tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post7040768896028954915..comments2024-03-12T14:02:09.820-04:00Comments on Riverdaze…: CHRISTMAS QUOTEDOWN (23)Grizz…………http://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-74400257891197684572011-12-04T06:31:28.649-05:002011-12-04T06:31:28.649-05:00KGMom...
Not unlike reaching into the decorations...KGMom...<br /><br />Not unlike reaching into the decorations box and pulling out a favorite ornament. For both of us, actually.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-42126246350254102312011-12-04T00:57:27.656-05:002011-12-04T00:57:27.656-05:00Some old time favorites here. Thanks for the remi...Some old time favorites here. Thanks for the reminder.KGMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05165941950953938943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-17006342195741195402011-12-04T00:42:11.879-05:002011-12-04T00:42:11.879-05:00Anonymous…
Your comment made me wonder, as I have...Anonymous…<br /><br />Your comment made me wonder, as I have several Christmas anthologies published before 1950 which also quote these lines as a nursery rhyme. So I did a bit of research—and while I wasn't able to date the rhyme, I think I can explain how it could be much older than might first be thought. <br /><br />The first British penny (of silver) was made about 790 A.D. although a coin of that name was being made a hundred years before even that early date. Of course a ha'penny, or half penny, was simply a penny cut in half and used for lesser transactions. Pennies were also cut into quarters. Farthings were first minted in the late-Thirteenth century. A farthing, or fourthling, was simply a one-quarter portion of a penny. They were discontinued in 1960.<br /><br />Like I said, I couldn't find an origin date for the rhyme, but in 1953, Frank Luther wrote a a fairly popular Christmas song based this bit of verse; there is a second song also based on the verse which predates the Luther tune. <br /><br />So the verse certainly predates the demise of the farthing…I just don't by how many years, decades, or centuries.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-80639211075594474442011-12-03T17:38:09.881-05:002011-12-03T17:38:09.881-05:00After the ha'penny comes the farthing (the sma...After the ha'penny comes the farthing (the smallest British coin pre-decimalisation). and 'If you haven't got a farthing, God bless you'<br />Your anthology must have been edited after farthings were taken out of circulation - as I remember in the late '50s/early '60sAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-55169501873836751942011-12-03T15:45:32.117-05:002011-12-03T15:45:32.117-05:00Weaver…
Yes, I was afraid you'd know many of ...Weaver…<br /><br />Yes, I was afraid you'd know many of these quotes. But it also past of the seasonal celebration to revisit certain familiar literary haunts. I'll try and dig a little deeper, however,Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322683719539438825.post-21911508933460972552011-12-03T09:34:05.430-05:002011-12-03T09:34:05.430-05:00Lovely Grizz. I knew most of them but it is alwa...Lovely Grizz. I knew most of them but it is always lovely to read old favourites again at this time of the year. As to the ones I didn't know - lovely to read them for the first time.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.com