QUEENHOO-HALL, A Romance: AND ANCIENT TIMES, A DRAMA. BY THE LATE JOSEPH STRUTT, AUTHOR OF RURAL SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF THE IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. IV. FOR EDINBURGH: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. JOHN MURRAY, FLEET-STREET, LONDON; AND ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO. EDINBURGH. 1808. QUEENHOO-HALL; BEING A HISTORY OF TIMES PAST. SECTION VIII-CONTINUED. CHAPTER IL. The Tale. ABOUT a century past, there lived at Hatfield a merry fellow, well known in this village, who followed the double occupation of a tailor and a barber. He was usually denominated the Little Tailor-and by that appellation, so please you, I will call him. He was much esteemed by his neighbours, not only on account of his skilfulness in his profession, but more especially for his mirthful VOL. IV. |