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Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13379, 30 March 1912, Page 8

There is living at Horsharn, at tho ago of eighty-five, a romarkablo old" man called Henry Bin-stow: by hard necessity a, shoemaker, by taste a singer of songs aud a linger of churchbells. Even now he can sing any ono of four hundred songs that ho knows by heart. Some account is given in "Country Life" of his small book of reminiscences lately published at Horsliam by subscription. Mr. Burstow occasionally reinforces his memory with stories told him by his father, and so can go back to 1820; whon a. man sold his wife at the November Fair for 3s Gd. Ifo himself . can well remember that in 18.14 a lady known as "Pintoo Nanny"was brought into tho market place with a halter round her neck and sold for 30s. to a man'who parted with his wati'h to raiso tho price. Nanny changed hands again ;i year afterwards and married one Jim Smith, j with whom she lived happily over I afterwards!