One good old custom for cheering had harvesting times is still remembered in Suffolk, that of the "Hallooing Largess" as it was called, which followed the harvest home or horkey feast; largess being the money collected for the revels by the harvestlord. Bloomfield describes how, at .-shout midnight, under the light of the Harvest Moon, all the fcasters would adjourn to a neighbouring hill, to give the largess-call. Their long-drawn, melodious "Holla, holla, hollaLargess'." -would be heard at a great distance on a still night, making the welkin ring. Another round or two of "brown October" would bring the cereinonv to an unsteady end.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18220, 3 November 1924, Page 5
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