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Ben O'Bill's, The Luddite
Henry Walker
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D. F. E. Sykes LL B.
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Ben O'Bill's, The Luddite - Walker, Henry ; Sykes LL B., D. F. E.
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Synopsis "Ben O'Bill's, The Luddite"
IT HURTS me sore that folk in these days should so little understand the doings of us Luddites. To hear young people talk, the Luddites were miscreants that well, deserved the hanging they got-a set of idle, dissolute knaves and cut-throats the country was well rid of. Nay, worse, many young lads with a college learning seem to know next to nothing about them, and talk as though all great deeds were done in far-of parts, and as though of heroes and martyrs England has none to show. I am little apt at writing, and my hand is stiff and cramped with years. But my memory is good still, and I can remember better the things of fifty years ago than those of yesterday. So, before hand and mind fail me altogether, I will set on record all I call mind of those memorable days
