"Here we bring new water from the well so clear, For to worship God with, this Happy New Year; Sing levy dew, sing levy dew, the water and the wine, With seven bright gold wires, and bugles that do shine; Sing reign of fair maid, with gold upon her toe, Open you the west door and turn the old year go; Sing reign of fair maid, with gold upon her chin, Open you the east door and let the New Year in." When the children entered into a house, it was customary for them to sprinkle every one of the family even in their beds with this fresh spring water, and they received a small fee for the performance. There was a ceremony among the Druids and others in ancient times, of throwing spring water over the shoulder in order to command the attention of elemental spirits. It is customary in some places, especially in parts of Carmarthenshire, for young men to sprinkle the young girls with water in their beds, and the young maidens in their turn sprinkle the young men, and this is sometimes done when the one upon whom water is thrown is fast asleep. It is still customary for young men with musical instruments to visit the palaces of the gentry at early dawn, and play some of the beautiful old Welsh Airs, when they receive warm welcome and generous gifts. Among Twelfth Night Custom, none was more celebrated in Pembrokeshire in the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth than the "cutty wren," though there are hardly any traces of the custom in Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire. The custom was something as follows: Having procured a wren, the bird was placed in a little house of paper with glass windows, sometimes a cage or a lantern, or a box was used for that purpose, and often decorated with coloured ribbons, and "every young lady, and even old ladies, used to compete in presenting the grandest ribbon to the "wren." The cage or the lantern thus decorated with the little bird in it, was hoisted on four poles, one at each corner, and four men carried it about for the purpose of levying contributions, singing a long ballad or ditty such as follows on the following tune:-- "Where are you going? says Milder to Melder, O where are you going? says the younger to the elder; O I cannot tell says Festel to Fose; We're going to the woods said John the Red Nose. We're going to the woods said John the Red Nose. "O what will you do there? says Milder to Melder, O what will you do there? says the younger to the elder; O I do not know, says Festel to Fose; To shoot the cutty wren, said John the Red Nose, To shoot the cutty wren, said John the Red Nose. "O what will you shoot her with? says Milder to Melder, O what will you shoot her with? says the younger to the elder O I cannot tell, says Festel to Fose; With bows and arrows, said John the Red Nose, With bows and arrows, said John the Red Nose.