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How To Use, The Lancashire Dialect, The Story Of Elijah

and Asenath Holt. Elijah Holt is the village " clogger,"—i.e., the maker and mender of clogs. (There is a specially good passage in which the shrewd old man makes guesses about......

Or Even Account, Of This Story. When We Have Said

that it is a very cleverly contrived surprise, we have gone quite as far as is permitted by justice to the author, whose ingenuity would miss its reward by any revelation of his......

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