On Christmasing and Wassailing (William Barnes Society Article); That Girt Big Figgetty Pooden

My Christmas contribution to the William Barnes Society website (click to read)

Illustration for A Wiltshire Bwoy’s Lines On a Girt Big Figgetty Pudden, one of the wonderful descriptions by Edward Slow (the Wiltshire dialect poet) of the Wiltshire ways of keepen woold Crismis up!