Story IN THREE BOOKS. BY RICHARD JEFFERIES. "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, TINSLEY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND. 1877. [Right of Translation reserved by the Author.] 251. L. 956 WORLD'S END. BOOK PERSONS. II. CHAPTER I. ORTY-THREE miles as the crow flies, south of Stirmingham, there stands upon the lonely Downs a solitary, lichen-grown post, originally intended to direct wayfarers upon those trackless wastes. In winter, when the herbage, always short, was shortest, and when the ground was softened by rain, there might be detected the ruts left by waggon wheels crossing each other in various directions; VOL. II. 1 |