 | George Young - Whitby (England) - 1817 - 512 pages
...candle is also kept to ensure good luck ! — On christmas morning;, before break of day, all is in an uproar; numbers of boys sally forth, and go from house...again, till the family awake and admit the clamorous visiter, who, if he be the first, is taken into the house, and treated with money, cheese and gingerbread,... | |
 | John Cole - England - 1828 - 202 pages
...prevails, by numbers of boys going round from house to house, rapping at every door and roaring out, "I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year:"...the clamorous visitor; who, if he be the first, is treated with money, pr cheese and gingerbread, which are also distributed, hut less liberally, to subsequent... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1828 - 758 pages
...prevails, by numbers of boys going round from house to house, rapping at every door, and roaring out, ' I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year,'...the clamorous visitor, who, if he be the first, is treated with money, or cheese and gingerbread, which are also distributed, but less liberally, to subsequent... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1828 - 720 pages
...prevails, by numbers of boys going round from house to house, rapping at every door, and roaring out, ' I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year,'...admit the clamorous visitor, who, if he be the first, ii treated with money, or cheese and gingerbread, which are also distributed, hut less liberally, to... | |
 | English essays - 1828 - 714 pages
...prevails, by numbers of boys going round from house t« house, rapping at every door, and roaring out, ' I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year,'...words are vociferated again and again, till the family »wak» and admit the clamorous visitor, who, if he be the first, is treated with money, or cheese... | |
 | Francis Kildale Robinson - English Language -- Dialect -- Yorkshire - 1855 - 240 pages
...a merry Christmas, That round the table go. God bless your kith and kindred, And a happy New year." It is unlucky not to reward the first set of those...gingerbread, which are also distributed, but less To CHUNTER, to murmur, to have " the last word," in a contention. liberally, to some of the succeeding... | |
 | Christopher James Davison Ingledew - North Yorkshire (England) - 1858 - 432 pages
...out, " I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year ; please will you give me a Christmas box :" which words are vociferated again and again, till...first, is taken into the house, and treated with money, cheese, and cake, and is called the lucky bird. No person must presume to go out of doors till the... | |
 | Christopher James Davison Ingledew - North Yorkshire (England) - 1858 - 456 pages
...out, " I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year ; please will you give me a Christmas box :" which words are vociferated again and again, till...first, is taken into the house, and treated with money, cheese, and cake, and is called the lucky bird. No person must presume to go out of doors till the... | |
 | Manners and customs - 1897 - 1030 pages
...uproar, by numbers of boys going round from bouse to house, rapping at every door, and roaring out, " I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year," which words were vociferated :igain and again till the family awoke and admitted the clamorous visitor, — who,... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - Folklore - 1900 - 582 pages
...uproar, by numbers of boys going round from house to house, rapping at every door, and roaring out, " I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year," which words were vociferated again and again till the family awoke and admitted the clamorous visitor; who, if... | |
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Christmas morning, before break of day, the greatest uproar prevails, by numbers of boys going round from house to house, rapping at every door, and roaring out, ' I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year... 
