The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-23

an likely 20 be Oeads Of families and
grave old men. The names come along
with them from bQghood and every one
accepts his neigh bOrhood designation as
be does mis- increase Of children or liOcks
aud he rds, ia dignifOd though prideful
content.
some other distinctive ancient customs
are still found in the remoter districts.
The watching Of the dead almost iden-
teal In manner with the Irish wake, is
universal Counting is facilitated by the
household retiring after putting out the
LIGHTS, and leaving the front or love
sick couple upon the "long-settle" of the
'tire-room TO their hearts content, at
which modern delicacy may stand aghast
but this manner Of matings proves sturdy
and true. Funerals furnish heroic feasts.
AT few of the mountain towns "hirin' -
still survives, when the maidens who wish
TO engage at service stand in groups at
the market-placc; but they will no longer
hold Ia their hands the wisp of straw,
which was the olden badge of serVitude.
On Shrove Tuesday the boys still
ferociously play .'Beggarly Scot, "
a game based on the foraVs of the old
time bOrderers. 'Shaking-bottle," con-
tanning decoctiou Of licorice and water,
is common with all children on May day.
KUrn-winniug. or the Harvest Home fes-
tivity, continues general. Youthful pace
eggers' appear a fortnight before Easter
sometimes in grOtesque costumes, and
carol demands for colorcd eggs, which are
never refused. The smiths of the district
will not heat iron or strike nail on Good
Friday, in memory of the nails used in the
cruciiXion; and that beautiful old custom
Of rush bearing, - or strewing the church
with flowers on its patron saints day,
survives only in this almost idyllic and
wholly pastoral region.
The lake district maidens are huge
of frame and fair of form and face,
splendid "Jael Dences" all, brave almost
to fOrwardness in their free, fine spirit and
fearless unconscious ways. / think they
are themOst OutspOken maids of undoubted
virtue | ever knew Returning one even
ing a statesman and several of his family
from a days labor at charcoal burning on
Wasdale Fell, at which | had assisted,
the statesman's father noticing that his
daughter and myself were chatting gayly
together, jocularly teased her with:
Look cot O. thyssel, Betty, or thoo'l
ga sOnSy with gradley writiny MANI
Hold t. noise on the, ladder, will te' ~
she answered him quickly Then she
stepped squarely in the mountain path
beside me and looking me through and
through with her honest eyes of gray,
said almost solemnly: "Id tax you Zone,
him asst STAINS, fadder-if ha' ma ither!"
/ told her quickly as ! could and rather
bluntly, l am afraid, that was not in
position TO carry so much of value out of
the lake country. The .'fadder' thought
it all a great 20, and gurglingly rallied
her with, He ga tn fair snecl1- possett,
Betty!" literally the drink of one turned
from ones door; the cold shoulder. ~
But the girl just trudged along measur-
edly and unabashed, the meanwhile say
ing quietly, and more to herself than to
us, "Aweel aweel! fair anser he gaet!
But ma . s ma t. clean Ned o. Kesick.
perhaps, after all, he is not what he
seems.) What Gods left DOT we cannot
o. put in cen t gradley writin' mani"
And with this comforting reflection to all,
we came into the pleasant dale below and
to the welcome evening meal, the best of
friends together.
EDGAR L. WAKEMAN.