The Pottleton Legacy

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Excerpt from The Pottleton Legacy: A Story of Town and Country Life About fifty miles from town, taking a somewhat westerly direction, there is a little village, which has generally been considered so very unimportant a place, that it has not found its way into any gazetteer, nor, indeed, can the most microscopic eye discover its name in the county map. It has even been accounted too out-of-the-way a spot to be published as the abode of any patient marvellously cured by a patent medicine. In fact, until very lately, nobody was known who had ever been there, except the candidates for the shire, on their canvassing expeditions preceding a contested election, the carrier, who met the mail on the high road, at the finger-post, some three miles away, and was also the postman, or the literary missionary, who left works in numbers at the farm-houses, whereof the gentle excitement was well sustained, by sewing up the most startling illustrations with the heavier reading, opposite remote parts of the story, which was an admirable notion, and very promotive of continued curiosity. This little village, then, which was called Pottleton - or Pot'ton, by popular rustic elision - was situated in a valley, along the centre of which ran a small stream, whose only mission was to turn a couple of mills, and then babble pleasantly through some rich meadows, spangled with water-lilies, and edged with round-headed pollards, until it tumbled over the lock of a canal near the high road. The valley ran from east to west, and so the village had the sun all day. 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.