Sussex.
At Brighton, on this day, the children in the back streets bring up ropes from the beach. One stands on the pavement on one side, and one on the other, while one skips in the middle of the street. Sometimes a pair (a boy and a girl) skip together, and sometimes a great fat bathing-woman will take her place, and skip as merrily as the grandsire danced in Goldsmith’s Traveller. They call the day “Long Rope Day.” This was done as lately as 1863.—N. & Q. 3rd S. vol. iii. p. 444.