When that one aunt rolls up to Christmas dinner with her Crock Pot.

When that one aunt rolls up to Christmas dinner with her Crock Pot.
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Early English Books Online (STC 2836)

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

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth When that one aunt rolls up to Christmas dinner with her Crock Pot., 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 2836). Copied into this book the twenty-firſt day of December, 2015. Finis.

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“When that one aunt rolls up to Christmas dinner with her Crock Pot.”
Early English Books Online (STC 2836).

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