Lancashire Sketches / Third Edition
by Edwin Waugh
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About This Book
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. ... And so by many winding nooks he stravs. With willing sport.--Shakspebe. ell may Englishmen cherish the memory of their forefathers, and love their native land. It has risen to its present power among the nations of the world through the efforts of many generations of heroic people; and the firmament of its biography is illumined by stars of the first magnitude. What we know of it...
Chapters (295)
- Lancashire Sketches.
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
- CONTENTS.
- Lancashire Sketches.
- Chapel Island; OR, An Adventure on Ulverstone Sands.
- Ramble from Bury to Rochdale.
- The Cottage of Tim Bobbin, and the Village of Milnrow.
- The Birthplace of Tim Bobbin.
- CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER IV.
- CHAPTER V.
- CHAPTER VI.
- CHAPTER VII.
- Ramble from Rochdale to the Top of Blackstone Edge.
- The Town of Heywood and its Neighbourhood.
- The Grave of Grislehurst Boggart.
- Boggart Ho' Clough.
- Rostherne Mere.
- Oliver Fernleaf's Watch.
- Norbreck:
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- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER IV.
- Wandering Minstrels; or, Wails of the Workless Poor.
- A Wayside Incident during the Cotton Famine.
- Saint Catherine's Chapel; OR, The Pretty Island Bay.
- The Knocker-Up.
- The Complaint of a Sad Complaint.
- FOOTNOTES:
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