A BASKET OF BUNS
A hot cross bun was. added on Good Friday morning, states the London correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian," to the seventy-five which are kept in a wire basket hung from the ceiling of the bar in the Widow's Son inn at Bow. A bun a year has been added to the original bun, which a widow baked for her only son, a sailor, who should have arrived home on Good Friday one hundred and twelve years ago. Seventy-five buns have survived out of one hundred and twelve, so we may have an idea as to the span of life of a hot cross bun. Today's ceremony of adding one more bun for a sailor who is never likely to eat them, now would have given Mr. W. W. Jacobs material for one of his stories. 1 Five hundred other buns were distributed to customers, and the paying of this century-old tribute was go*d for trade. The inn has belonged io the same family for forty or fifty years, and was undoubtedly frequented by sailormen many years ago, but only one was there today to eat a free bun and drink a glass of beer to a missing shipmate.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 129, 3 June 1935, Page 3
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202A BASKET OF BUNS Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 129, 3 June 1935, Page 3
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