YORKSHIRE SAYING.

_For the Table Book._

“LET’S BEGIN AGAIN LIKE THE CLERK OF BEESTON.”

The clerk of Beeston, a small village near Leeds, one Sunday, after

having sung a psalm about half way through the first verse, discovered

he had chosen a wrong tune, on which he exclaimed to the singers, “Stop

lads, we’ve got into a wrong metre, let’s begin again!” Hence the origin

of the saying, so common in Leeds and the neighbourhood, “Let’s begin

again, like the clerk of Beeston.”