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"Mills very seldom operated on the Sabbath, but the story goes that on one Sunday after a long period of calm, the wind sprang up while the congregation was in church. The minister closed his Bible and announced: 'Brethren, the meeting is dismissed. Miller, go to your mill." It was customary for the minister’s grain to take precedence over the others, and apparently his meal barrel was about empty." (from "Lore of Mills and Millers" by Andrus T. Valentine)
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The New York Folklore Quarterly was published 1946-1974. Back issues are still available.

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NEW YORK FOLKLORE QUARTERLY
Vol. XV, No. 4, Winter, 1959
CONTENTS

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President’s Page
Marvin A. Rapp		 242

An Old-Time Teller of Tales
Jared van Wagenen, Jr.		 243

Moore’s St. Nick: Model and Motif
Robert H. Woodward		 251

Lore of Mills and Millers
Andrus T. Valentine		 255

Notes for a Yorker Dictionary of Canalese
Lionel D. Wyld		 264

Funeral Customs in Colonial New York
Kenneth Scott		 274

American Frontier Humor in Melville’s Typee
Bartlett C. Jones		 283

The Prindle Vendue
Gertrude W. Seaman		 289

FOR YOUNGER READERS		    

One for the Birds
Lewis A. Ondis		 291

DEPARTMENTS		    

Upstate, Downstate
B. A. Botkin and
William G. Tyrrell		 297

The Editor’s Bookshelf
 		 307

Contributors		   311

Index for Volume XV
Helen A. Fraser		 312

Postscript		   320


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