Excerpt from With the Woodlanders and by the Tide Woodland folk-lore is fast dying out: very little will be left to us after another quarter Of a century has elapsed. The Older folks now rarely speak Openly about those matters which formed common topics of conversation forty years ago in our wood land districts. Indeed their sons and daughters profess to laugh at the superstitions (sic) in which their parents still firmly believe. But their ridicule is really affected: their actions constantly prove them to be firm believers, in Spite of themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.