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From: Ed Jessop <>
Subject: Re: May 24th spec.day
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 14:45:14 -0700


At 02:20 PM 5/25/98 -0500, Marita Ulrich wrote:
>Perhaps someone can shed some light.
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>My neat Uncle Ernie (83) in Vancouver, B.C. tells me that as a kid they
>hearlded the day with a chant that went: "Twenty-fourth of May - the
>Queen's birth-day - if you don't give us a holiday, we'll all run away!" He
>said they didn't know which queen, and they didn't ask. It was a holiday
>from school, and that was all they wanted to know. Queen Victoria was too
>far back in history for their recollection.
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>Is this holiday still observed today? Does anyone else remember chanting
>this ditty? Perhaps it was the May queens, not the royal kind?
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>Marita in Hacienda Heights, CA
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