54 FRANCIS ORPEN MORRIS 



days, the former accompanying the voices in the 

 singing of old-fashioned hymns with extraordinary 

 shakes, turns, and flourishes the pride of those who 

 played them, but not a little disconcerting to those 

 of musical culture. A harmonium shortly replaced 

 the village orchestra, and Mrs. Morris, with admir- 

 able tact and skill, soon changed the old order of 

 things to one more in accordance with modern 

 ideas. 



The changes that had taken place in Nunburn- 

 holme, as in so many other country places, had 

 been few and far between for a hundred years 

 previously. One of the old mediaeval customs that 

 was kept up for some time after my father came 

 to the parish was for some of the women to make 

 a curtsey immediately on entering the church an 

 interesting survival from pre-Reformation days. 



The educational advantages of the parish were 

 small indeed. There was no efficient village school 

 in the place, and accordingly he lost no time in 

 setting about to build one. A grant of land was 

 obtained from Lord Londesborough, the lord of 

 the manor, and within a short time a good school 

 was established in connection with the National 

 Society. It was the custom at that time for the 

 Sunday-school to be held in the church, the day- 

 school, such as it was, being carried on in one of 

 the cottages. 



Happily there was no public-house in the village, 

 which was a matter of great thankfulness to Mr. 

 Morris, and it was a remarkable fact that in three 



