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XII.—MY GREAT AUNT POLLY'S ELOPEMENT. + ...
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babl Dear y be Reader declared .—The by ...
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Xii.—My Great Aunt Polly's Elopement. + ...
XII . —MY GREAT AUNT POLLY'S ELOPEMENT . _+ _^— -
Babl Dear Y Be Reader Declared .—The By ...
babl Dear y be Reader declared . —The by thee story to which be impossible I am about , unnatural to tell ; thee nevertheless will pro- ,
as it really happened , perhaps thou wilt on that score condescend to waive In the thy year objection of grace and 1753 listen my . . great-grandfather ancient was a substantial l
as that mercer its King name in the Lud imp county lies himself , of town Eoman had of a Burchester foundation fortress on . ; nay the This , adjacent it is quite p hill ace possibl while was e ,
yet authentic our British mention ancestors of Burchester ignored concerns the Roman a Thracian toga ; leg but ion the "which first of barbarian
and was imperial quartered here ; , — and to - be which seen left in tokens the Burchester alike Museum , industry ticketed
sway as " the en g the ift of Ro P m eter ans Wilkins left their , Esq fortifications . " , their charming little of civilization
villastheir handsome roadsand the tide a corrupt the ebbed sharp , back breeze upon from the mother the north , country , Burchester , there to fell be up swep on t evil away days by ,
form town Saxons in ever g of for every stood some degree the centuries sieges , so , that a and nice it the littl is a the assaults e marvel bone , of and how contention the the of poor nocturnal headless among little
bodies surprises and , and bodiless the mid heads -day burnings and all the , other hoisting amiable up passe temps whereof William of Burchester , relates the delightful detail in his black fevers
black letter chronicle;—to say nothing of plagues , , But dancin Burchester g manias , pulled witch throug trials , h and somehow such , other got over minor the occurrences wars of the . establishments
Roses and the destruction of the monastic ; was better expecte of d treated , all seeing the b saints y that Oliver he and is Cromwell monumental well known than fi to gures have coul in d tweaked all reasonabl the off parish y the be
noses pretty churches much of Eng what land the , and delinquent to have cat been is to to the the household kingdom , at namel large y ,
the breaker of everything which nobody else has touched . Finally , with the accession of the House of Hanover , Burchester began to iuof liness
follow more gable the prevalent ends , ston fashion e fountains town , and , set and adore market substantial the gen crosses s red for -ug brick Burchester houses . No .
Instead of these , the good up with hi illar gh roofs sunder and green which doors was ; held a hideous the vegetable town-hall market supported ; and on a
a new open new inn p sign in , p disp lace lay of ing the the ancient fat hostelri physiogn e om of y Chaucer of the ' s Elector date , and of
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/32/
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