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and surroundings, of which it is a faithful and beautiful picture. 

 From a considerable acquaintance with Edwin Waugh's writings, I 

 have observed that in his prose sketches, wherever his references 

 to Rossendale occur, they are in his choicest pieces. The very 

 mention of the name seems to open up within his mind a fine vein 

 of poetic inspiration which is reflected on the page. For example, 

 in "Dulesgate," and in "The Old Fiddler," to which I have 

 already referred, in his "Letters written during the Cotton Famine," 

 where he speaks of the " Deighn Layrocks," in the " Barrel Organ," 

 and in others. 



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