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She thanked Our Lord for making her so happy and often prayed that it might last and she win the smith 's soul for Heaven and that their doing might all the same be kept hidden from wicked people . St. Eloi 's Day is the holiday of smiths and husbandmen . In the morning , the farmers all went together to mass and thence , after a glass , to settle their yearly reckoning at the smith 's . At noon there was a big dinner at the inn . They ate much and drank more ; and , from afternoon till late in the evening , the smiths ' men and the peasants loafed along the streets and sang ribald songs . The steadiest of them walked about talking , from one tavern to the other . They were nearly all drunk .