Note 2 — RINGING ROUNDS.
Reading edition
Mr. North, in “Bells of Leicester,” which the writer has now before him, tells us the bells at Barrow-on-Soar are rung backwards to give notice of fire—a hint for country and colonial friends, when, if adopted, the motto of the seventh bell of St. Ives would carry a good intimation into practice—
“When backward rung we tell of fire: Think how the world shall thus expire.”