 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 458 pages
...In order to ensure a good fruit harvest, the following custom is generally kept up in that quarter. On the eve of the Epiphany, the farmer, attended by his workmen, with a large pitcher of cider goes to the orchard, and then, encircling one of the best trees, they drink the following toast... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 672 pages
...In order to insure a good fruit harvest, the following custom is generally kept up in that quarter. On the eve of the Epiphany, the farmer, attended by his workmen with alar^e pitcher of cyiier, goes to the orchard, and then, encircling âĒn* of the best-bearing trees,... | |
 | 1819 - 414 pages
...is generally kept up in that quarter. On the eve of the Epiphany, the farmer, attended hy his men, with a large pitcher of cyder, goes to the orchard, and then encircling one of the hest hearing trees, they drink the following toast three several times : " Here's to thee, old apple... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...We are told by a writer in the " Gentleman's Magazine," 1791, that, in the South-hams of Devonshire, the farmer, attended by. his workmen with a large pitcher of cyder, goes to the orchard, and there, encircling one of the best bearing trees, they drink the following toast three times : â "... | |
 | George Soane - Fasts and feasts - 1847 - 360 pages
...of which the follo'wing account is given by another correspondent of the bland Sylvanus Urban, â " On the eve of the Epiphany, the farmer, attended by...a large pitcher of cyder, goes to the orchard, and there encircling one of the best among the trees they drink the following toast three several times... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 770 pages
...err is human, but to forgive, divine!" M. Mag. Jan. 1814, p. 485. " In the South-hams of Devonshire on the Eve of the Epiphany, the farmer, attended by...a large pitcher of cyder, goes to the orchard, and there, encircling one of the best bearing trees, they drink the following toast, three several times,... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1851 - 768 pages
...err is human, but to forgive, divine!" M. Mag. Jan. 1814, p. 485. " IN the South-hams of Devonshire on the Eve of the Epiphany, the farmer, attended by...a large pitcher of cyder, goes to the orchard, and there, encircling one of the best bearing trees, they drink the following toast, three several times,... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 584 pages
...prevailed, of which the following account is given by a correspondent of the bland Sylvanus Urban. â " On the eve of the Epiphany, the farmer, attended by his workmen, with a large pitcher of cider, goes to the orchard, and there encircling one of the best among the trees, they drink the following... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...a reward for their past labour in sowing the grain.'* 'In the south hams [villages] of Devonshire, cider, goes to the orchard, and there encircling one of the best bearing trees, they drink the following... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1876 - 768 pages
...err is human, but to forgive, divine!" M. Mag. Jan. 1814, p . 4M. " IN the South-hams of Devonshire on the Eve of the Epiphany, the farmer, attended by his workmen, with a large pitcber of cyder, goes to the orchard, and there, encircling one of the best bearing trees, they drink... | |
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Devonshire, on the Eve of the Epiphany, the farmer attended by his workmen, with a large pitcher of cyder, goes to the orchard, and there, encircling one of the best bearing trees, they drink the following toast three several times : 
