Old Schuylkill Tales

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Those who have attempted to merge general historical facts with local incidents know what difficulty is encountered in pre serving a consecutive chronological arrangement of the events. The consequent irrelevant lapses that will occur in the embodi ment of such history and narratives, the latter of which, to assume an attractive and readable form, must necessarily be dressed in a style resembling, more or less. Fiction. It should, however, be borne in mind that truth is stranger than fiction and that the rich vein of folk lore in Schuylkill Countv has not yet been sounded to its depths, there are still rich treasures to unearth.