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fis ae gi chaos dame g one Eng-)in a ki Me? ancha Erin te retry, tte work known. 1 started by ed [Special care to" St, Swithen [Roba Sprressy wpe azo dreamy [IN by Ing inpolence in refusing from anew angle by limiting, the BrORaeIy,, Assumes (Swithun) London Stone, Can-|becomo, in the space of a hundred American independence and greatly renqclocal use te, eight' hundred non Street. The need for this fifty years, the common language of [helped the spread of the. English Swithun does not extend to China, Otherwise yesterday's weather would govern the fate of the Shanghailander for forty days, That legend about St.
found in Germany, France, and Serithun, by the way, is to. be Flanders, "In Germany the date is June 37 and the day is called Seven Sleepers' Day (whether Herr Hitler knows of that must be left to surmise). In France there are two dates to which the same fatality is attached: June 8, dedicated to St, Medard and June 19, to St. Gervase and St Protais, The date for Flanders is July 6 and the patron, St. Godelieve. It is not at all clear how St. Swithun became ced up in this business of weather-control. The legend does not seem to have acquired currency until he had been dead for over 200 years. Usually, of course, it is applied to the farmer constitutional habit of grumble ing. In other words St. Swithun fated more with wet than with fine weather in England. A wet July 15 will rather lead to gloomy prognostications of a bad harvest outlook than a fine July 15 will inspire confidence in the allegiance of the sun to the convention said to have been established, St, Swithun ig one of the most English of saints, Little was written of him by his contemporaries. Indeed it was only When Dunstan and Ethelwold of Winchester were looking round for a new patron saint for the restored Winchester Cathedral in the tenth century that they thought of the humble bishop who had died in 862—the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle wrongly says 861. His grave had been almost forgotten but it was located and the restored church, previously dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul was given an English saint and the custody of his remains. From this trant for of St. Swithun's burial place which took place on July 15, 971, the Saint's day has been determined. Miracles preceded and followed the ceremony according to the chroniclers of the time. That, of course, was in keeping Leaving aside his involuntary association with meteorological) prophecy, Bishoy, Swithun was remarkable for his piety. Elfric, a monk who took part in the ceremony of the removal of St, Swithun's relics to the restored Winchester Cathedral Life of St. Swithun vivid picture of England of King Edgar under whose regime Swithun was Bishop of Winchester:
"the kingdom still continued in peace, so that, no fleet was heard of save that of the folk themselves who held this land"
Sorely tried Englend was having respite—all too short—from the relentless attentions of the continental invader. Swithun's humility was equal to his piety. Before his death on July 2, 862, he gave orders that his body was to be buried not within the church but outside in "a vile and unworthy place." From this circumstance some records main. tain that the rain-theory connect ed with July 15 was direct! attributable to the Saint's displeasure at the removal of his Bones to the honoured sanctity of the Cathedral. He was closely associated with King Alfred in the affection of the Saxon writers who declared that he accompanied that King on the historic visit, to, Rome in 856.
The tutor of royal princes Swithun was also an cage builder and restorer of churches. At his request Ethelwulf gave a tenth of the Royal lands to the Church, The determination to associate "his relies with the restoration of Winchester Catheral was therefore appropriate. Londoners recall the fact that [work will be appreciated when it nteraatioval intercourse for the m0- language, while, the English"
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Nor probably did he Americans, by their insolence in land memorized, words which are not Be put on the back of a letter paper churches were undamaged. Of suspect that the language would be|fusing to. speak other tongue, those 22 only eight remain to-|so altered that in 1923, H. L. Men-lhave made it into the inevitable Sabjecr to violently irregular dec-day: All Hallows: ug-by-the-|eken could accuse him' (in his international language of to-day. tensions, and. whith will cover the Tower; St, Andrew Undershaft; Declaration of American, Indepen,, idence" in American Vulgate) The Strange English bare needs of "general. intercourse trithout claims fo literary. Beauly. making "the Legislature meet Smithfield; St, Ethelburga-For the English are a strange these eight hundred. "Atty, the rik-towns out in the people.
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Giles, Cripplegate; Stet hundred consist of "operators," or "getting the judges pose, they have created a working StJunder his thumb by turning them international languay Tnelading. eighteen verbs and. words just as they) ike i, because, 0, ae, just only, Katherine Cree and St. Olave,|out when they done any thi he hai created a we! ing League of lus, t6, for, through, yeas no, ete Hart Street. What a wealth of didn't like, or holding up their sala-Ni fons in the British Common-romance, history and falke-lore|ries, so that they had t" cough up wealth without ever sus ing that ire fe owe, inane" "avera yees" like copper, cor, copy, cook, seems to lie in those names! lor not get no money, or "every it, time he has went to work fas went to work and ule day we shall yet wake up fo Gnd ud pulled day we is a League of Nations. "Some favton. and ye. hundred "commas finger or "pictarables™ like eae, St. Swithin itself is right. onto work and put ina kick, but every stance to the King and. under the any of these things, wwe have went communist, Exgiand, alle. female, card' cart, et, and "one hundred and' fifty' "qualifiers" or the aite of old Roman London. time we have went to work and put lo ship of the Conservative party, adjectives like common, complex, London Stone is supposed to be lie the natio ised G.PU. will onscions. The unique' thing 13 that part of the forum and also the|In 1874 he bought Leicester go under the name of Scotland there. ave mo verbs "except the Point from which the Roman Fields, converted its unkempt ards If English has become the conquerors dis-square into a trim garden, re-international tongue, the letten scone, the eperatore come, tances, London Wall remains [placed a poor star Gorge {could not give any reasons: for. iver go, cep, fet, make, ut, fee: take, be, ey have, chiefly as a famous thoroughfare LI by a statue of William Shakes- It was rather a German phi legis st end may, swift There" with the the great Jacob Grimm, a "boshe"
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