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Show FAMOUS CHIMES RING AGAIN Dells of St Clements, In Old London, Appeal to Children, as In the Olden Days. "Oranges and I.emon" rang out on Hie old bells of St. Clements on the Inst day of March on nn evening ns tine ns any during tho finest winter London bus ever known. Tho bolls rang, but few henrd thorn, prevented by the ronr of tho Strund trntllc. It wns tho llrst time tho old nursery rhyme hud been rung out from the steeple for n very long while. Somo hundreds of school children, who hnd been Invited to attend tho church, (lied otit ut tho close tn mnnll processions, piloted ncrosM tho strenms of trntllc by the London poltccmcn. tfvery child carried nn ornngo or n lemon, a gift which-miidc up to them for tho faint tones tn which tho voices of tho old bells renched their cars. Down tho streets with tho historic names running from tho Strand to tho 'limine, St. Clements music wns moro audible, the sound cnrrylng over tho nolso nnd ronr, nnd Into the odlces whore anybody, with n turn of mind for nntlqulty, hns but to throw open bis window to hoar tho sound of a hell cast in tho year of the Spanish nrmndu. |