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Re: hey........

From: "Alan Chamberlin" <xxxxabckid@ix.netcom.com>
Date: 5 Jul 1997 22:52:44 GMT
Subject: Re: hey........
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> I didn't think this was any deeper than a dying soldier thinking of
> home. Of course, I could be wrong...  Wassailing is drinking at
> Christmastime, so I think it's just another reference to a memory of
> home.
> -- 
> Richard Hoy writing from the attic.

Think back to one of those perennial Christmas carols:  "Here we go
a-wassailing . . .".  Wassailing is going out and singing Christmas carols
in public.  In the U.S. we just don't use the word "wassailing."


-- 
Alan Chamberlin

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