ABSTRACT
In a retired hamlet on the borders of Wales, between Oswestry and Shrewsbury, it is still the custom to celebrate the first of May. – The children of the village, who look forward to this rural festival with joyful eagerness, usually meet on the last day of April to make up their nosegays for the morning, and to choose their queen. – Their customary place of meeting is at a hawthorn, which / stands in a little green nook, open on one side to a shady lane, and separated on the other side by a thick sweet-briar and hawthorn hedge from the garden of an attorney.
