✅ Many of our 👥⬅️ old 🧓 customs 🛃 are fading away into the dim 🔅 mists of antiquity, and ➕ all but the name 📛 will soon 🔜 be forgotten. This is much to be regretted, because they were attended with a great deal of pure enjoyment, and ➕ were looked 👀 forward ⏩️ to by the people 👥 for weeks before the event. One 1️⃣ of these is the old 🧓 custom 🛃 of strewing rushes, and ➕ its attendant ceremony of the rush-bearing 🐻, with its quaint rush-cart 🛒 and ➕ fantastic morris-dancers 👯. Once 🔂 common to the whole country, it now lingers only in a few isolated places, principally in the hill districts of Lancashire and ➕ Yorkshire.
