School: Crossroads (roll number 4143)

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1. Festival Customs (continued)

   

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   Give us room to rhyme, We'll show you some activity, About the Christmas time". Another says:- "Here comes I, Jack Straw, Such a man you never saw, Kissed my wife through a riddle, Thro' a reel, thro; an old spinning wheel." The man, with the money box enters and gives the box a shake to make a great sound of money in it, He says "Here comes I, Devil doubt, With my long copper snout, Money I want, money I crave, If you don't give me money, I'll sweep you all to your grave." The whole things ends with a song About a night or two before Xmas, the mummers meet, and distribute the money collected between one another. They spend it on cigarettes or other Xmas fare.

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2. Festival Customs

   

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   On Shrove Tuesday in this locality pancakes are made in almost every house. They may not be made in some of the houses until that day next

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