Show f Old I Yuletide Custom I r Passing assing in England An old custom now almost extinct existing only In certain portions of rural England was vas that of the Christmas Christ Christ- S jS Sd mas waits walts who went from house to house singing carols or discoursing music from various Instruments not r r always harmonious and yet et under the 4 holy Impression of t the e season the wild minstrelsy rang out upon the thet 4 t frosty midnight air all and fell upon the tho I j lIst listening ear with pleasure Not more I Ii t i i than forty years ago In Great Grent Britain I I It If was a common thing for tor these singers singers sing sing- I ers of the holy night to pass along the streets sheets pausing here and ond there to render ren ren- der some e song appropriate to the sea sea- 4 son The olI origin ln of this custom may undoubtedly be traced trace J to the Gloria In the song which the angels sang at the thet birth of the Redeemer near Bethlehem r n 0 |