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Updated: May 12, 2025
So we ended the year 1804 in the midst of celebrations, and entered the year 1805, which was to be a year of many important events. In order that his army could participate in the general jollifications, Marshal Augereau went to Brest, in spite of the rigours of winter, and gave a number of magnificent balls, at which he entertained a succession of officers, and even a good number of soldiers.
The result was one of the biggest beer jollifications it has ever been my misfortune to attend. One evening General Carr summoned me to his tent. He said he wanted to send some scouts with dispatches to Fort Supply, to be forwarded from there to General Sheridan. He ordered me to call the scouts together and to select the men who were to go.
Another feature of May-day was the May-pole, which was erected in all English towns and villages, and round which the people danced all day long. But these merry customs were stopped when the Puritans put an end to all such jollifications. They were revived somewhat after the restoration, but they are rarely seen nowadays except among children.
Van T. from behind his lemon-colored glove that "if that was the gang he had heard so much of, he didn't want no more of 'em." But these and other jollifications were not long to continue. Causes infinitely more serious were at work undermining the foundations of the Skylarks.
There may have been other popular "jollifications" of this kind, for example at the Neptunalia on July 23, where we find the same curious custom of making temporary huts or shelters; but this is the only one of which we have any account by an eye-witness.
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