https://www.ipernity.com/tag/aemays/keyword/2464829 https://cdn.ipernity.com/p/101/45/66/288325.buddy.jpg https://www.ipernity.com/tag/aemays/keyword/2464829 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:01:09 +0000 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:01:09 +0000 https://www.ipernity.com https://www.ipernity.com/doc/aemays/36426678 tag:ipernity.com,2014-12-31,doc-36426678 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 01:15:54 +0000 2014-12-30T20:15:54-05:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/aemays">Alan Mays</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/aemays/36426678"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/66/78/36426678.2c6a3d25.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="154" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">"A Happy New Year. Haddocks. Come to your milk now."<br /> <br /> A Victorian-era New Year calling or greeting card with a hand-drawn sketch.<br /> <br /> "Come to your milk" seems to have had a specific meaning in the nineteenth century beyond pulling on a calf's tail to try to get it to drink out of a milk bucket. Besides a few hits on the phrase in Google Books, however, I haven't uncovered any source that reveals what that meaning might have been.</div> A Happy New Year <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/aemays">Alan Mays</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/aemays/36426678"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/66/78/36426678.2c6a3d25.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="154" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">"A Happy New Year. Haddocks. Come to your milk now."<br /> <br /> A Victorian-era New Year calling or greeting card with a hand-drawn sketch.<br /> <br /> "Come to your milk" seems to have had a specific meaning in the nineteenth century beyond pulling on a calf's tail to try to get it to drink out of a milk bucket. Besides a few hits on the phrase in Google Books, however, I haven't uncovered any source that reveals what that meaning might have been.</div> Alan Mays