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To give a dog a lamb-bone (it will go mad) - - -

LOCALITY.

South Wales.

{h) Things enjoined or recommended.

To rise before the sun and ascend a height. The people gave three somersaults -

The last married man pro- claimed the hour of ris- ing overnight ; delin- quents were put in the stocks, questioned, and their right hands coated with mud. Girls have to give a kiss or a shoe -

Youths in the stocks (as above) had a leg held up and a pail of water poured down it -

The victim's hand was

beaten with a branch of

gorse - - - -

To wear something new :

else the birds would spoil

your clothes - - -

To sing carols (obs.)

(c) Special Viands.

Eggs at every meal

" Yellow " cake (a sort of

seed cake) - - - Servants have an egg with

breakfast Everything cooked must

have eggs in it

[d) Easter Eggs.

Collected by children with rhyme and clapper -

Denbighshire gollen).

(Llan-

Carnarvonshire(Conway).

Bangor and Carnarvon (1732).

Glamorgan.

General. North Wales.

English Border. English Border. West Denbighshire. English Border.

North Wales (Anglesey, Carnarvonshire, Den- bighshire).