The huntings (on foot) which the Old Man is suffered to join as here described were of common, almost habitual, occurrence in our vales when I was a boy; and the people took much delight in them.

They are now less frequent.
71.

_Funeral Basin_.
'Filled the funeral basin at Timothy's door.' In several parts of the North of England, when a funeral takes place, a basin full of sprigs of boxwood is placed at the door of the house from which the coffin is taken up, and each person who attends the funeral ordinarily takes a sprig of this boxwood, and throws it into the grave of the deceased.
72.

*_The Emigrant Mother_.

[XXIX.] 1802.