NEW YEAR’S EVE
WHAT ARE YOUR GOOD RESOLUTIONS?
Are you going to sit up and' watch the New Year m to-night? This is a very, old custom in England, and so is thdt J other excellent custom of making l food resolutions for the coming year. wonder if you are going to make any, or, having made them, going to keep them?—like Monty and Toby? Although long ago Wassail, or Good Health, was kept in every Englishman’s house, the New Year was always celebrated most by the Scots. At twelve o’clock a hot pint was drunk by the' Scottish family, to the accompaniment of a dance and this quaint seng; “Weel may we a’ he, ? 111 may we niver see, Here’s tae the king " i An’ the gude companie!” , : In the old days, too, gifts were exchanged between friends on New Year’s Day.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12643, 31 December 1926, Page 16
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143NEW YEAR’S EVE New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12643, 31 December 1926, Page 16
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