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CLASSIFIED CATALOGUE OF
BRAND MATERIAL.

(Continued from p. 176.)

DECEMBER

may be treated as consisting of the Advent or Preparation season, and of part of Christmastide.

ADVENT.

ENGLAND.

"Martinmas is come and gone
Christmas now is drawing near.
There's no' a piece mutton in a' the house
To serve for Christmas cheer."

Northumberland (Wooler).

Observances. locality.

Marriages (formerly) forbidden, Advent to Hilary Term.

Curfew begins six weeks before Christmas . - - . Salop (Prees).

Bellman proclaims beginning of winter (Dec. 1st) - - - Colchester.

Schoolboys bargain for holidays (see Dec. 6th) - - - - Chesh., Derby and North.

"Curning " (begging for corn) begins ----- Cheshire.

Wassailing began - - Leicestersh. (Claybrook).

1st Sunday in Advent.

Village Feast (bull-baiting up to 1813) - - - - - Penzance.