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Show Observances During Lent. Tliccr are many old customs uf giving giv-ing or scattering money or bread and cake at aome timo during Kent. In Home placea on t'altn tiuuday rakci wero east from the .tecple. of parish churches to bo .crnnibled fur by small boys, to tho amusement of the bystanders. by-standers. Kays an old writer: 'Then calio. must bo ramp out of tho .teeplo, that all tho boys In the parish must Mo acrainlilliig together by the eares, ivl al the parish fuilelh a laughing." Henry VIII ordered thai the carrying carry-ing of pulms should not bo dlscontiti-lied dlscontiti-lied ,hnt this was sik.u Ml to the people peo-ple as a voltiutury .erviee, and only tlio more or les. secular custom, con-lus con-lus ted with it wero continued. Youim pcoplo In certain part, of England even to this day go a palming on tlx Saturday heforo I'ulm Sunday, aud In certain rural chitrcheu of England slip, of tho willow branches with the willow buds, which tho Amerlrun child calla "pussee" (pusses), are .tuck up. |