wish you a Merry Christmas And a Happy New Year,...A pocket full of money, And a cellar full of beer, And a good fat pig To serve you all the year. Ladies and gentlemen, Sat (sic) by the fire, 1'ity иг... | |
| |
I wish you a merry Christmas, And a happy New Year; A pocket full of money , And a cellar full of beer ; And a good fat pig, To serve you all the year. 
