Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-16
OLD BANBURY TOWN
IT HAS SEEN MANY STIRRING EVENTS
IN ENGLISH HISTORY.
The Celebrated Place In, However,
More Famous For It's Rhymes and
It's Cakes Than For It's Part In thu
Affairs of State.

Would you not think. Ii you found
the following lines,
Es RoHK co CAED IR,
Seogeh sreve ereh wcisume vahi
lah sehs sc otreh nos llebdnas
regni freh nos gnires rohyer
ganoed iryd ale nifae esots sorcy
rub nabot es rohk co caed If.
that you had discovered some quaint
old Runic rhyme or a verse in some
language SO ancient that IL would take
an antiquarian to decipher itf
That was exactly what an enthusiasts
tic band of archaeoiogists did think one
time, SO the story goes, when they
found this inscription cut In the corner
stone of a very old building in Ban
bury, England. These gentlemen were
on the lookout for just such quaint old
bits. and you can imagine how excited
they We're over this when they discoy-
cred 1t.
This Is certainly prehistoric Welsh,
said they and took 10 straightway to
the president OF the archaeological so
ciety to which they belonged. He rub
bed his hands softly and smiled. This
discovery is something quite worth
while" he said. And all these wise
gentlemen felt very virtuous as they
wrinkled their brows and wondered
what story or what great secret the
queer old words would unfold
But they puzzled in vain. They could
not read II, so then they teIegraphed
TO a widely known professor OF dead
languages. asking him to translate IL
ior lne"'
Very soon the return message arrived.
and all clustered around the president
10 hear the telegram.
Read back ward" IL suggested. land
when IL Is deciphered II will be found
20 be a well known rhyme"
So II is, as you see for yourselves.
and these wise gentlemen found that n
fine hoax had been played upon them.
You all know how n goes:
Ria. n cockborsa 20 na,hu,v Cross
TO see n fine lady upon a gray horse:
rings on ner fingers and bells on her toes.
one shaH nave music Wherever she goes
Banbury Is best known the English
speaking world over by this nursery
hyhe' aItnougn' as in"tter Oh iact'
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honuon'
one or the hrst conflicts known TO
nave taken place there was that IN DOB
between Iymrlc' KING OF the west
saxons. ana the Britons. Later, dur
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