AN UMBRELLA SCENE.
Edale is a primitive seclusion in the midmost depths of ‘‘The Peak, m Derbyshire. The inhabitants are all of the roughest typo, and keep as much as possible out of the sight of strangois. A story is told of one of them who, some 50 years ago, was so adventurous as to make a journey to Sheffield, about 20 miles distant. When he sot oil to return it was raining hard, and his host lent him an umbrella—opening it himself in order to save his friend all possible trouble. A fortnight afterwards this man of Edale was to return in the finest possible weather, but with the umbrella still up, “ Why,” ho oxplained, “ we bad a peck o’ troubles
wi’nn. There wasn’t a door-way in the village wo could get’un throtrgh, so we tethered ’an in a field.” The mystery of opening and shutting an umbrella, which was thereupon explained to the simple man, has not, it is believed, been lost to the inhabitants of Edale since.—“ Yorkshire Post,”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3321, 23 November 1883, Page 3
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172AN UMBRELLA SCENE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 3321, 23 November 1883, Page 3
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