[2] Mr. North, in “Bells of Leicester,” which the writer has now before him, tells us the bells at Barrow-on-Soar are rung backwards to give notice of fire—a hint for country and colonial friends, when, if adopted, the motto of the seventh bell of St. Ives would carry a good intimation into practice—
“When backward rung we tell of fire:
Think how the world shall thus expire.”
Now, so much for ringing and ringing rounds; much more might be said, but the writer does not consider it just to repeat that which is so well put in “Bannister’s Change Ringing,” “Rope Sight,” “Wigram’s Change Ringing Disentangled,” and in “Troyte’s Introduction to Change Ringing,” and to which at this point he recommends the reader or learner to take in hand and study. When that has been well digested and understood, then, and not till then, the next or following portion can or should be attempted either as for study or practice, viz.:—
“The bells ring out a merry peal,
Their music on our ear doth steal.”
CHANGE RINGING.
