Sunday, March 07, 2010

21Aug1871, Cheerful Old Couple

BOLTON, Monday, August 21st, 1871.
—Saw the dear old Jenkinson couple, who always remind me of the "Hampshire Cottage"—the old man bent stiff and double, the old woman entirely crippled and helpless with rheumatism, but both cheerful and wrapt up in each other.

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