He deprecates repeating their old observances of this season in a new place.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
Mr. Bottrell laments the decay of these pleasing old Midsummer observances.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
Many local variations exist in the customs associated with the harvest home festivities observed in different parts of the country, especially in the north, where all old customs and observances, like the provincial dialects, have lingered longest, and still linger when they have died out and been forgotten in the south.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews