Show Ua emais UfaIderiJ 81 O1JD INO1DISNTH OK KOK13ION TRAVIS ANDo AND-o BSliHVil I ON LONDON July j tScn llIs a common and pathetic lament of most writer and particularly of those who shut themselves up In the shadowy recedes of some moldy club with the opposite street facade for the limit of their horizon of adult observation that the good old days and their goad old 1 nays nre dead and beautiful things of the put Tlio change In con J + tiom of life And living In nglaml 1 Scotland and Ireland have certainly been grater dur liiE this century than In all the no centuries Immediately preceding And this has of necessity nude obsolete many ancient customs nnd observances that nro perhaps Just as w1I to hue survival In literary mm isctnce only but In most of those thin < holding fast the gentler ADd dearer traditions of i I people In home porting soml And crest religious life there Is a surprising record of sturdy retention Should l only those which hue come under my personal notice since 1867 b r vrn the briefest reference so great a number could be grouped ns to com I Ictely refute those dolorous plaints that he pleasant olden customs are no more rind I am quite sure that should some friendly and enthusiastic pen be devoted l to making an entire volume on the KO JKt of Tanioui llrltlsh Customs s ill In Vogue treating the miller sumuhhtg after the garrulous genial manner ol that wonderful old olla pod ri + In Hones Every Diy Hook the I I gush speaking and reading world of i Jy would find In the result n genuine n I illation of pleasure and surprise In Ireland the tender custom ol con > uylngthc de martin I emigrant is the II kaini today a i during I nil the sjil cycles since Its pc intry were forced to seek homes In fi rlgn lands 1 Its wakes and weddings Its i tales rind frolics l in child I I ran luinlni of the robin annul the wren old countless other customs hundreds of I > ears old are precisely as they were in te heart tho better olden days i her hi the sturdy lillln late of Man vi ry essential torture of Its patriarchal aid 1 representative government estab Is I idinrli In tine tenth century exits I1 11 original simplicity at the present tune Its WIl I wild Court Is llr as a lh0us and years ego maid under the open sky on Its grassy Tynwald Hill Its sheading coroners huh ballllh I limit 1 of Keys 1e sword beirer promulgate pro-mulgate the Iowa Just ns they did In loiiuut King Orry time borne of Its areYstilt ofthtea I atisli clerks are still Islbyof the ole of only those who put out smoke tint Is whoso habitations possess a cliimney Its Inner folk put to sea s tilt goodly prayers nnd palm Its peasant folk in dress rmtums superstitions and pious 1 filth llv I Ires 1 bit Ii cant I ri indifference to the outer world of change and the birdie strain nl old 1 lield true and firm down Ihosl Inlng lint of u thousand years llatlics fo ih new liS then sun its weird eaaltd Inch Vene in each succeeding Uirlsimai tide that comes And who shall truly say that the land I 1 1 o cakes has II lost its tine rdt customs I unit tender supeistillons altogether IVinat a host 01 genial custom still cling to these stern omit fine fold through the Inlltuncc of their gold nccbors the beneficent little llrownlcs alone Mike merry of It as you may the household taciturn bron rreI still hsol Its I help ful 1 place In the hearts of the people be yond the Ijk l and lheIweed He I Is never Idle in all good office to the lowly home of the countryside u he re you never ela f of Imdiiig himIf IOU do not inter his nalm in the spirit of civil and scollmg Iherc In each simple home and heart ho sits enthrall id uith every nttributeof benevolence and affection He not only works with giant might to assist In ploughing the land harvesting the crops guarding the grain and minding the herds but In every little household 1 dt drudgery of gold I I wife and bairn be lends a helping hind No 111 nb come gult that ln he 1 II liar fended iiI i-iI crudest touch No sorrow cm fill upon the household whose hurt would not be deadlier wero It not for his kindly and palliative powers And In all the glorious I old land o cakes his gentle Inlliiencc I I ldla test 1 to every peasant I joy As the burn springing frum the misty crag rimmed carries of the north des I tend and water the welcoming plains of the lowlands the endless streams of Gaelic superstition I descend from the I weird and misty ftilidki of the crofters ancient homes and the centuries old iljthaiis and render perennial the low Iindj ruall of Scottish folklore and w beloved olden ways Lit all doubters of the existence In Holland of most ancient customs and pas 1 lines step into the great harm I kltch ens ol the Lothlins at Hallowmas I Eve I Let I then nt Auld Kceklen ancient Cross nt midnight ol nny New leafs Io learn slice a Scottish llogminiy rulyli I let them In spring mid sum u n rod I autumn follow the kecneud nrn j irmed golfer or know the thrill of 1 IIIIr i curling Joys tet I them visit lint nat I indent and glorious of Scottish i i llicSt I Gem o cattle fair of Kelso I R 3etlT i reinne i the fwied until Cevlot mangle noun i hstoilc waters let 1 them wander t at denying realm of Glps > dom I bm4 I old elholm hidden Irom both lngul > h and ScottUh eyes in the inures ii tame > rcv6omt lilvot HUNnnd see tie fasten I Rust gates of Iloivmont He In February almost as ancient as tic Iiviots thenuelvos nnd sn heavy tough and brawny tint the spirit ol battle bat-tle I and the itrenUh of glints urn rcqulr Mie lien r J rfi i d to withstand them Or still let them wind to old Iliulck town nnd slew melhlng that church nnd state could eHr put down HIP annual Common Ridings and ns the Cornell In mounted L f tl thu thrill 01 > the hero dnys uitliin Im i ns Hogg a soul stirring lines Muni of liveries slain at I In Idcnl Mot to rude mill linro our Cnmmon irt from thousands of borderers t goats nnd they will know that the 111 of old In million feeling pas rune and venerated custom Is the same trdayus long long before the solemn In I ague and covenant > own In scarred and earth rent old Cornwall lllile indeed has been any m nncr of change for hundred of > Cars Iniunliln the memory of those now II i t when old folk were constant y < Uing In their ancient languigt H rnnark ewe nil no cca ver yen pobli Yun1 I Cornish Is nil I forgot with I they r g f b rF y rang peoplel but there has been nod no-d one to lament In truth the departure of old customs In the riiitxl trot I I ol lnnJre fees I Iol ln and Pen Sea whit a knot of these dear Old 1 1 drolls and humeri hut a Ice out of hundreds even a Vinkw can And And remember The Takln Sunday wnen nil the lads and lasses < < meet 10 select piirdnen for Milan rherry fair that mOlt beloved and ancient I fair at Prate the I gtowdtr selling and growler or suubbmv dy the watching over night for the May days coming I the blessing ol op ire Hew on Si Jamess Day 1 and ar Christ I I mat lime rook day on the great estates when all the peaMnt lolk can shoot rooks to their limn content MIl lusurljle In put yc made of the joung rooks for A fortnight thereuller rob milling rI tint ferucin cnntent I between l Cornlsll lids and unite as wonderful kiteflying by grove old miners II nl Immortal custom of roamers of bestowing bestow-ing gifts to the flint herons i met when returning from a chr ilenlng the Inking Ink-ing the New ear Into houses Invarl ably by men first on account ol the III IUCK always following a wonmninccl denial first entrance A custom nhn 11 as universal In Srotlmd Irrlmd and some portion of the north of England thesnturnilla of llouc at lllelton I CAh ed Furry flora Day A < nncient AS the lucky Itself and the huern uf Carr lnggtad and Iortlmilnlntter Hills St I tea And their horn lilonting and bu > li avlnr ns the shoals of pile hers are sighted I I Then there are tin lltlhm fans AS In Ireland and the Scottish Highlands I older than t I UirlttlAiilty Itself the lunch tI nliHi or slrsta ol the Cornish miner n bite gnusanil below the h tngrom fair 1 or wild bntlxitk convo > mg b > child reo of all vagabond Irnvvli ig shown the wiping of sun shoe by the pilcher parkligfi < liwln of bt Ives or diubling I the alrangesssiloe with I oil Ji for whlrliflhallitownfor r luck of the air in lids that feed and I clothe the poor the pitchers mint be pild or n hiittllnr urn ducking will follow the very ancient harvest home custom of cr > lng the neck which consists of elcMtlng a small sheaf of the hest had of grain line I times nnd cmng the Neckl as n token tint I HIP field Ii Is done nnd ln n signal I furfarmshde1lenerodty and jollity and those quaint I old cmtoms nt Garnish funerals ol carrying the box the cullin laying I out the r > corpse walchln which ht nearly equivalent i In all essentials to the Irish wake the display nl the blerers bearers and their unique colhn tackle the flow weird psalm chanting processloilils I In 3I a the churchyard tin walling of nil females nl the church the compensation ol the passon In coin In the pnsence nJ I cl of the multitude I the finil cheer n of the mourners at the homes i the latter and I the gallons Je ihinegruni nt the I public house over shirr the lamented Coden Jack is paid the tJ I Uheit eulogy known to Cornish geinix 3 tnoiJ Ha III nglind I I generally the great nuns I her of old customs sun h Ing and almost al-most prcvilllng Is far more remtrkable to those who will see than can the nbsnce of their like be cither sulking or lamentable save to those of completely com-pletely opaque vision In modern Lon li olrn eorr I modern J I eo don modern ns Paris or New York In inoslul its cwrtlu characteristics rl lr tel g enS there are no end of nncient customs still I in vogue especially among the ancient I guilds and among the ruticircs of society from the cottermongers nnnual outlandish parade tu the moors I Mayors banquet l There I Is a no ireatcr nest ol these odd old cercmonhls and things than ma > nt any time be observed obser-ved In and I about parliament and the house of lords while for every hull dozen court ceremonials In vo uc during dur-ing the lime of Llliabeth that have been discarded any person ot Intollixence can point out a score cqu ill antique curious and 1 some might insIst ridicu lour which r have been dauntlessly I re tilned As I have previously shown In those articles English villages and I village life are In most particulars nsulmrmlig and characterful 01 they were any time at or beyond a century ago The cm toms remain with these practically same and the change In essentials Is r largely i In the Imagination ol those who i removu to the cities and who are themselves them-selves subject to such radical change tint their loaner uvuuclal environment ma andmrdclonned 5n seems mean anil dclormed from the new unit wonderoiii show lint cumlnr directly to lime most Important I and effective than trallon that can be mule tike life In I about the great rnglish k101r urII or for that caller Scottish and Irish noblimen estates As Ilrlllsh Inslltu lions and sociology I M at these provide I the I highest I possible example hhilh I hew exceptions such as the discontlnu ones of homcbrewlng of ale nnd the provision of A i > erv mis hall In place of the common tible the entire regime of these > lendld places rimams the lam as In the time when the old 1 robber barons I fortllied tone barrels with ditches around them were transformed Int i princely Utabelhlan I castle or hall hslhn nearly tarry detail of relations between be-tween lord and Itiiiil between tenant and hind In thin management of the home demesne In the force ol retainers and < I their duties from steward or agent down past head I + forester and under foresters for-esters head gamekeeper hel eri and belters held gardener nnd under gar < lellers lodge keepers and All rouse suvints there remilns strong and fixed and seemingly unihan ablc every olden custom oUervance duty gratuity and I pleasant or unpleasant astociitlon of master mind man tint have for nearly a quarter of a thousand years provide I the most Intcmlmg rages of njhsh I I secured liliriture and securi < l tune almmt un shaken admirnllon II not always affection affec-tion of those who hive despite nil political turllloll bald the IIrhioh IIIItion together all of which ls I not III deleno of s sscent but lire statement of n hula f rre let mi i practical la uiusirniiun I of i a most Interesting sociological spvctaclo Generalizing there are imiiiinerib ancient customs and oUervances re malnlngin nglaud I peculiar to Its pea pin which nro almost as tmconscloui as hdrlekS rime I greatest bust of these ire of a hal religious and half social nature solely the outgrowth of the Inn I In-n of the Church of I nglnnd which 1 1 are so much a part ol r iiliml I and 1 individual Inc 1 even among dissenters I that lvl their existence ii l almost I unrec ognltable among the people thimselves lime single Instincu lint the nncient candle and christening feasts and Cer enlOnlos arc greatly rivltcd I and often more Is extravagant Ii thin Ieln foimer 1 have I limes hiard the town crier announcing the nrrlvat the COAch at old 1 arivick town and grotesquely uniformed Sergeants at Man rohm redbreab they Are lo ally CilleJsindc aloul within the walls 01 am itnt Lomlcm rry precisely AS they + did before the long s cge Derby Day the memorable movable feast and ounng and the statutory least of the T fih r 1lg tll Twelith ol August are religiously kept Parliament nlay adjourns for the first and nothing but i Impending I nallons1 n calamity could tempt it In meet at the time dedicated to the opening slaughter ol grouse Nearly all the old university and Eng gush public school observances And customs are Intact teryhody know that Guy Piwkis Is annually oHullly and literally I starched for In Ihe cellars ol parliament house before the opening of parliament The ancient custom IU of dolelng find mid clothing the poor Is still observed on Si Thomas P ty In Kent I That unimpeachable custom of universal gaining which in 187 alone brought me mtilonal treasury revenue fQ ji uaoouo seems to br ively I tuld In I ulaeii ems n Over at great Yaiinoulh hy the sea yo will mill ImJ In genrril use the fam ins ancient tsmwhteled Yr mojih cart lithe narrow and low I and with shafts AS lung AS A Cuban tilnte At Coventry the town council meets in St Marys Hall A structure built for this self same purpose rue > eArs Ago and many uf the oldest lerernonlcs Are prm rvud wlillu every year brings Its tad l dodlvA processionals upon which I leepiug r rook with woodenheads i wooden-heads and letting ryes look dun tngliah lovers a ill run sway to gel nurried after she rISO lashiim uf constnt before witnesses at Grelna Green Over In Dtrbyshln U still rplemlnlly olive the ancient and ucautimlceienioiiy uf wtll dressing and in the hear of Wiirdswurlha land ices de the very spot where the grand ulmt ulnger hn may be Annually seen that nwcetest ei all iilous pastoral customs rushLtir use a ceremony perhaps a thousand years odder than CnrtsiUmtr itself There art more not cross buns now sold every Goal lrtdnr In Kugland l IhAII were ever disposed lIon Hist day I b fore the far fornlalin i Who ran clone I 1ds eyes or his > ockel to that hoary tl I nttluh custom I I 7fk tipping whirfi Holds l the classes end I IIIISMS no firmly logelher That glorious fjunuhl uf childish pleasure tins Punch anJ Judy show nourishes everywhere And In blessed youth perennial here I ls I a hundred limes the crass country riding that there was a century Ago SOle lime sinit I figured out Irom reliable ilnttt that the rentals ol shooting and fishing privileges In Scotland alone nnnuallv exceeded I t469 61 J or fl 300 oool hVhmot must tney be for the Inured kiiiKdoms and who can truly sn > that t hues mot andent and insplratlng of Iliitlsh sports I are Islllng Into decay What would the lays And youth ol Eng und soy to the Assertion that hare and hounds football cricket and even wrestling and pintini the stone were not Inimeasiirably I more universal i and unnfully now done mill of yore And last because one has to stop somewhere innrccltil which briefly made would fill every column of ibis paper II would not tie n venturesome thing lor one who h id tramped the length nnd hreadlh of she Ilrlllsh Isle as I have done to rxpresa the firm belief r 1II Uo to one there Is I today more linking clatter of e1 hoof more lj jingling I of better harness more rallllng supcrH coaches IInd merrier notes runt bugle alllll hwuu nnd thlt too eVIf > whit lor pleasure along the iirand hedge bordered highways I high-ways of Saxons Ciiela und I Celts than were ever known in llMiltii palmiest l olden coaching dijsl liixiAH IH I WAKKUAN I LAN J l > rffiH tonoiilrnl twslc lor Imllne 4 > KIlr Coon 1 IMJ C eo VV mnrnl 1 To tied grain tu Imnim It Is brat to luvuu Hur n pen or corner of u Held Uttnl fur this IIUIIIOM MI start the tussle iruij Iwvn is s 11 Holiluc i < to feed Inu Icon Iji mitts llMionnr mny bunwily divided oft anl l In lane feint A holuroil paN where the Hock may U In the Mauls emcee A she tr ahlbiiaa htdtne teem 14 I IIl1dln crane C HorINa mtkIs I II 111lehl roll K liablt of WlUrin ahonll AtIootI l l Tho aliuplMt way of making u Isiub creep Is to take two stripa long enough to reach nrrata the corner of tin jwn annul nlruiiK enough to hold 1 1 stlflly the narrow liprislit plccra I tout sluiulil lw imllwl to tin m Moat one frail alert nt first An tin I nbiKTow Un > iac alitlwwii tho iij righla must 110 t hwn1 An InK In-K < nlun mill v nry useful constriicllun rpccltlly iluvlswl for Ihla pnr M It shown In thu IllcIr It call In readily seen from the Illustration how the also ol the olmegu + a lrtI hr I Costly clwngnl by ift lrt I alditing tarn peg at J Dy doiruj that the I eliding frunn 11 I is I Inured and tlut throws the iiprlkht full n D closer 01 farther apart Tin M nt > of the plan It one Inch n to tint Tho franiuarurk i of lha creep Is made of light Hut Iru Ilnl The ii right and liorlr ntal rullins nro nuda of laurel stool 1 alIIt hllI hiti lu dlAiuetur The crwp Is I a fat 4 I Indus high sail 1 4 feet t Inches wide Ilio utallonorj nj right rollers nn n foot nlrt nnd t feet long Thu Illiiklruil shows tho creep 010llt0ll M wldo us yanoiWe i Tlic two end ntrlps of room IIM ixui Ul so tbiit tho erncp inaj Iwr a 111 driven Into ho ground and lo I mlnir n buard partition from ellhi aldo 1 it la a nay bin Winnie n email niuirtuirut for thu lambs etcher In the alt or hir ida liniilo tin n mincnt for the lambs we have u sinull 1 wu I li n Ironifli tint u in chilly suited f r foiling I lamb It Itt firs from an nlmarj grain trough fui 1lInll grain 10 sheep In that n narrow drip runs nloiiK ho top of the trongb shout night luhos mare the center 01 the tart uf thi trough tlwt hells the Kraln Thin Is 1 tu keep the InmlM out ot w101l 111 SIo rrI lie trough In crowding I for thrir M thvy world < llld t Into the trough with their fort and spill hiss fowl If It won not for this arnuiHsnuent ProfiMor J A Cr lg Isn meta I Jirlin it Station tithing Ills llobly A frmg Islan 1 man Jr Jackson lan l can c-an enlhimlastlo brwdnr of ixinlos Hlict laud I 1ml mil WII Tho llnriil N w Yor1r from which our Illuktra lIonl Is 0011 I nl bus tin follow inzi 11 Iwlby rune Ink I n tiC ti-C ullent nnturo I h I Thin Is i HiiKir Hi I I 1 I land man 4 yeaIi I r i teen Aud dtVtlopwl l nun i Ihllt tin iloolor tt u n 11 > < oot1 i rai rims ground without fUinu or thnwini Any weight upon the lull hone 1 his Is I A gave WAjr to side n hobby Im p it nodes perftct control And siw It off to the lest I ftdnsntiuto sod still do not mjurt II soul > rid It to death I m t 1 t FI mw tnptlM 5155 II nn The pony brwdlnK I i i its In > rofll ablt to thoM who nn u r r rod 1 It And aNt properly tel to cut i t t Them Is A nmruiuu tar dwarf I n inlii Time bruitf UMbiihpriil 1 III I I ih imllnary shred horse nnliw f r n > trlor ituitr srlll bring 01 r i mary OPI I I A hnnimd of the I ti 1 Hows n1 I oat In the paddock t 11 r finiiA nlr I turn to oIIPUbe ey n I I 11 Inly f In slat i that thnw pofilM J nor iIl I riOT to their i blicxur tettrmn In std i I nnri thry tee I no whit I bthlnd tin Indent r hortM In In-dent It l It clAlwtd lir tan I etlIII lid I I can drive soar 1011111 in I leas scum n I tflllll of tanIa thnn < nr i U I niAilo by n tram of bones Ti rune t null Alii wiry and while th > t truvil I to a bastes the IwnMr 1 i nor r tin they t can bop At It fr i I i uucnllse huui For Inttlllif II n I r yanh i a Beet to tmlnlnff th yr nnr sn nt 1 oral In klnlrssaawlldfis rnbinr d pstthuk they are far better en urplI 1 u a rulo A rerarttr of n New V t truly peer = lately iltacribnl the < I o it m u v bnwl of tattle III Sntt lM 1 1 rl 1 n always plump The ins sir ma i run iwotll tie haity ilar irll ltO II rte 1 Inn I bin Shut land JKMI nlvsajrs 1 1 u i I ht eeysr know hun 1 uuum hut snag aye have In this com trv all I tin oflloM como to bo filled BfK 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