Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1911 — Holy Rood Day. [ARTICLE]

Holy Rood Day.

Holy Rood day was formerly a festival for British schoolboys, Yho were granted a holiday, without getting up a strike, .for the purpose of going nuttiag. At Eton the boys had to write LOthi verses about the fruitfulness of autumn or the cold of the coming winter before they were allowed to gather the nuts, which they .had to share with their masters. This anniversary should Inspire the city corporation and the London county council to replant the nut bushes in Epping forest and the recovered remnaat of Halsault forest, of which they hkye the management The hazel is supposed to have been extirpated from the royal forest of Waltham, to prevent the "tall deen*> being disturbed by nutting parties of noisy apprentices from London. At present there is only ope sut bush in Epping forest, and not eve* one la Halnault r * Tit . J A :... . . •uA'iblikl