| Antique Print Christmas ArtWonderful image from a scarce British Victorian Journal A really lovely, quirky illustration showing a pair of turkeys dressed in top hats and waistcoats bemoaning the festive season and wishing all turkey lovers their just deserts!
"The dark days of dinners are over,
When gourmets were gathered indoors
And we both are fairly in clover,
Though comrades have perished by scores,
A plague on the festive season!
May all men who eat us be ill;
And go, and with very good reason,
In search of a dose of Blue Pill!
The Blue Pill referred to is the Victorian remedy for indigestion due to over eating and gluttony. (The poem is beneath the illustration but is covered by the matt.) |
