2 DECEMBER 1916, Page 10

THE ENGLISH COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "

SPECTATOR.")

Sra,—The article under this heading in your issue of November 18th reminds me of a song I heard sung by a farmOr at a harvest-home at Sutton in Salop about sixty years ago. I got the words from the singer orally at the time, and understood they had been written by a local man. A copy of the song is enclosed on the chance of its being unknown to you, and that you may consider

it worthy of rescue from oblivion.—I am. Sir, &c., R. P.