Mr. William Chapman told an amusing story of the days when the song of the nightingale was said to have been heard in the Lead Mill Woods, Copley. The news soon spread far and wide and large numbers of people came from various parts of the district, some as far as twelve miles, in brakes, to hear this “sweet singer in a world of dreams” and for several nights they were delighted with the melody of the sweet-throated songster of the woods, which strangely enough, invariably ceased its warblings on the stroke of midnight. Then, said Mr. Chapman, it became known that the song was made with a tin whistle and a canister of water by someone concealed in the wood. Some laughed heartily at the joke played upon them, but others were indignant when asked “Did you hear the nightingale?”
The culprit was our genial friend.
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