The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) / or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac

by William Hone

NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.

Mean Temperature 48·47.

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[396] This is the only month in the year in which water-cresses are without spawn.

[397] In Bath, before Sally Lunns were so fashionable, (their [origin] I shall shortly acquaint you with) muffins were cried with a song, beginning—

“Don’t you know the muffin man?
Don’t you know his name?
And don’t you know the muffin-man
That lives in Bridewell-lane? &c.”

I reply, yes, I did know him, and a facetious little short fellow he was, with a face as pocked as his crumpets; but his civility gained him friends and competence,—virtue’s just reward.

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