south-countrymen

Updated: May 13, 2025

As a rule our Lancashire peasants are not sentimental; in fact, degenerate south-countrymen frequently take exception to their blunt ways and terrible plain-speaking. But occasionally they display an astonishing impressibility, and at all times know how to appreciate a bit of romance.

M.E. (Mrs. Francis Blundell) Francis - North, South and over the Sea