USEFUL RHYME
JTWO LIVES SAVED BV A JINGLE
The recollection of a rhyme:— “Dress on fire, roll on floor; Room on fire, shut the door,” saved two lives at "Wellingborough, in England. 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 spreading, her sister had also set light to her clothes, she wrapped rugs and mats round her until the flames were out.
Then both sisters devoted themselves to attacking the fire in the room.
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Evening Star, Issue 20328, 9 November 1929, Page 7
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119USEFUL RHYME Evening Star, Issue 20328, 9 November 1929, Page 7
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