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A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STOBY. 389
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The Wet Harvest-Season Of 1852 Must Have...
u Surely , " mamma ventured to say , cc some will be saved _; would the " wind Don had do 't been even wonders talk now brou nonsense . may At ht the sprin , Mary worst in g , up a " , you was farm , and can th -house a e few kiln imp h - dry t ours ient your would o rep f sunsh wheat ly know ; " ine if . "
better you . Look there g ! " up he flung on the you table a bunch of well wheat aw ears are wi tha th t spears these wer as l ong the as wors my t fin specim gers . M y mo could k ther p t ick hat ,
it no bu sometimes t t she having would , as eases not my a irritate f man ather to said him exagg , - been b erate y say brou his ing g misfo ht so , up as rtunes in she a farm ; besides , she ,
could not speak authoritatively . believe Until no her more marria ac g tive e , rn or y mo efficient ther h farm ad b er ' s wife a governess existed , yet the I had
whole country . Besides performing her other duties ,, she F educa rench ted , and my she sist b egan and now mys to elf h i t mpress , she had be upon called tau us gh th t us e necessi music to follow ty and of *
her exert former ing ourselves vocation , as . we _N " mi t g the leas soon t sorrowful upon t of this sorrowful time to uswas the constantly increasing par fear that , tht arriet and should
have this necessi to leave ty our woul home d soon which occur we , and loved a as H fervently as I country peop This le do attachmen love the t homes was , of tire their lth youth e resul and t of childhood earland . leasant y p
It association was a comfortable ; for in itself -looking no place y farm coul -house d be , with well rather less attractive tumble t - .
o fl down t anke her barn d w hils s t lar immedia g s heds orch t ard ely , be and hind si yard de , was an and the un dry tid ri y ck g g - arden g yard round in throug on fron the h ,
which , was a drive leading- through separate gates either , to the back or front door of the house .
Neither was the surrounding country at all picturesque . gentle would There streams were have indeed paused , and p pretty an leasant instant shad woods to y , l contemp b anes ut no , th and late ing nea w ; hi and t hed a my t g raveller erows father ,
could iC agricultural further sense add . in This its dispraise applied which , more that it s situ pec was i ated al very ly to at poor the his , north farm in-an ;
Grange Farm " it was called , was - at east the end other of our nearl large four parish miles , whilst " and Grange from House its similarit Farm" y lay of away
a there estate nam gentleman e , was was possessed no often , of likeness wealth confounded a y fine . and mansion " Grange consideration with , and ours , House was . named Yet in Farm , the ex Clarke " occupation pt was in . a nam -fine of e , little in
parish the The nei Cl g church hbourhood arkes , — but there , attended they was did a large instead not famil even , a y more — frequentl visited fashionable y but attend pl the ace .
A Well-Authenticated Ghost Stoby. 389
A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST _STOBY . _389
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 389, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/29/
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