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It Is a cutom at Dewbury in Yorkhire, to toll the paing bell on Chritmas Eve at three o'clock in the afternoon. This is called ; and is intended to ignify that when " was born, the Devil died:" a triking though exaggerated way of repreenting the truth that the Birth of our Lord gave the death-blow to the Empire of Satan.

Toll! toll! Becaue there ends to-night, An Empire old and vat:

An Empire of unquetion'd right O'er preent and o'er pat.

Toll! Stretching wide from Eat to Wet, Ruling over ev'ry breat, Each nation, tongue, and cate.