A USEFUL RHYME
The recollections of a rhyme: "Dresß on fire, roll on floor; Room on fire, shut the door," saved two lives at Wellingborou»h, in England, recently. An elderly woman, Miss Nutt, was doing some cleaning with petrol when suddenly there was a burst of flame. Her clothes were ignited, but suddenly remembering the couplet, she at once rolled herself over and over on the floor and put out the flames. Then, finding that in trying to prevent the fire from spreading, her sister had. also set alight to her clothes, she wrapped rugs and' mats 'round her- until- the flames were out. The both sisters devoted themselves ir> attacking the fire in the room.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 15
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116A USEFUL RHYME Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 15
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