When it’s Christmas and you discover that it isn’t your child.

When it's Christmas and you discover that it isn't your child.
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Early English Books Online (STC 16079)
When it's Christmas and you discover that it isn't your child.

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 21 December 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth When it’s Christmas and you discover that it isn’t your child., the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 16079). Copied into this book the twenty-firſt day of December, 2015. Finis.

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“When it’s Christmas and you discover that it isn’t your child.”
Early English Books Online (STC 16079).

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