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PREFATORY NOTICE.
time and pains, has compiled the voluminous index which accompanies this edition of my work.
The pages of the present edition have further been enriched by references to Napier’s Folk-Lore of the West of Scotland; Denny’s Folk-Lore of China; Dobson’s Rambles by the Ribble; and Yorkshire Oddities, by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould
It only remains for me to add, that I feel it impossible for me sufficiently to express my obligations to my relative, Miss Susanna Warren, for much valuable assistance rendered to the work; indeed, ours must be understood to have been a joint labour.
Ashford Court, Ludlow,
July 1879.
