NEW YEAR CUSTOMS.'
I J In some parts of Devonshire there is no washing of clothes, plates, and dishes, or anything else on Now Year's day—the belief being that a person' washing anything on that day will him—_or her—eelf be washed, out of existence before the year ends. On New Year's eve, in, Nottinghamshire, as'midnight approaches, the head, of 4Sa. family deposits a gold coin! outlid* the house, and then shuts and looks. t-MTontor door for the last time that •year. When the New Year's chimes ;h*ve oeaaed he opens the. door again find,- recovers the coin, which is then jmpposed to be endowed with the virtue, ;«|' etisuring a good supply of money fn the household during the year. In $ooth Wales a very ancient custom is Jm children to band together on New morning and parade the streets, by one of themselves, who oar-Hefc-en apple stuck full-of straws (to .thorns), a They .stop before hoaaes, and the apple-bearer sings:— PPiwiah job a happy New Year, of money, and a cellarful &\"''l_f _t_eT« 'Our _noes are dirty—the leather's very 3 thlnj 'Bat-IVe got a pocket to slip a penny in. Please give mc a penny for singing so / W<JL '
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12129, 27 February 1905, Page 7
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