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Title: Old Country Life

Author: S. Baring-Gould

Illustrator: F. D. Bedford

Francis Edward Masey

active 1883-1895 William Parkinson

Release date: March 18, 2015 [eBook #48522]

Language: English

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OLD COUNTRY LIFE.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

HISTORIC ODDITIES AND STRANGE EVENTS.
Demy 8vo, 10s. 6d.[Just published.

ARMINELL: A Social Romance.
3 vols., crown 8vo. [Now ready.

SONGS OF THE WEST; Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of Devon and Cornwall, with their Traditional Melodies, by Rev. S. Baring Gould, M.A., and Rev. H. Fleetwood Sheppard, M.A., arranged for voice and pianoforte. Parts I. and II., 3s. each, net. Parts III. and IV. in-preparation.

STRANGE SURVIVALS AND POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS.

[In Preparation.

YORKSHIRE ODDITIES.
New and Cheaper Edition. [In the Press.

A Country Dance.
Frontispiece.

OLD COUNTRY LIFE.

BY
S. BARING GOULD, M.A., AUTHOR OF
"MEHALAH," "JOHN HERRING," ETC.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY W. PARKINSON, F. D. BEDFORD, AND F. MASEY.

LONDON:
METHUEN AND CO., 18, BURY STREET, W.C.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company.
1890.

[The right of reproduction is reserved.]

Richard Clay & Sons, Limited,
London & Bungay.