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story. I found an old woman, a widow named Garnett, 

 an elder sister of the woman at Wolmer Forest. She 

 is eighty years old, but was not born until a year 

 or two after the " Selborne mob " events, which fixes 

 the date of that outbreak about the year 1820. She 

 has a brother, now in a workhouse, about two years 

 older than herself, who was a babe in arms at that 

 time. When Newland was at last captured and sent 

 to Winchester, his poor wife, with her baby in her 

 arms, set out on foot to visit him in gaol. It was a 

 long tramp for her thus burdened, and it was also 

 in the depth of one of the coldest winters ever known. 

 She started early, but did not get to her destination 

 until the following morning, and not without suffer- 

 ing a fresh misfortune by the way. Before dawn, 

 when the cold was most intense, while walking over 

 Winchester Hill, her baby's nose was frozen; and 

 though everything proper was done when she arrived 

 at the houses, it never got quite right. His injured 

 nose, which turns to a dark-blue colour and causes 

 him great suffering in cold weather, has been a trouble 

 and misery to him all his life long. 



Newland, we know, was forgiven and returned to 

 spend the rest of his life in his village, where he died at 

 last of sheer old age, passing very quietly away after 

 receiving the sacrament from the vicar, and in the 

 presence of his faithful old wife and his children and 

 grandchildren. 



After he was dead, two of his children my informant, 



