(CLEVELAND) AS IT WAS SEVENTY YEARS AGO BY F. H. MORGAN, RECTOR OF GISBOROUGH. ALCA DEC 1881 BODLEIANA GRIFFITH & FARRAN, SUCCESSORS TO NEWBERY AND HARRIS, WEST CORNER, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, LONDON. PREFACE. under the identified. HIS story is based upon the recollections gathered from various persons in the districts. The places assumed names can easily be The characters are not taken from actual persons, nor are the incidents actual history. But the evil effects of the smuggling and its demoralization of all classes are true facts, and from this day evils can be traced back to the smuggling habits. The variation of the dialects may be observed, but the writer has often noticed that Cleveland folk vary their dialects according to the person they address, especially when they are persons of |