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Show Cannulas I varsreaiia. Tlio old an 1 idemaut custom of deck Ingniir house un 1 thnrchia at Chrlat-inua Chrlat-inua wlt'i t virgrenis la derived from an-ciiut an-ciiut li-uibm practices. When lm! 1 Ism ul. Uil thu liou-wa utro ilukii) with iiergreetia in Devomber that tho )lvan spiilta inlghl reilr to theiii nu I roiualn unnlppid wltji froat nnd mil wliuls tititll it milder teason hid renew, d the foliage of llielr d irllug nlaalni. Tin onttlng uf the till. Hi toe was u tin liiott) of great aolemnlly with onr nni.ii nt an oestors TheisMqilH went in l roc-seion. Tho lairds wall id dr-l singing cautlclna and Ii) lliuel Ii Imriild lawnleil thrii Druids with iinphiuents forlhepuiiHM. linn followed the piiuce of the Iirul la, in couiintiied hy all the taaiple 11., mount eil the oak, and cutting the mlitlototi w Itli it gul leri slokle, l rceente.1 It p. tho otlur Drulda, who reo-lttd Itwlth great reipicl, mid on the Unit tin) of tho ).-ar dbitri) uUal It among the ieoplu as it mi creland holy plunt,or)ing, "Itin iuIh tleloo for the new )earlN lleciuto It waa used in the pagan ritea of the Druids, the mlatbtw hai Holer la-en Used In thu dn outlon of (hristhui ihutclies, aud it, thi retort, lui 1 Its pliioii analgiuHl it liithekitihens aud luiila where It was hung up in I great auto witlllta white b, rrlia, with th. tliirin nttmlii Itu lith t th. luld m ho was not k i id tinier n ut Uirtai ttti .. would not b. marrie.1 In thatsiur, t St Iaila fll..l..U.i,i,vrt |