SIR — Could Andrew Cook's Michael Flannigin ('Singing up for information', Mailbox, April 24) have any connection with Michael Finnigin, subject of a nonsense song of my long ago childhood?
Sung in the years before World War II, the refrain went:
'There was an old man named Michael Finnigin
He had whiskers on his chinnigin
The wind came up and blew them in again,
Poor old Michael Finnigin'
MAURICE K. TITHER,
156 Brockwell lane,
Chesterfield.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Another reader suggested the same song but thought that the spelling could be Finnegan.
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