_May-day Custom._--Can any of your correspondents inform me of the origin
of a singular custom which prevails in Huntingdonshire on May 1, viz. that
of suspending from a rope, which is hung across the road in every village,
a doll with pieces of gay-coloured silk and ribbon, and no matter what,
attached to it; candlesticks and snuffers, spoons and forks, being parts of
those I saw the other day in Summersham, St. Ives, and several other
places.