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CHAPTER XVI. 



THE FOLK-LORE AND PROVINCIALISMS. 



Anderwood Corner. 



Intimately bound up with the race are of course the folk-lore 

 of a district, and what we are now pleased to call provincialisms, 

 but which are more properly nationalisms, showing us the real 

 texture of our language ; and in every way preferable to the 



