Miss Farringdon's will

"The daughters of Philip

Cecil Farquhar

On the river

Little Willie

This side of the hills

George Farringdon's son

The other side of the hills

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THE FARRINGDONS

 CHAPTER I

THE OSIERFIELD

They herded not with soulless swine,

Nor let strange snares their path environ:

Their only pitfall was a mine—

Their pigs were made of iron.

In the middle of Sedgehill, which is in the middle of Mershire, which is in the middle of England, there lies a narrow ridge of high table-land, dividing, as by a straight line, the collieries and ironworks of the great coal district from the green and pleasant scenery of the western Midlands. Along the summit of this ridge runs the High Street of the bleak little town of Sedgehill; so that the houses on the east side of this street see nothing through their back windows save the huge slag-mounds and blazing furnaces and tall chimneys of 

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