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1. Christmas Customs

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   About two weeks before Christmas the “Mummers” call at the houses in the district. Then they continue calling to different houses until Christmas day. They always come at night. They are grown up boys from the neighborhood. They are dressed in white and wear false faces and hats with ribbons of every colour [color?], and some of them wear straw hats. They say rhymes such as:

   Room, room gallant room

   Give us room to rhyme

   And we’ll show you some activity

   Upon a Christmas time

   For Christmas comes but once a year

   When it comes it brings good cheer

   Here comes I wi’divil [?] a doubt

   If there was twelve in I could

   Knock twenty four out.

   Here comes I Jack straw

   Such a man you never saw

   Through a rock through a reel

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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