February Twelfth
“Ven you’re a married man, Samival, you’ll understand a good many things as you don’t understand now: but vether it’s worth while goin’ through so much to learn so little, as the charity boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o’ taste.”
—Dickens.
February Thirteenth
For as all widows love too well,
She liked upon the list to dwell,
And oft ripped up the old disasters.
—Hood.
February Fourteenth
Sir Simon, as snoring he lay in his bed,