toberac

Updated: May 24, 2025

If attempted to be renewed, it is summarily put down by the police, though it still exists among the Basques as a Toberac. It may also be mentioned that a similar practice once prevailed in Devonshire described by the Rev. S. Baring Gould in his "Red Spider." It was there known as the Hare Hunt, or Skimmity-riding. The tailor's Charivaris brought him in no money.

Samuel Smiles - Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist