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Title: Th' History o' Haworth Railway
fra' th' beginnin' to th' end, wi' an ackaant o' th' oppnin' serrimony

Author: Bill o'th' Hoylus End

Release Date: January 20, 2009 [eBook #27849]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TH' HISTORY O' HAWORTH RAILWAY***

Transcribed from the 1902 (10th edition) by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Local Studies, Bradford Central
Library, for allowing their copy of the pamphlet to be transcribed.

[Picture: Pamphlet cover]

TENTH EDITION.

[Picture: Decorative divider]

Th' HISTORY o'
HAWORTH RAILWAY
FRA' TH'
BEGINNIN' TO TH' END,
WI' AN ACKAANT O' TH'
OPPNIN' SERRIMONY.

--o--

Bi Bill o'th' Hoylus End.

[Picture: Decorative image of a cow]

On hearing this, the Haworth foalk
Began to think it wor no joak,
An' wisht' at greedy kaa ma' choak,
'At swallowed th' plan o'th railway.

PRICE ONE PENNY.

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KEIGHLEY:

BILLOWS & CO., PRINTERS & BOOKBINDERS, 16, HIGH ST.

1902
Telephone No. 224

PREFACE TO THE TENTH EDITION.

The Author of this well-known, amusing, and celebrated pamphlet was born
on the 22nd March, 1836, at a place midway between Keighley and Haworth,
called Hoylus End in a simple cottage near the Whins Delf, at the
terminus of the quaint old hamlet known as Hermit Hole, in the Parish of
Bingley. He began early in life to write songs and uncouth rhymes, and
even as a boy He wrote satires so caustic that they are remembered even
to the present day.

However, the Haworth Railway cropped up, and this f