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    388 A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STOBY.

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    The Wet Harvest-Season Of 1852 Must Have...

    no na t tional actual cal ami t arva ty t , possessed inordina all tel classes hih . Insufficient ratesif no food t ruin , if

    how were deep the g therefore loomy an must _ticipations , have been even y of g the the poor despondency dwellers , in of cities those ; ,

    who lent iful tuall harves y saw t t he tting mighty on t havoc he ground going 1 on the around food of them a na . tion A

    dri rain to being p this for ing des , t here wear troyed weeks was s slowl t will he s y t one bu depress hysical t inevi surel effect t t abl it y will g of be htest fore the a heart sp weath their irits of eye er ; flesh ; if s incessant ! cons . Added tant

    t lie even hen I had know , hosp ovial always it itality did man managed away my , appears t oo ther hosp to ' to s rub , ; it cost na abl on turall e y hitherto so perh little y he aps - in To a farm his kindl lay mean by - y house , cheer s , t , hing but and ful , ,

    for that both rainy literall day had and , however metap , horicall been beyond the rainy his means day had , and come now 3

    y y his irls whole who nature since our seemed childhood to undergo had been a sudden accus change tomed . to We his

    hear g t , y jokeshis cheery voice , and , had welcomed him each time see he en him tered ent the , house the "breakfas as peop t le room do a s tray sunbeam exchanged , dreaded sorrowful to

    looks as we heard him kick the door , mat or swear at the men from or maidservan table and ts . peered How anxiousl to the sk y we ] wa _STo tched hope th him ere as ! no he break rose

    in the cloudsno clouds indeed y t . break , nothing but one universal consul at t mosp ed , t here he obs of t ever inat -falling barome wet ter . t Nex hat t , o t he barome stand t er t

    - " much rain" , in spite of the e shakings and raps which as an unp The leasan loom t truth darkened -teller it dail was compelled on to f undergo ather ' s . faceand it

    of Harvest was golden almost g fields a ! relief what ri to i a mockery see under y him ; dep my a harvest olden art poor for sun field his , t harvest where ood st , eamin instead fields g .

    corn penng g , rus sheaves tic merriment slowly rotting ; the away labourers . ] _STo crept pleasan about t sound as sad of and labour down , no - doand

    this heart it was as that their made master the , there calamity was so nothin terrible g- for An them Eng to lishman ,

    . w half as forgets a reat an evil irremediable in the pleasure misfor of t battling unethat wi fell th it as , but heavil her y e

    g , cou on l th d e do energe nothin tic but as th onl e idle wait , . a misfortune under which men

    I iall g remember y fine iece of wheat u The Six m Acres on the espec " 1 f we st them of called y Sep surrounded tember it . It there was by littl stood reaped e pools the p on damp the of water 1 mildewed st of . August , sheaves , and ,

    an "It y o won't be worth carrying , " said my father , _" the whole

    crop is spoilt . "

    388 A Well-Authenticated Ghost Stoby.

    388 A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STOBY .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 388, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/28/