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<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 03 July 2008 - Volume 07<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Thomas Mc Rae</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:t.mcrae@uq.net.au">t.mcrae@uq.net.au</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Traditions" 2008.07.03 (06) [D/E/German]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div>On 04/07/2008, at 9:30 AM, <span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span> <span><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span> wrote:</div>
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Subject:<span> </span>LL-L "Traditions" 2008.07.02 (02) [D/E]<br></div><div class="Ih2E3d"><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-US">In
Opie's Oxford Book of Nursery Rhymes they recount the same game being
played to nonsense words in ( I think) somewhere in Holland. But as the
nonsense words start off with something like Humpty Dumpty, they
concluded that it was a remnant from the 18th century British soldiers
who played Humpty Dumpty with the children in their billets.</span></p></div></span></blockquote>According
to "The Old Lady" the staff magazine of the Bank of England (Old Lady
of Threadneedle Street) the origin of Humpty is much more interesting
and goes back to the time of the English Civil War. During a Royalist
siege of a Roundhead occupied city (Warwick ?) the cavaliers started
wheeling a massive siege engine/battering ram towards the walls over
very tough ground. Along the device bounced "Humpty", "Dumpty" until it
shook itself apart and collapsed never to be put together again. A
childrens' opera has been written based on this version of the tale.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Another claim is that during the siege of Colchester by Roundhead troops the Royalists placed a huge cannon atop a church tower</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">which wrecked havoc until the tower was hit by a lucky shot and collapsed destroying the cannon..</div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Quien sabe ?</span><br>
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<div><div style=""><div style=""><div>Regards</div><div>Tom Mc Rae</div><div>Brisbane</div><div>AUSTRALIA</div><div><br></div><div>"Oh wad some power the Giftie gie us,</div><div>Tae see oorsels as ithers see us</div>
<div>Robert Burns</div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span><br><br><br>
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