A SLEEPY HOLLOW.
An odd account iti given of a village within seven miles of Plymouth, England, with a population of nearly a thousand. Newspapers are not delivered until thirtyfour hours after they are printed, and the delivery of letters is of a very meagre kind. This obliges the Inhabitants to resort to all sorts of shifts to obtain a bit of news. Interesting items are scribbled on pieces of paper by those who travel from Plymouth to Yealhampton, and these are pushed under' the doors of leading inhabitants, who communicate the contents' to their neighbours. The Vicar, who receives £4§o'a yea*, has long been practically past active work, and was not particularly active when he had health, services are conducted in a fashion on Sunday mornings and afternoons, yet they 1 are 6fStt6h a kind that few beyond the Vicar' ri household attend. The vicar 'knows to little of Ins parishioners that quite recently he directed that some clothing should be sent" from a local charity to a man whom he had buried "fofor years ago.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2200, 14 August 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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177A SLEEPY HOLLOW. Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2200, 14 August 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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