A. A. Procter.
St. Simon and St. Jude's Day. (October 28th.)
It is a Bedford custom for boys to cry baked pears about the town, with the following words:—
Who knows what I have got?
In a hot pot?
Baked Wardens—all hot!
Who knows what I have got?
October brings the cold weather down,
When the wind and the rain continue;
He nerves the limbs that are lazy grown,