New Year's cakes (1879)

New years cakes 1879 illustration

My feet are cauld,
My shoon are thin,
Gi'e me my cakes,
And let me rin.

Sung by children from house to house, on New Year's morning in the Isle of Man.

Location: E.V.B (1879) A New Child's Play. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. Parker Collection AQ087.1/1879

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