Penhallow Tales (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Penhallow Tales

Old Sally Waters Sitting in the sun, Crying and weeping For a young man!

On stormy days, shutting herself into her bedroom, she would look over the contents of a battered little blue-painted chest that stood by the head of her bed, and which she guarded with jealous care: her treasure probably charms against the Witches that haunted her - was in the form of hundreds of knotted woollen rags that had been torn from her gown, and which contained cuttings of her nails. She had taken the most singu lar and unfortunate fancy to me, greeting me on my home-coming, a week before, with the words.

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