Excerpt from Brief Romances From Bristol History, With a Few Other Papers From the Same Pen: Being Cuttings From the Columns of the "Bristol Times," Felix Earley's Bristol Journal," and the "Bristol Times and Mirror," During a Series of Extending From 1839 to 1883 Early on a fine summer morning, three horsemen rode over the hill by this same pathway, and paused for a moment to glance down on the tower of St. Augustine's. The first, who was a grave-looking man, wearing a small velvet cap and long cloak of dark cloth with sleeves, seemed in the light of master towards the other two, who always addressed him with an air of deference. 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.