christmas: christmas fish

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1989
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/14005

christmas n. As I read the article, it struck me that it was 60 years, almost to the day, since I had taken my first "Christmas fish," but how that little fish had changed over those 60 years! Multi-colored! On Christmas Eve only! I could almost see the spirit of my old chum, gone to the Great Beyond for many years, strumming his harp while ad libbing to the tune of "O Tannenbaum" "O Christmas fish! O Christmas fish! What wrought this change, you tasty dish!" [over] The many "Christmas fish" I caught were on average about nine inches long and almost an exact replica of a small tom- cod, without any of the light brown shade sometimes seen on tomcod. PRINTED ITEM DNE Sup G.M.Story JAN. 24 1989 [check] WK Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 4 Used Sup blow the christmas pudding, christmas apple, christmas back-junk, JUNK, christmas block, christmas box, christmas fish, christmas log, christmas masque, christmas time, TIME, christmas tree Checked by Cathy Wiseman on Wed 07 Oct 2015; Reverse of card at C_14117.