While I seldom post these days, I‘m still reading and immediately recognized the picture of the book and remember reading it and sending it on to the next person. i live in Maryland and was near the end of the list. So fun!

Hi Frances ! That was a long time ago, wasn't it .......wow.

Yvonne

I remember reading it and sending it on its way.

yep. I was here. I sent you a note on Penn State paper.

PAM

I just loaned it to a neighbor who shares our love of reading. She read every page and all the special inserts that everyone left in it, and absolutely enjoyed every bit of it . I'll have to reread it when it comes back to me.

I think I was on the list. The book seems familiar to me. However, I have no idea what I would have put in it.

Well ladies, here's the contents of that book along with the instruction card that included mailing labels for each recipient ! I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed re-reading all your messages and enclosures ....after all these years, thank you again for indulging me :0) That was back in 2012.

Wow - that was ELEVEN years ago??? So neat to see all of it again!

PAM

I just opened a 1922 edition of The True Story Of A Real Garden by Idelle Beaufort Watson and found this clipping tucked in it :

It begins : "Ever had a groat from me, " ( what is a groat? )

A coin. For some reason it popped into my head that a groat is worth four pence!

I Googled and I was correct. We learned that at school but I don't know why as it was medieval money!

Although we never learned about English currency/coin in the USA , we did have a song that I recall from high school days ;

I've got six pence

Jolly, jolly six pence.

I've got six pence

to last me all my life.

I've got two pence to spend

and two pence to lend

and two pence to send home to my wife, dear wife !

No cares I have I to grieve me,

No silly little girls to deceive me

I'm as happy as a lark believe me

As I go marching marching, marching home.

I recall that song very well but not from school. Adults used to belt it out at singalongs and in pubs or on the late buses coming home from the pubs!

There was a slight difference where the lark was a King but otherwise the same.

You have taken me back to childhood and the late bus home, it smelled of humanity, cigarettes, beer and service uniforms. Very warm and cosy but I can't remember why I was up that late!

Let me correct my story......we sang it on the team bus coming back from games !

Some of those ditties got a bit raunchy ...LOL.

The Clover song was one of those raunchy ones. It was used years later for a TV margarine ad and upset an old lady in my complex. She complained that someone was playing a CD of dirty songs and snooped around the corridors trying to pin down the culprit!

Ann,,,,,was that the ditty that went something like " roll me over, in the clo--o--ver...." etc?

LOL. Ah, yes, raunchy. But I recall many that were worse ! Even my MIL had some from her college days that were quite daring.

Yes, that is the one. Some of those songs could be cleverly taken two ways.

For my birthday self=-indulgence I just purchsed myself a very pretty copy of Jane Eyre, my favorite book (though one of many). It came with all sorts of things tucked inside - replicas of Charlotte Bronte memorabilia. I haven't looked at most of them yet, but I can tell it is going to be fun!