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so now, to pluck the leaf in every case where the leaflets were of 
equal number, and to say — 
' Even-ash, I thee do pluck, 
Hoping thus to meet good luck ; 
If no luck I get from thee, 
I shall wish I 'd left thee on the tree.' " 
These lines are recorded by Mr. Hunt in his Drolls, fyc, of Old 
Cornwall, already quoted, but with a slight variation in the last 
line. (See p. 421.) 
The Rev. T. F. Thiselton Dyer says that it is supposed in some 
places that — 
"With a four-leav'd clover, douhle-topp'd ash, and green-topp'd seave,* 
You may go before the queen's daughter without asking leave." 
English Folk-Lore, p. 13. 
11. Bowls made of the Ashen-Tree : — Mr. Jabes Allies, writing 
to the Athenceum for January 2nd, 1847, No. 1001, p. 18, says . . 
" A gentleman who lately resided at Droitwich, near Bromsgrove 
[Worcestershire], has informed me that, till within the last twenty 
years, the children of that district used on St. Catherine's Day to 
go from house to house * Catoning and Clemening,' as they called 
it, and sing the following lines : — 
' If you 're within, 
Open the door and let us in ; 
And when we 're in 
We won't come out, 
Without a red apple 
Rolled up in a clout. 
< Roll, roll, 
Gentle butler, fill the howl ; 
If you fill it of the best, 
God will send your soul to rest ; 
But if you fill it of the small, 
The devil take butler, bowl, and all. 
' Our bowl is made of the ashen-tree, 
Pray, good butler, drink to we ; 
Some for Peter, and some for Paul, 
A few red apples will serve us all.' " 
12. Ash-Trees and Witches: — "At Oldenberg," says the Eev. 
* " Seaves," he says, " are the rushes of which rush-lights or rush-candles 
are made." 
