did someone borrow some kids' books from the Old North ringing room?

[Laura Dickerson <lauradi rcn com>]

   At some point, somebody bought a copy of "Paul Revere and the Bell 
Ringers," which is still on the bookshelf. Over time, I bought three 
more books about Revere that including mention of the bells, including 
Lane Smith's "John, Paul, George, and Ben," from which we took the 
quotation about people joining bellringing clubs before fun was 
invented.  I noticed that one of the books was missing a while back (I 
can't remember the title), and then yesterday I realized that
Smith's book was gone as well.  Has anybody borrowed them?  In the 
distant past, we had a system for checking out books to take home, but 
that lapsed.  (fun fact - I can't remember a surprise method for more 
than a few minutes at a time, but I remember that Chris Jenks borrowed 
the tower copy of Morris's "History and Art of Change Ringing" in the 
early 1980s and never returned it).

Laura Dickerson