CLOCK DRESSINGS.

During the continuance of “Grassington Feast,” it is customary for the

inhabitants to have convivial parties at one another’s houses: these are

called _clock dressings_; for the guests are invited to come and “dress

the clock.” Grassington feast was once one of the largest and most

celebrated one in Craven, but it is fast dwindling away. This year the

amusements were of a paltry description; and the sack racers, bell

racers, hasty-pudding eaters, and soaped-pig catchers, who used to

afford in former times such an unceasing fund of merriment, seem all

fled. Nothing told of olden time, except the presence of Frank King, the

Skipton minstrel, who seems determined to be in at the death.