Show Gift-Giving Is Old Custom in Scotland Now Year's day is more generally celebrated as a day for gift giving than is Christmas in A family get-together on the eve of the New Year was quite a ceremony in old There would be the preparation of the a kettle filled with spiced At the stroke of each member of the family would take a drink of the and there would be a general round of handshakes and good After good wishes and drinks had been passed the family elders would take up the kettle and go out to visit the neighbors to offer them sips from the If they were tile first to step into the house of a it was deemed very Important that they not come but with their hands well signifying the full year that lay ahead of the house's |