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Sir, — Charles Dickens’s signalman, in the ghost story (TVI, July 8), must have had second sight. Since Dickens died in 1870, I assume the action of the story to be set at that time or earlier. However, he signalman, as he went about his duties, whistled “Tit Willow,” a song in the light onera “The Mikado,” which had its first performance much later — in 1885 to be I precise. I wonder whether the song was specifically chosen, or whether the actor. Denholm Elliot, was merely told to “whistle something Victorian." Yours, etc., lAN HOOD.
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