ORANGES AND LEMONS
Sir,-Children of all ages will be interested in a most interesting itern (and an actual happening) from Radio Newsreel on a_ recent Daventry programme, being a postscript to the wellknown nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons." It went, briefly, 2s follows:A choir of children sang the first two lines of the rhyme, "Oranges and lemons, says the bells of St. Clement's." The bells of St. Martin-in-the-Fields then rang out the two following lines, "You owe me five farthings, says the bells of St. Martin’s." The story then goes on that an artist, making sketches amid the ruins of St. Clement Danes Church in The Strand, noticed a coin on the ground. On wiping off the dust he discovered it to be a farthing. Looking carefully around he found four more farthings and no more. Rushing off to consult some ‘recognised authority, for in the excitement of his discovery he was not quite sure if the rhyme really said five farthings, he confirmed that this was indeed so. ; Then later, at a simple ceremony, held among the ruins of the blitzed church of St. Clement Danes, the five farthings were handed over to officials of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, thus repaying an age-old debt. 7
E. MILES
SAMUEL
(Wellington),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 253, 28 April 1944, Page 7
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