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11 nome w naear joyfulllat tenet :
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every man 'la jolly.
11 room with Ivy teems Is driest
.t •, rry port with belly.
Th' ...mese churl* at .nu' moth ...Tine,
i .• our 'crena'. hl review:. 1 n 44.e :
1, 1, sorrow Ili 14 clip of nL..'.
,t I I.•4 as •11 1.e linen)..
S..: u4lahlrrrr' 1 himulyti. smoke
1 • 1 liri$411.181n% tau -M. are burning:
Th .eoest. w't 4 baked meals clink.
.%,sl all their spit. Mr tursing.
,Noel the door Irl au4saw Ile.
enol ,4 for cold it hap t.. die.
w'r;l !, Ivy it in • Christina* pie
.tn,l'veneer, be .Merry.
Jfre,s •s cart. eerenleesek rrat•rp peal.
Old Time Waits.
T i. not clearly limas whether the
n.r•n "waits:' allee1'1at4d w ills t'briat-
deno,cel orielsally arusirl4 n.stne
..•n1 .nrticular k1t,.1 of minis or the
r-. 114. 1.1354...1 Loeht• special • lr.ume
roam .tit one time the nn4118 "waits" vinyl
; , in,tner':. attached to the King's
n, ,i L.s"• deity it was la i:unr•I the
s;1.•• ..•t u:ght :111.1 p'u',,•Inim the hour. ...
.mrpnnv ..f wait. vol. c•h14n•loeol
a 1. -c1. n. suety is. the year (amt. au•1
se to the ,hath• nod em1.d•umrmt•
4.;.•:4.14'4 1'4 111 itle• ('film ..f
Ivy 1 \'.. Ilyli 1.r •n1. :-" ► w.y:e
It1ai �...,te;y•• front My'.bebunu 1.. Slaw-,
7l:er�:•ec 41('4' l4" tire watch.. on ;then 1414'.
,nen fu•o•r tyul .. in ter s..iiwtr mlclu,r
tynn- 1n11 make Ilw Ih1,. gnyte lit every
, I., err dot,.mot of t'yec a• w,•:I fur
4, ' 4,v, i. r •. runt ;..Item. Ile r:tet%
414 urvn.trle:M. n,ld 1.,48,'(6
• oil 411t n 144l". WWI fir Isomer...
•:uefle• plebe. a I.u.Le. of
�.�.. , !or is inter.• u. eld.•. half :t
4., • ! Lre.^.d, n .rhes of ale, hi) nae•
dM. '., :tool a'Lt.hrl •,r ^.leis."
''II - . :.•141.•41 444,4,444 tlynt the wait •t
n., .. a kind of page.. pail Inertly i■
u.,•:, t ;null:, in hoar.) venue. Wlieu
„1•.•444444 town n1lt.icia4414 hinter.'
z!•. they were .Inureinn% cit ie
• ••.orblyrd u. 4vatehmtetl to aa11
,' minstrels oho looked' fur a
L....:.. , private liberality.
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Ch:::teas Feasts.
. feasts a1.,,..' 111 CI. '1''
1l..• eel -1,1-111,M 13(
'4 days. Tbc14, t4.• 8444. ''44
4'., ,.,44. I.sk in the "Reim.. My.-
, I••; 4:r fees( the title "Fr.1uw
1•ru1 n1 ,be .l..e.. .%s it
..•• ,.rar1-1 its I''raute. as -owning t..
11' I&,.ne, iY en'I,.i.11rl ::1111oa v14-
•, dr/ur41i.• .4,.•.v. 4411 1114• u'oa44luu
114 vi-ulkoal on Christina. 1/•ty 141
htld:.d to reprnyll•u1 41,.yorople•
1•r %queratter.
- .'lets-.IM.I 411 :111 alt. 1411,4 111414,
_ 1'•u,l •rad a rod. line i.l 4a11 .1
'o, fl. hal:nem, with •u Ilu-
.41er., reale 1144 • 44 Q40414.11 :i.14
••.•• i a ape.lker. There were
1' •, sled .it (iemtill•s. .\man
, n ,ters 141 peen Virgil was iu-
:,o: u4nikish rip vies, an .1
.14,1 n lruuslater of the
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r./.1g1, 111e booty of the c4urcl
.14.411; ,. ser..c.1-s nisi 1on%er•i11g uu 144•
a"I'14•, IA L1111:4,411 of Clans till Ilsey
roar 4..•,1 the elo. 1
SII ,• • •rrarr. a, performed in the r•tbe-
de,a 14t Ilolf.e, commenced with a proer.-
MM .nnddnb the Clergy reprewuled the
H'1.4'l. of the Ord Teatimes( oleo f,.re
toil 41 :Meth of Christ; then followed
hill .I 'u 111.841111.1.1 1811 the awl. Lseluria..
Hs...... Jahn the Baptist. the Itibvl.
tt,r.•e,mee.. Virgil. Nr'4uchsdaeaaar
t ,^ three musicians In the furmere.
1.r ohs tir,s,emmemo* the rat4-
.-.rr41 croups of persona performed
110 41 • '.f Jews alsd Ge.tlke, to whom
stere addressed seeerh,'a:•agar v
• • l'e (fr� 4,a toe. somber : as by
•'I.' ,-a1. forward •ar'cwlvely and
ties..( a paaaag. Moth a tri the Mes-
h The other eh!rsrtme advanced to
the monition*
pew? h .
aat(.'. sad reply
'I •s inns d obs demisters. rry
.1.31•.•1 the miracle of the farmer:
' 1is'In•r spoke, the 91b71 appeared I
then an •them waa a whkb ces-
th..to
"T44. AL14y0 of a Archbishop d se..- 4
t.. 11•t during mak a *orrice the
1 t,elf, clad with modem priestir
nen:.. w.s sslsmaly eemduew4 tthe
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14t..I now wit' pais •M gram:
AAW ir'p t. mem reply.
Nn e1. ! eatleulty.
Mvs!hesvs!hsi'
Mnof the wefts the whale d e sight
Ve seat b, and '.tossed stew
ateaeeesa, sat nabobs.
(•fever mss .wally wag •1
obi festivals.. Winn the clinchers
^t r wise wee served f 1a the es.m
• a M14tleas term Ile elates lit
m emeeA
.e hmtele. A. dread Amsler
dreeee bt a Sag Moll In prb/mMt;
«'yam . sen1M Aa SIMSid �reNed tl .feeder.
},14.414. the Tula Log , Onc. ib. Vi�6.al,,d Rids.
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F you will go to the crossroads be-
tween eleven and twelve on Christmas
night you will hear what most concerns
you in the coming year.
If on Christmas Eve you make a little
heap of 0.11 041 the table, and it melts
over night, you will die the nett year: Ifs
in the morning. it remains undiminished,
you will live.
If ■ .filet he spun. w04e1 and sewed by
a pure, chaste maiden on Christmas Day
it will be proof against lead or steel.
1f yon are born at aermou time on
Christmas morning you eau see spirits.
1f you burn elder on Christman Eve;
you will have revealed to you all the
wit. -lo', and the sorcerers of the neigh-
borhood.
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If you eat to raw egg on Christmas
• fnstinr. you eau (sorry heavy
t weights
It is unlucky to carry anything fortis
from the 6,111144' 1111 Christmas morning un-
til something km been brought into It.
If the fire barna brightly on Christmas
moruiiir it betoken. prosperity: if It
smoulders. adversity.
Beginning of Cbr:s!at_s.
WI1I' N did I'!ristmas b: Biu? bio old
a festival is it, ..o intimately have
• we 1.te11._aemeintc11 :with it .from
earliest 1'111 Idh+..h .a 1011: 1111•1 sly 1111 t• as-
sociations and a.'iivities :11411 spirit I.'r-
rade the world thou it Seen R a. if it must
be a. old nn the very earth itself.
(1f course. we know that it is nn 4nni-
ver*,ry .11 the birthday of 811.011114 of Nazla-
reth, and that it is not ueur:y . o old as
that event: for in the er,rly days of the
Christian ('Larch there +n1. no 141ich (wle-
brntiou. The very 4vur1! 1'lrietluas is of
cunlparatively late origin. The word i4
first lined in 103~. its fora, then being
('hri.N-Jlaess••. the .,rasa of c-hrist.
t)rigcn, an early father of the Church.
raid that in the Scripture. it 44:,. the .in-
ners alone, not the saints. who velebrated
their birthduye. Another ,'nrly writer ree-
ferreol to. lie fact that (111 'Mt of the
pagat4f.-ods were kept by the people. The
very first evidence of n feast having been
helot In honor 4,f t:!.' birth of ('hriet was in
Egypt ,about the y.nr :gat. Clement of
Aletnn.lrin said :--' Certain l:iy Winn the-
ologians over curiously •a.44iau, u.$ 'the;
year alone, but the day of ('hri.t's birth.
plaein41 it on May _'n." Another date a.-
signwl to the event was larch ,''s, Le-
eann• on that day- the material situ was
cre+n ted.
The double rumm,•:nnlvlion of 1143
Epiphany and the Nativity beealne popu-
lar partly bee: ane the apparition of tate
shepherds Ovas, r',$si.1.44-4.1 its one of the
manifestations; sof /psitlt•* ghat'.
Bemuse of the iu,•rense of merry snak-
ing King Canute ,:rive Order about 11111
that there .hnnld he fasting instead of
feasting from 4'bri4t.ua. to F:41iphahy. At
4arion1 limes Loth ,•ivil and er'1•Ienlasti,'al
authorities condemned various furls of
celebration, many of them beennw' the^
had been married to e4r•eyl.. Ill.Euglnnd
in 11111 nil Christmas Misers -nitre was for-
bidden by Parliament. The day wits to
he a fast, n market day, au11 11,.' shops
were .soml.•Ile.l to be 4,(.•n. '4V'r.e 111111
all, plum puddings and miner pies weer
condemnee( an heathenish. I4.veno of
Christman resisted the measure 811141 nt
Canterbury and Rome other pinees there
was bloodshed. After the Restoration all
of the lover* of old ('hri.tmas customs re-
vived them to the full nod the Dissenter*
contented them.elres with dubbing Yule-
tide Feoltide.
E11'OKE the Puritans condemned plow poddlmg1 sad mine. pies as b•atbesMb
atltd passed laws prohibiting Christmas merriment o. the Mme remade
Christmas In Brogtssd was • gormeous •crass, richly pktor.pee with the
stately ceremonies %f the t'bnn•h, the palace and the baronial hall, riotous some
time. even to the point of eteves In Its cruder forma of revelry.
The ~ewes: of the Tole log, which Is generally agreed by authorities to he traceable to
the pages Atm which were performed at that seems of the year Were tele ~slag of Chris -
Beaky, via• m.r•vthrbffe the mat Myra. et the r.remenlee observed ow Christmas ID.* 1m
mediaeval than- From the time that the huge binek left the woods until it burnt In (key on
14 hearth tha leg visa the centre et the Christmas activities. When It made la trtnmphai
progress from tbe wends obeli wayfarer raised 4,M hat as It passed.
It vibe mitered teat Its flame would hers toot aid wresgo and 4ertburnrp, atm tha
woman bowl. whirls bobbled he Ms heat that it mot forth, was quaffed to the wishes set t>K
an•Mat seem and ealameltle•' Geed* and slew. *nod le those eer.seedss wish .pal
met Mlles tb .Nos Mg bad biased hecto est Ito 'batted roman• wen pat wflpe
owensile b. arMt47 QrMaresd moth soother rear. sloes it wee • this base 4,e them
wM gMheeed a! ohm AWank ank teat tea new Tule Mg blest mei ••bees M now
d N. remaaat et the ill oath in M' it flat 1411 bawls* remits might bliew the •eegbsa
weasel 'a- slip atInebed dd Irl !al IIt WIS Ned fMMesta 1! *no tlea/Y
that the boom which possessed this charred bit of log was ate from fire for another year.
A still more curious belief was that which IImked the hospitality of the festal hall while
the log was burning to those who comae with feet shod. Should • barefooted person enter
the hall out that might after Ow Tele hog Ilsd begun to bare he was apt to receive •.ythlug
but a warm welcome from the other revellers, for his coming was regarded as an 111 omen,
likely to bring disaster to some dim shape, sone the lees dreaded because of Its vagueness.
While the great log cost so warm an 111. mlutloo from the hearth a eandle of MOO -
strolls •oma also Wed Its light am the Christmas hive gathertag. The Christmas. er Tule.
camdie burned toe twelve nights, and was placed's/iv/be 41gh table at supper.
M.mming was also • meet important feature of the season's festivities. In the year 1.0u.
says an ancient ehronbeter, Henry IV., holding boa Christmas at kith•'., was 'kilted by twelve
Algoritms and their sone as mammere, and thea august personages had great thesis. from
8M M•jasty tor tbe$r perform•tse..
Shortly afterward, however, •sotb r historian seta forth the fact that • rossplraey to
seseler the King wee ore•■4,.d 'seder the galas of • Twelfth Night ...Ing. The plot
woe dheeovaed .sly • 4.'. hs.re before It was to have 4.e pat Into .terethos. Hairy
VIII. bund an adtrt ageism memml.g beet.« of the Mmol committal under its eleek.
but erao tam edit Med M ..sen psrdeipatles to tble form of Christian revelry.
the maatlt/M appeared le dlft vunt.seta of reur.ateu a.d took pert M .11 m...er et psr-
fersmseeM. Ileum d tKs. timet/ kadu'Sid la gmeorelly MMus behavior, wait se &Malt*
Gelb* K imp timet
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In Pepys' Days. 1
Ptpys' Mre Diary theis an interesting
I •errant of the way that Cbnstmas was
sweat in 1t1G::-
' 11a.1 a pleasant walk to Whitehall,
Kheft't't1t1pr t• ew n•'<Te•eiaat moos
=onion with the family. hat I came a
little too late. !to I walker) rip Into the
9onse and stent my time looking over
pictures. particularly : le ships In -Zing
Henry the Eighth'. Voyage to Bullies,
narking the great difference between
those built thee and now. By asd by,
down to the chapel orals. where Bishop
Morley preached on the song of the
morels, 'Glory to Cod on high, on earth
peace and good will tow.rd mss.' Nor
thought he made het • poor sermon', hut
Ina., sod reprehending the cosmos jol-
lity of the court for the true jay that
shall and aught to be on those days. Par-
ticularised concerning (lair enema In
plays and gaming, crying that ha whose
office It 1• to keep the gamesters In ender
and within bounds serves bat for a eac-
oud In • duel, meaning the grooms por-
ter. 1'poe which It was worth observing
how far they are come from taking the
reprebaaaions of a Bishop sedately, that
they all I.ngh In the chapel whew he re -
fleeted
-fleeted nn their ill oedema and ewl+a
Ile Nd mach press se to joy In them
public days .f joy and hospitality. Bot
oast that stood by whispered in wy .ere
that t4 Moshep do sot bead sae greats
to the poor himself. T4 01.1111410 deme, a
good ant4= followed with 'WM, rad the
Klee MIMI demo to remove obs mew
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