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Show Scotch Unrestreined In Hsv Year's Joy The Scotch, who react with restrained re-strained enthusiasm to Christmas, welcome the New Year with all the joy and merry-making possible to their usually taciturn nature. On New Year's Eve the wassail bowl goes round and round, filled with savory liquid, nostalgically fragrant. Apples floating atop the wassail bowl stir memories of the "apple-howling" "apple-howling" when boys switched the trunks of fruit trees petitioning a 'good howling crop." Somehow the "lamb's wool," as the decoration of the wassail bowl often is called, seems reminiscent of young folks rushing to the nearest near-est spring at the stroke of 12 to drink the "cream of the well" because be-cause the first to do so could expect good luck for the ensuing year. Handsel Monday t h e Monday after New Year's Day is traditionally tradition-ally the "big day" for Scotch boys and girls. |