LEGENDS of LONGDENDALE
Reading edition
Being a Series of Tales Founded upon the Folk-lore of Longdendale Valley and its Neighbourhood.
BY THOMAS MIDDLETON, Author of “Annals of Hyde,” “Old Godley,” etc., etc.
Should you ask me whence these stories? Whence these Legends and Traditions? ******* I should answer, I should tell you, I repeat them as I heard them From the lips of Nawadaha, The musician, the sweet singer. Should you ask where Nawadaha Found these songs so wild and wayward, Found these legends and traditions, I should answer, I should tell you, In the bird’s nest of the forest. ******* All the wild fowl sang them to him, In the moorlands and the fenlands, In the melancholy marshes. ******* In the Vale of Tawasentha, In the green and silent valley.—(Longfellow).
Hyde Fred Higham, Printer and Bookbinder, “Cheshire Post” Office, Clarendon Press. mcmvi.