Search for a song

An American comes to a Lake District village in search of a song which his family used to know but has gradually forgotten. He's a composer and he's haunted by one tiny refrain and is anxious to discover the rest of the tune. The vicarage children help to introduce him to an elderly shepherd who

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refuses to sing it to him. Winter comes, they rescue him from a snowdrift and in exchange they get the song. The American returns with his friend from the BBC who also discovers one of the children has a talent for singing.

Read at Seven Stories book collection, housed at Felling collection centre.

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