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Posted: 31 Dec 2014

Taken: 30 Dec 2014

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A Happy New Year

A Happy New Year
"A Happy New Year. Haddocks. Come to your milk now."

A Victorian-era New Year calling or greeting card with a hand-drawn sketch.

"Come to your milk" seems to have had a specific meaning in the nineteenth century beyond pulling on a calf's tail to try to get it to drink out of a milk bucket. Besides a few hits on the phrase in Google Books, however, I haven't uncovered any source that reveals what that meaning might have been.

Smiley Derleth, arts enthusiast, , Don Sutherland have particularly liked this photo

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 Don Sutherland
Don Sutherland club
Great image.
9 years ago.
Alan Mays club has replied to Don Sutherland club
Thanks!
9 years ago.
 arts enthusiast
arts enthusiast
A pretty good drawing on that lovely Victorian card! So glad it survived for over 100 years and made it into your hands.
9 years ago.

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