The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-22 00:00:00

Eittrature.

VA RI I•:'l'I ES

MAHOMETANA AT PRATES.—Once I remember asking,
from hoe who were ri.t praying, how many koss it might

I received for answer, " ten ;"
when a man, praying in the corner, snapped one of the

be to a certain villag

et's titles in
rrls.

ad called out. " fourteen !'

Major
OLD EASTER CUSTOMS OP LANCASHIRE. &c.—A

the peunl
and s

Easter holydays among
Staffordshire, Warwickshire,
tit', 5, the custom of heaving or lifting
r liftinst the women in a

In L meashi r
other

prevailed ; the men heaving
chair on Easter Monday ; ant

i the women doing the same
allowing. At the end of the

by the men on the Tues,

ged to r

a forfeit

ly kissed by his lifters.
times this took place
doors ; the custom in

pri4ht in a chair,
ly on the bearers'

while in otl
hands and I

i another period

e men took

on Aluti

)t the women,
next day. returned the compliment: a forfeit
in redemption of the
)y Durandus,

avine to I,e paid in eitt
wt

I artid

MI it was the ettoom, on the second day
he women to beat their husbands, and

after E-is

on the t

ieir wives

Co in the county
that, if the young men ►

e is a custom.

I catch a hare and

give the.

brine it to the parson of the parish before ten o'clock, the
_ _
ad, a hundred of
-Book of

parson Is

their br

fast, and a groat in mone

BURNS AND HOGG.-I

t think that any two poets

n en tth an

r was from youth to man-

,nent and despon-

re and difficulty

dforce. Hogg,
seemingly with.

the slate,"

had a dislike to cor-

HOW MR. CURSTY SANDBOYS CHANGED HIS

CLOTHES,

(From " 1851; or. The Great Exhibition.")

In a few minutes Mr. Sandhogs returned to the kit-
chen, clad in his best suit, to receive the opinion of his
wife as to the improved character of his appearance. Mrs.
Sandhogs twisted her " guidrean" round and round, tried
to pull the wrinkles out of his coat behind, pinched up the
frill of his shirt, and ultimately pronounced that she thought
he would do—at least, thank guidness, she said, he was
clean and sweet once more. Then, having kissed him,
she despatched him on his errand after the deaf Postle-
thwaite.

Mrs. Sandhogs was still engaged in the interesting pro-
cess of unpacking her trunks in the kitchen, when a
hawker of flowers, with a basket of all colours on his
head, stopped before the railings, and observing the lady
down stairs, immediately commenced cryi g---" Fine
flowers ! sweet-scented flowers! handsome flowers I—all
a-blowing—all a-growing I"
Elcy, observing the bright scarlet blossoms of the gera-
niums, and the long crimson drops of the fuchsias swing-
ing backwards and forwards in the wind, and the pink
balls of roses, nodding at every motion of the huckster's
head, called out to her mother to come and see what
beautiful plants the man had got.
The street-seller no sooner caught sight of Mrs. Sand-
boys, than he shouted again*" Fine flowers ! sweet-
sc.mted flowers. Take any old clothes for 'em, ma'am
You may have the pick of t_he baske_t tor_ an old coat."
Mrs

Sandboys shook her head, but the street-seller
eeing her still look up, put his basket down on the pave-
ment, and began trying to have a deal with her down the