Excerpt from Beckside Lights The Clogger was the chief official at the chapel, and, being of a somewhat self-assertive disposition, he had become in course of time the ruling spirit of the village. Long Ben, a tall, bony, mild-tempered carpenter, was his lieutenant. And Sam Speck, a small-featured man living on a small annuity, acted as hench man to both. Besides these there were Lige the road-mender, Jonas Tatlock the choir master, Nathan the smith, and Jethro the knocker-up. These worthies resorted to the Clog Shop at all convenient times, and there discussed such topics as the life of the village provided. And it is these conversations and the circumstances connected with them which are here detailed. The dialect is that spoken in the neighbourhood of Bolton. 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.