The 'Snuffing' at Hawick - photography of the Common Ridings, Scotland
The Common Riding festivities in Hawick, with Cornet Chris Ritson, commence with 'the snuffing', when men struggle to obtain snuff tobacco from a ram's horn, and also catch sachets of snuff thrown from a window, at 6.30am, in Hawick, Scotland, Friday 7th June 2013.