The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #49445   Message #746587
Posted By: IanC
11-Jul-02 - 12:27 PM
Thread Name: Yet Another Alphabet Quiz
Subject: RE: BS: Yet Another Alphabet Quiz
Well ... though Greg credited me with more cunning, I was just referring to the fact that all ships (and bells - see T) are she ... so I don't really have a problem.

In the meantime (and while I'm waiting for someone to ask themselves what kind of person this Collier was and thus get the answer to K), heres a note about the Bonny Bunch of Roses. Napoleon died on St Helena in 1821 and Roy Palmer has traced some of the early broadsides back to the early 1820s (i.e. almost contemporaneous) so it was probably originally written as a broadside. Here's a nice one from Glasgow (makes a change from The Bodleian) which looks like it's from the first half of the 19th Century.

Whils I was looking around for this quiz, though, I found it quoted on a "Songs of 1798" site ... is this an even earlier version?

;-)
Ian