SC - Seville oranges

[UnruhBays, Melanie A]

Maggie MacDonald wrote:
> 
> There has been much discussion on treacle and molasses, etc. etc.
> But, I have one silly little question.
> Just what the heck is a treacle well that I have seen references to?

Ooooh...

I'm having a vague memory of a children's story- sort of a child's
Utopia sort of thing, to have a well full of treacle instead of water.
It is likely English (they seem especially fascinated by treacle) and it
may well be something Lewis Carroll, but there's also a story by (I
think) Edward Lear that has four children who go to sea in a teakettle
with a quangle-wangle and they kept landing places that had weird things
like that. I can picture the illos but can't remember the title.

Doncha hate getting old?

'Lainie