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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Mon Jun 23, 2014, 07:00 AM Jun 2014

The Ivy or your Breeches!

It was customary in Oxfordshire at Christmastime for the maid servants of the house to ask the master for ivy to dress the house. If he neglected to provide it, the maids will steal his breeches and nail them to the gate nearest the thoroughfare.

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