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British Popular Customs, Present and Past

April 20.]

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Worcestershire.

April 20.]

Worcestershire.

The 20th of April is the great fair-day of Tenbury, and there is a belief in the county that the cuckoo is never heard till Tenbury fair-day, or after Pershore fair-day, which is the 26th of June.[35]—N. & Q. 2nd S. vol. i. p. 429.

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