Dick Whittington (and His Cat)

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There's just...so much going on in this story (which is very loosely based on actual events). The cat eating all the rats at the emperor's court! The skull engraving getting turned into a cat! This is the type of story I normally find by screwing around on Wikipedia when I'm bored at work...but no, I actually heard this from my bell friends, because of course English bell nerds would try to reproduce the pattern that sounded like "turn again, Whittington." (Roughly, without getting into the bell notation, it's a rising "1-3-5" arpeggio followed by a falling one.)