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"Happy" Index

10th of February

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February Index
2/10 in 1997: Callop (steak?) or Shrove Monday: last day to eat meat before Lent. (Meat is salted & hung until after Lent.)

Callop Monday, pancake Tuesday,
Ash Wednesday, Bludee Thursday,
Friday's lang, but will be dune,
And hey for Saturday afternoon!

     English Folk-Rhymes, GF Northall, 1892

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