Word: journeyman
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...custom never returned. That was the Christmas box of the English poor. Before the Reformation every poor apprentice, journeyman, pardoner, and begging friar had his Christmas box, and into it the merry Englanders deposited their alms. Then on Christmas Eve, when the box had got full and heavy, the poor apprentice and his like would break the box open and thereupon have a jolly Christmas. Only the tightest Scrooge refused its invitation, and always was he followed by six months of bad luck...