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Show wassail flagon, usually of tremendous proportions, and hnyijii filled it to the brim would pass i n$md to his men. At the English co.irt the wassail bowl was the chief requisition ou New Year's eve and Twelfth Night. In the time of Henry VII the steward was enjoined on these occasions, when he entered with te spiced ale and other smoking beverages, to cry "wassil" three times, to which the royal chaplain had to answer with a carol or song.-"- i Philadelphia Times. I Saxon New Year Customs. Seldon in his "Table Talk" says: "It was a custom of Wassil innes among the Saxons before tho time of Hengist for tiie Mosaic pledge to be used by all, to drink on New Year's day without it being be-ing thought an insult." The Scandinavians Scandina-vians at the clone of their battles at this season held monster feasts to which everybody ev-erybody was invited. The affair was purely a drinking bout, during which the war chief or lord would take the |