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Sunday School Lessons From a Curious Lincolnshire Custom
A miscellany column discusses Sunday School lessons and a Palm Sunday custom in Lincolnshire where a man cracks a whip and stores thirty small coins in a purse before the lesson. It notes the antiquated nature of the practice, connects it to the term god whip, and mentions related remarks on John Bright, politics, and Tolstoy.
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Witlomrat
Sored
Bie
Wren
By Pean
Lincolnshire
Scotland
Burts
John Bright
Birmingham