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Excerpt from Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Vol. 1 of 2
The Old Lincolnshire, so often mentioned in these simple pieces, and endeared to the writer of them by the associations of thirty years of his life, is likely soon to disappear before the social changes of that New Lincolnshire which railway civilis ation will summon into existence would that the manufacturing-misery of the modern Leicestershire, outlined in two or three uncoloured and painfully veritable pictures, might, as speedily, evanish! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
