Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Popular Traditions of Lancashire, Vol. 2 of 3
Eventide was then drawing on, but the falcon had not been loosed to the game; the usual tokens of success were wanting - 110 torn and bloody carcasses announced an abun dant sport.
Two or three of the brethren were sitting on a bench in the gateway. In passing by, the foremost of the strangers hastily addressed his follower.
Ralph Newcome, plague on thee hast thou had another call at the wallet? Thou guzzling tinder-throat, thy drouth is never slaked 1.
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