Mrs. Botherby's Story: The Leech of Folkestone
Meanwhile Master Thomas Marsh and his man Ralph were threading the devious paths—then, as now, most pseudonymously dignified with the name of roads—that wound between Marston Hall and the frontier of Romney Marsh. Their progress was comparatively slow; for, though the brown mare was as...
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Meanwhile Master Thomas Marsh and his man Ralph were threading the devious paths—then, as now, most pseudonymously dignified with the name of roads—that wound between Marston Hall and the frontier of Romney Marsh. Their progress was comparatively slow; for, though the brown mare was as good a roadster as a man might back and the gelding no mean nag of his hands, yet the tracks, rarely traversed save by the rude wains of the day,miry in the 'bottoms,' and covered with loose and rolling stones on the higher grounds, rendered barely passable the perpetual alternation of hill and valley.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781419135729 (1419135724)
Publish date: June 1st 2004
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Pages no: 48
Edition language: English
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Nicholas Murchie and Lucy Robinson read from a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, but actually penned by the Rev Richard Barham, first published in book form in 1840. In the depths of Romney Marsh, an avaricious woman, b...
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