The New Forest: its History and its Scenery.
CHAPTER XVI.
THE FOLK-LORE AND PROVINCIALISMS.
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Intimately bound up with the race are of course the folk-lore of a district, and what we are now pleased to call provincialisms, but which are more properly nationalisms, showing us the real texture of our language; and in every way preferable to the
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