Shrove Tuesday Pancake Greaze

At Westminster School,^* London, Shrove Tuesday is the occasion of the Pancake Greaze custom. The cook, preceded by a verger carrying the silver-topped mace, takes his frying-pan to the Lower School and tosses a pancake over a high iron bar Avhich separates the Lower School^** from the Upper School.^** There is a glorious scramble, and 1he boy who secures the whole, or largest part, of the pancake receives the traditional guinea. The cook is awarded ten shillings for his part in the proceedings.

^* (Westminster School - a public school, a priviledged school like Winchester, Eton, Harrow, Rugby, etc.)

^** (Lower School, Upper School - junior and senior classes, respectively.)