This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...an opportunity of showing his own and the people's attachment to the new order of things; he accordingly called out the Posse Comitatus, comprising all able-bodied men from sixteen to sixty. The order was obeyed with alacrity, and the inhabitants met armed in a field called Miller's Close, near Kendal, from whence they ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...an opportunity of showing his own and the people's attachment to the new order of things; he accordingly called out the Posse Comitatus, comprising all able-bodied men from sixteen to sixty. The order was obeyed with alacrity, and the inhabitants met armed in a field called Miller's Close, near Kendal, from whence they marched to Kirby Lonsdale. This historical fact explains the above popular rhyme, the meaning of which is, at this day, perhaps, not generally understood. THE APPLEBY SCHOOL-BOY'S SPEECH. "1T7"E wur twoa lile lads et hed tae coe et a smiddy, tae hev our new clogs cakert en snout bandit. Hefter that we clanterd dawnt street, en hed tae gang tae a lile tawn coed Burrels; we set dawn that titter up sud coe tudder up neisht mornin, but it happend that I laid ower lang ea bed. I plaid trouen three heaal days, en then ventert tae gang taet skule. When th maister saa me, he sed, You sir, cum here. I went up sadly freetent. He sed, What for hev yee been sae lang away? I sed, I wod hae cum titter, but th wedder was sae clashy, anth loans sae clarty, et me grondfadder sed I cud nivver git teaard throut. THE BBIGSTEER PEAT-LEADEB'S SPEECH. "V/TY deam gat a bad stitchen pain in her side this summer wie forkin hay; she tryd oa ath nebbors cud think on tae mend her, but nin on them cud due her onny gud. She was sae ill, barn, I wod nit hev given a peat for her life; but hevin sum of Bauk's Balsam ith cubbert, et awr lad hed been tackin on for a brocken showder, an he is now mendan connoly, thinken it mappen mud due her gud, she gat hald et bottle, wieawt mindent direction-paaper, an teuk a girt swig; it went thro ivvery bean in her skin, aye, tea her varra teaaends, barn! She was better derectly, en hes aild nowt nivver sen. END OP THE WESTM...
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