Sabine Baring-Gould 
In a Quiet Village 
Heart Warming Stories for Christmas Time

In a Quiet Village is a short story collection by Sabine Baring-Gould. Baring-Gould was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1, 240 publications, though this list continues to grow. His family home, the manor house of Lew Trenchard, near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is now a hotel. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’, ‘Sing Lullaby’, and ‘Now the Day Is Over’. He also translated the carol ‘Gabriel’s Message’ from the Basque language to English. Contents:
Dan’l Coombe
Timothy Slouch
Doble Drewe
Mary Trembath
The Old Post-boy
Auntie
Brother Augustine
Haroun the Carpenter
Shone Evans
Henry Frost
Milk-maids
The Bride’s Well
Jack Hannaford
From Death to Life
Cicely Crowe
The Weathercock
A Plum-Pudding
A Christmas Tree
Folk-prayers
Crazy Jane

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Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1, 240 publications, though this list continues to grow. His family home, the manor house of Lew Trenchard, near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is now a hotel. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’, ‘Sing Lullaby’, and ‘Now the Day Is Over’. He also translated the carol ‘Gabriel’s Message’ from the Basque language to English.