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Historical Notes of Haydon Bridge and District
Historical Notes of Haydon Bridge and District Author:William Lee General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1876 Original Publisher: Herald Office Subjects: Northumberland (England) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access ... more »to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE LAND'S END BOGLE. By A. T. " I know not how the truth may be, I tell the tale as told to me." -- Scott. With this salve to my conscience I here proceed to relate one of those singular and unaccountable events which at one time disturbed the quiet of village life, and gave a zest to the gossip and tittle-tattle inherent to a state of society which may be characterised as dull and monotonous in the extreme ; a fair day or a dancing being the only divergencies from the plodding routine of agricultural communities. It was in the autumn of 18 -- that I first became acquainted with the quiet village of Haydon Bridge, my occupation having called me to that part of the country. There have been many improvements in the village since I first knew it. The railway has broken its quietude, and gas has illuminated its streets at nights, and smutty-looking dips have disappeared from the tables of the inns, while there are other evidences that Haydon Bridge has a wish to keep pace with the times. At the period I speak of, and even yet, a lot of us generally gathered at the Bridge End to contemplate the arrival and departure of either biped or quadruped, and of the mail coach. At that time there was a sort of " free and easy " debating society at the Bridge End, the terms of admission being sn acquaintance with some of the natives or a short probation at work in the village. The bump of curiosity was very largely developed in that assembly, I can assure you, whilst the imaginative faculty had full exercise; indeed the higher degree of excell...« less