Excerpt from Luke Barnicott: And Other Stories Near this mill, Ives's mill, there is another hamlet call Marlpool, as though people could live in a pool, but it called Marlpool, as a kettle is said to boil when only i water boils in it, because it stands on the edge of a gri pool almost amounting to a lake, where marl formerly v dug, and which has for years been filled with water. 'i colliers living there call it the eighth wonder of the wor because they think it wonderful that a pool should sta on the top of a hill, though that is no wonder at all, but seen in all quarters of the world. But the colliers th' are a simple race, that do not travel much out of their 0' district, and so have the pleasure of wondering at ma things that to us, being familiar, give no pleasure. So is that we pay always something for our knowledge 3 a the widow Barnicott who lived on this hill near Ives's m at the latter end of the time we are going to talk of, w to congratulate herself when her memory failed with a, that it was rather an advantage, because, she said, eve thing that she heard was quite new again. 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.