FIRST-FOOTING.
First-footing is the visiting of houses just after midnight. In the olden days when whisky was cheap the I'iist-footei usually carried a, bottle, treating members of the household, and being treated by them in turn. In former times great bowls of punch were carried through the streets, and the bearers of them would ask their friends to drink, but rowdyism sometimes resulted and the custom gradually died out.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21165, 23 April 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)
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69FIRST-FOOTING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21165, 23 April 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)
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