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By S. O. Addy. 



I.— THE OLD TUP. 



EORGE POTTER, of Castleton, told me in 1901 

 that when he was a boy the Christmas guisers in 

 that village were about twenty in number. They 

 wore masks, big hats, and short trousers. 

 At the present time a boy gets into a sack, the top of which 

 is tied in such a way as to represent two ears or horns, or else 

 the sack is surmounted by a real sheep's head. A second boy 

 represents a butcher, and carries a knife in his hand ; a third 

 is dressed like a woman ; a fourth, who has his face blackened, 

 represents an old man, and carries a bowl or basin in his hand. 

 They go from hou.se to house singing the following lines : — 



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As I was going to Der - by up - on a mar-ket day, I 



met the fin-est Tup - sie that ev-er was fed on hay. 



Say 



lay - him, lay - lum, Pit - y - ful lay.lum lay. 



