School: Newgrove
- Location:
- Lisnageer, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Newburn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1018, Page 122
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- The custom to give presents to each other is kept all over the world. Santa Claus travels all over the world. Children always leave a nice piece of cake for Santa. Before Christmas the shops are decorated in the town and a stock of toys got in. It is a custom for the shopkeepers to give their customers a present at Christmas. The night before Christmas we begin the feast with the result that we are sometimes sick.
On Saint Stephens Day the Wren boys go out and they get a penny at nearly every house. The boys dress as girls very often. They say, "Up with the pot and down with the pan a penny or twopence to bury the wren."
