Illustrator: Linley Sambourne from British Punch humor/satire magazine, December 23, 1908, disbound from the magazine, not a modern reproduction. Size 8 x 10 1/2 inches, image shown is slightly cropped. Condition: excellent --  bright and clean, the page has been humidified and flattened for best appearance (and for framing); backside is blank.

KEEPING CHRISTMAS -- OUT

Butler of Modern English Home [reading from a card note]: "Not at 'ome, Her Ladyship is at Monty Carlo; the young gentlemen are in the Halps; and Sir John has taken the other members of the family to the Restorong." 

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