"O that will not do! says Milder to Melder, O that will not do says the younger to the elder; O what will you do then? says Festel to Fose; With great guns and cannons says John the Red Nose, With great guns and cannons says John the Red Nose. "O what will you bring her home in? says Milder to Melder, O what will you bring her home in? says the younger to elder; O I cannot tell, says Festel to Fose; On four strong men's shoulders, said John the Red Nose. On four strong men's shoulders, said John the Red Nose. "O that will not do, says Milder to Melder, O that will not do, says the younger to the elder; O what will you do then? says Fester to Fose; On big carts and waggons, said John the Red Nose, On big carts and waggons, said John the Red Nose. "What will you cut her up with? says Milder to Melder, What will you cut her up with? says the younger to the elder; O I do not know, saith Festel to Fose; With knives and with forks, said John the Red Nose, With knives and with forks, said John the Red Nose. "O that will not do, says Melder to Milder, O that will not do, says the younger to the elder; O what will do then? says Festel to Fose; With hatchets and cleavers, said John the Red Nose, With hatchets and cleavers, said John the Red Nose, "What will you boil her in? says Milder to Melder, What will you boil her in? says the younger to the elder; O I cannot tell thee, says Festel to Fose; In pots and in kettles, said John the Red Nose, In pots and in kettles, said John the Red Nose." For more on this interesting subject see "Manners and Customs of the People of Tenby" in "The Cambrian Journal," Vol. IV., page 177. I may add that I heard the above ditty sung in Welsh in several parts of South Wales, especially when I was a boy. Another such custom was called "tooling," and its purpose was beer. It consisted in calling at the farm-houses and pretending to look for one's tools behind the beer cask. "I've left my saw behind your beer cask," a carpenter would say; "my whip," a carter; and received the tool by proxy, in the shape of a cup of ale. It was also customary for the women to practice what was called sowling, viz., asking for "sowl," that is cheese, fish or meat. It was also customary in parts of the counties of Pembroke and Carmarthen for poor people to proceed round the neighbourhood from house to house with their "Wassail bowls," and singing outside each door something as follows-- "Taste our jolly wassail bowl, Made of cake, apple, ale, and spice; Good master give command, You shall taste once or twice Of our jolly wassail bowl." People who partook of the contents of the bowl were of course expected to pay, so that the invitation to "taste our jolly wassail bowl," was not always accepted. In such cases the bearer of the bowl sung the following rhyme in disappointment:--