All Old English Custom

An anciont custorn of "tossing the pancake" wa= observed at WestminBtei (London) school on Shrove Tuesday. , procession of pupils was formed, headed by one of the abbey vergers carrying a Crying-pan contair.ing a newly-made pancake. Admission having been gained to the hall, the cooK; whirling the frying-pan three times round his head, hurled the pancake amid the crowd of boys, and the one who secured the largest piepp received the usual awaid of one guinea.