At Brighton, on this day, the children in the back streets bring up ropes from the beach. One stands on the pavement on one side, and one on the other, while one skips in the middle of the street. Sometimes a pair (a boy and a girl) skip together, and sometimes a great fat bathing-woman will take her place, and skip as merrily as the grandsire danced in Goldsmith’s _Traveller_. They call the day “Long Rope Day.” This was done as lately as 1863.--_N. & Q. 3rd S._ vol. iii. p. 444. WORCESTERSHIRE. The parish church at Leigh is decked on this day with “funereal yew.” The same custom exists also at Belbroughton in the same county.--_N. & Q. 2nd S._ vol. i. p. 267. YORKSHIRE. In East Yorkshire it was customary to keep a hot-cross-bun from one Good Friday to the next, as it was reputed not to turn mouldy, and to protect the house from fire. Presents of eggs and buns are made on this day.--_N. & Q. 4th S._ vol. v. p. 595. WALES. At Tenby, as late as the end of the last century, the old people were in the habit of walking barefooted to the church--a custom continued from times prior to the Reformation. Returning home from church they regaled themselves with hot-cross-buns, and having tied a certain number in a bag, they hung them up in the kitchen, where they remained till the next Good Friday for medicinal purposes, the belief being that persons labouring under any disease had only to eat of a bun to be cured. About this time many young persons would meet together to “make Christ’s bed.” This was done by gathering a quantity of long reed-leaves from the river, and weaving them into the shape of a man; they then laid the figure on a wooden cross in a retired part of a field or garden, where they left it. This custom is perhaps derived from an old popular popish custom of burying an image of Christ on Good Friday, which is described in Barnabe Googe’s translation of _Nao-Georgus_: “Another image do they get, like one but newly deade, With legges stretcht out at length, and hands upon his body spreade: And him with pomp and sacred song they beare unto his grave.” --Mason, _Tales and Traditions of Tenby_, 1858, p. 19. IRELAND. In the midland districts of Ireland, viz., the province of Connaught, on Good Friday, it is a common practice with the lower orders of Irish Catholics to prevent their children having any sustenance, even to those at the breast, from twelve o’clock on the previous night to the same hour on Friday, and the fathers and mothers will only take a small piece of dry bread and a draught of water during the day. It is a common sight to see along the roads between the different market towns, numbers of women with their hair dishevelled, barefooted, and in their worst garments: all this is in imitation of Christ’s Passion.--_Every Day Book_, vol. ii. p. 411. MARCH 21.] EASTER EVE.