Rip poll (Eng.) still maintains a custom said to date 1,000 years back. Punctually every night at 9 o’clock the city “wake-man,” attired in official costume, Spears before the mayor’s house and iws three solemn notes on tlio “horn of Eipon,” an instrument decorated with silver badges and with tlio insignia of the trading companies of the City of Spurs. Thereafter ho marches to' the market cross and gives one blast pa bis horn
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Evening Star, Issue 18093, 7 October 1922, Page 12
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74Page 12 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 18093, 7 October 1922, Page 12
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