T.Miller (1855)
Source:
Thomas Miller (Auth.)
THE YEAR-BOOK OF COUNTRY LIFE
London: Houlston and Stoneman; Wm. S. Orr and Co., 1855, pp.7-10
A long account of plough trailing on Plough Monday, first published in T.Miller (1849) q.v.
It seems likely that "John Granby" (1953) quoted from this book, but misidentified it as
Miller's "Country Year Book" (1847 & 1856), which does not mention Plough Monday.
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January, with its short days, and long nights, though it still
comes as of old, with frost, and snow, and cold, and darkness
brings with it once a-year its merry Plough Monday; and in a few
out-of-the-way country places the village street is all astir
with the
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