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... BONFIRE NIGHT. All round the bonfires blazing, Keeping up old customs dear. Young and old around them gather. With a hope to meet next year. Brightly shines the waving fsuthogs A« it’s carried and fro: Plain are heard (he cheers of gladness Simple hearts ...
... MIDSUMMER CUSTOMS. BONFIRE NIGHT LEGENDS. : Midsnmmer Day, ss we regard it, occurs 'upon the twenty-fourth of June, the festival ‘of St John the Baptist. In former ages the B ptist’s feast was celebrated by bontires and ‘torchlight processions, but as ...
... Bonfire Night. A STORY OF ST. JOHN'S EVE. By T. M. HIM.; M.P. No, little care I what gaves.rise to the honoured custom of bonfires on St. John's Eve, nor whether it be Christian or pagan; ell! know is that observance ever brought inn and frolic in its ...
... Beigid. Fart 11. CAMERON OF LOG KIEL. THE STORY OF PRINCE CHARLIE’S MOST CHIVALROUS HIGHLAND FOLLOWER. With a Portrait. bonfire night. A TALE OF ST. JOHN’S EVE. T. M. Hkaly. Also Poems, Paragraphs, Sketches Grave and Gay, and a variety of useful and en ...
... COUNTY CORK. ERlam. Fart 11. 'CAMERON OF LOCHIEL. THE STORY OF PRINCE CHARLIE'S MOST CHIVALROUS HIGHLAND ' With a Portrait. BONFIRE NIGHT. A TALE OF ST. JOHN'S EVE. Br T. M. Poems, Paragraphs, Sketches Grave and Gay, a variety of useful and entertaining general ...
... MIDSUMMER EVE. BONFIRE NIGHT IN MUNSTER. (Statist, ro nut Haasin.) Wherever the influence of the Celtio races spread in Northern Europe, Like the might of some van flowing river Through ..es delight and winter's deny, it left behind the mimicries ...
... ala attended n vet vice There were also monster primemiona aad banqnet. and moet districts io Abcrdtsnshire there were bonfire* night. Tba weather was fine. ...
... celebrations are being gradually effaced and extinroimbed, one alter another, as well. hears now of snap-apple night, bonfire night! They are all thing* the past, too vulgar to be spoken ...
... vain, My darling boy !—my own heart's deli*lit I Mo bhron ! old times will ne'er come again— I court black sorrow this Bonfire Night. The Star of Hope sheds on me no ray— No joy for me in the festive scene; Since the wave of death swept my love away My ...
... had any malice against the deceased, but it was known that he owed a gradge to the policeman, James Duckett, and that on bonfire night he had been heard to make some malicious remarks respecting him. One of these was, “I'll break his head yet.” On the night ...
... came about. CHAPTER IV.—TIIE EVE OF ST. JOHN. ET us go back a little time. It was Bonfire Night, and the little town of Castlebar was all excitement. For Bonfire Night has from time immemorial been the great gala night in that town, and the youthful part ...
... Otherwise not. P. N. —Bonfire night is the remaant of old Pagan custom adapted to Christian celsbrations. The ancient Irish burned fires at the omnmem-e--ment of two out of the three divisions of chcir year. Old bonfire night was June 24th, old style ...