The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance

CHAPTER I. THE CITY OF WYTHBURN.

Tar-ry woo', tar-ry woo', Tar-ry woo' is ill to spin: Card it weel, card it weel, Card it weel ere you begin. _Old Ballad._

The city of Wythburn stood in a narrow valley at the foot of Lauvellen, and at the head of Bracken Water. It was a little but populous village, inhabited chiefly by sheep farmers, whose flocks grazed on ...