...Lernean snakes in the reeds of Acheron, Stix, or Phlegeton,) untill at last, by the skill of the cooke, it is transformed into the form of a Flip-Jack, called...Pancake, which ominous incantation the ignorant people do devoure very greedily.' "In the North of England, Shrove Tuesday is called Fasten' 1 Ee'n or FasUntfs...

...Lernean snakes in the reeds of Acheron, Stix, or Phlegeton), untill at .last, by the skill of the cooke, it is transformed into the form of a Flip-Jack, called...Pancake, which ominous incantation the ignorant people do devoure very greedily." In the North of England, Shrove Tuesday is called Fasten's Ee'n or Fasting's...

...it makes a confused dismal hissing (like the Lernian snakes in the reeds of Acheron), until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the form of a lip-jack, called a pancake, vhieh ominous incantation he ignorant people do detour very greedily."...

...little, into a frying-pan of boiling suet, where it makes a confused dismal hissing .... until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the...incantation the ignorant people do devour very greedily." A correspondent in Hone's " Every Day Book," relates that the old curfew bell at Hoddcsdon, Hertfordshire,...

...pancakes!" we thunder forth in return. Batter is better than batteries, and the true protecting regis of Britannia is — the frying-pan. But raised upon...not, therefore, proud to number himself among them, anticipating the truth of a line to be thereafter written, which, with such blissful ignorance, would...

...and moreo'er. puddings andJlapjacks. — Pericles, II. 7, Supplement to Shakspeare. Until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the form of a flap-jack, which, in our translation, is called a pancake. — Taylor's Jack-alent,\. p. 115. TO FLARE...

...boiling suet where it makes a confined dismal hissing like the heathcan snakes, &c., until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the form of a flip-jack called a pancake, which, with ominous incantations, the ignorant people do devour greedily." 66. CoBALnra. — FOB RESTORING...

...hissing, until at last, by the skill of the cooke, it is transformed into the shape of a flap-jack, called a pancake ; which ominous incantation the ignorant people do devour very greedily." At York, there used to be, perhaps it may be so still, a Pancake bell always rung on Shrove-Tuesday,...

...dismal hissing, like the Lethean snakes in the reeds of Acheron, Styx, or I'hlegethon, until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the form of a flip-jack, called a pancake, which, with ominous incantations, the ignorant people do devour very greedily." Spring. It was originally...

...it makes a confused dismal hissing (like the Lernian snakes in the reeds of Acheron), until at last, by the skill of the cook, it is transformed into the...form of a flip-jack, called a pancake, which ominous iacaittatitn the ignorant people do devour very greedily.' It was customary to present the first pancake...