New Curiosities of Literature And book of the Months volume 1
New Curiosities of Literature And book of the Months volume 1
George Soane
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Out of this each person in company takes what is called a clayen cup — i. E. An earthenware cup, full of liquor, and standing under each of the more fruitful apple trees, passing by those that are not good bearers, he addresses it in the following words : Health to thee, Good apple tree ! Well to bear, pocket-fulls, hat-fulls, Peck-fulls, bushel bag fulls. And then drinking up part of the contents, he throws the rest with the fragments of the roasted apple at the tree. — At each cup the company... set up a shout. ''* In Devonshire a similar custom prevailed, of which the following account is given by another correspondent of the bland Sylvanus Urban, — " On the eve of the Epiphany, the farmer, attended by his workmen, with a large pitcher of cyder, goes to the orchard, and there encircling one of the best among the trees they drink the following toast three several times : Here's to thee, Old apple tree ! Whence thou mayst bud, and whence thou mayst blow ! And whence thou mayst bear apples enow !
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