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Catalogue of Brand Material.

III. special Local Observances.

Games at waste hollow, by men

and women separately Landlady treated household and friends to cake and wine -

" Fathering Monday," the day after Mothering Sunday - - - -

" Fathering Sunday," the Sunday after Mothering Sunday - - - -

LOCALITY.

Oxfordshire (Chalgrove).

Gloucester (Swan Inn, Wotton-under-Edge).

South Staffs.

Gloucester (St. Briavel's).

FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT.

I. Names.

Carling or Carlin Sunday ^

Carle Sunday - - - - Careing or Care Sunday

Fag-pie Sunday - - - - Whirlin Sunday - - - -

II. General Observances. (a) Viands.

" Carlings," viz. dried peas, steeped, boiled, and fried in butter. Some- times eaten with rum and sugar - - - Eaten as a sweetmeat be- tween meals, or as des- sert - - - - Made into a pancake and eaten in the afternoon - Inn-keepers offer them free to customers

" Carling-groats " spent in ale to drinkwith carlings

Northumberland, Cum- berland, Westmore- land, Durham, Yorks., Lanes.

North Yorks.

Lines., Notts., Lanes., Cheshire (Leigh).

Lanes. (Burnley).

Isle of Ely (Wisbech).

North of England.

(N,ewcastle-on-Tyne).

Cumberland.

Northumberland (general) Cumberland, West- moreland, Yorks.

Northumberland wick) . 1 " Carlin" seems to be the Northumberland pronunciation.

(Aln-