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Each Ascension Day all the choir boys and a "party of substantial men" must go to St. Clement Danes Church and hear a sermon on the text: "Cursed be he that transgresseth the bounds and doles of his neighbor." Then, led by the rector, the choir boys and the "substantial men" must make a tour of the parish boundaries. In order that they shall never forget just where the boundaries are, the Virgin Queen decreed that the substantial men must soundly bump the heads of the choir boys against each boundary mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ascension Bumps | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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