January Birthdays

On the 4th January 1833 Charles was born to Patty and John, two days later on the 7th Frederick was 9 years old - he was born in 1824.

So just some lines from 'The Holiday Walk' in celebration:

Come Eliza & Anna lay bye top & ball

& Freddy boy throw away cart & toys all

Look about for your hats & dispence with your play

We'll seek for the fields & be happy to day

Do but hark at the shouts of the boys by the school

As noisey & merry as geese in a pool

While the master himself is so sick of his thrall

That he laughs like the merriest child of them all

While they race with their shadows he joins in the fray

& leaps oer the “cat gallows” nimble as they

As glad to get out of his school in the sun

As a captive would be from his prison to run

The morning invites us to walk come along

Tis so sweet that the sparrow een tries at a song

The dews are all gone save amid the dark glooms

Neath the woods crowded leaves were the sun never comes

Nor need we regret that the dews linger there

For brambles defye us to come if we dare