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Breaking a Spell Odd Craft, Part 6. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
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Title: Breaking A Spell
Odd Craft, Part 6.
Author: W.W. Jacobs
Release Date: April 29, 2004 [EBook #12206]
Language: English
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PART 6.
List of Illustrations
He Got 'imself Very Much Liked, Especially by the Old Ladies.
Mrs. Prince Was Sitting at 'er Front Door Nursing 'er Three Cats.
He Took It Round, and Everybody 'ad a Look at It.
She Sat Listening Quite Quiet at Fust.
The Doctor Felt 'is Pulse and Looked at 'is Tongue.
BREAKING A SPELL
Witchcraft?
said the old man, thoughtfully, as he scratched his scanty whiskers. No, I ain't heard o' none in these parts for a long time. There used to be a little of it about when I was a boy, and there was some talk of it arter I'd growed up, but Claybury folk never took much count of it. The last bit of it I remember was about forty years ago, and that wasn't so much witchcraft as foolishness.
There was a man in this place then—Joe Barlcomb by name—who was a firm believer in it, and 'e used to do all sorts of things to save hisself from it. He was a new-comer in Claybury, and there was such a lot of it about in the parts he came from that the people thought o' nothing else hardly.
He was a man as got 'imself very much liked at fust, especially by the old ladies, owing to his being so perlite to them, that they used to 'old 'im up for an example to the other men, and say wot nice, pretty ways he 'ad. Joe Barlcomb was everything at fust, but when they got to 'ear that his perliteness was because
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