Produced by MFR, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: CONISTONE HALL.] The Old Man; OR RAVINGS AND RAMBLINGS ROUND CONISTONE. I MAY SPEAK OF THEE AS THE TRAVELLER DOTH OF VENICE: ——VINEGIA, VINEGIA, CHI NON TE VEDE, EI NON TE PREGIA. —_Love’s Labour’s Lost._ LONDON: WHITTAKER AND CO. KENDAL: J. HUDSON. 1849. Transcriber's Notes Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation, spelling and punctuation remain unchanged except where there is conflict with the index. In the original the side notes appear at the head of each page. Most have been moved to the beginning of a proximate paragraph. In cases where paragraphs are several pages long, they remain embedded in the text. The errata have been implemented. Italics are represented thus _italic_. INDEX. PAGE. Ancient Forests, Remarks upon, 38 Anecdote from Mr Wordsworth, 49 ———— Curious Chronological, 84 ———— of a Hairy Trout, 107 ———— of deaths in a Slate Quarry, 108 ———— of Fox-craft, 27 ———— of New Ale, 33 ———— of Jenkin Syke, 84 ———— of “Kibble filling”, 97 ———— of Lieut. Oldfield, R.N., 85 ———— of Mrs Robinson, 81 ———— of Parson Walker’s Economy, 54 ———— of Ravens, 100 ———— of Simon’ Nick, 101 ———— of the Church Beck, 82 ———— of the Name of Tyson, 45 ———— of the Rev. E. Tyson, 64 ———— of Wordsworth’s Duddon, 43 Anderson, Robert, quoted, 55 Archives, Parochial, 111 Bannockstone Bridge, 74 Betty Yewdale, 144