April Fool
The winter of 1860 – 1861 was cold; cold enough, that on certain parts of the moor, deep snow restricted activity. Travel was limited and farmers were kept busy feeding their stock.
On some occasions, certain people claimed to have seen the bone riders, as they'd become known. But no one paid much heed to it any more.
About three times that winter the Vales had noticed snow pushed about near the old pigsty and what looked like hoof prints. Had the phantom boar been there during the night.
Finally, the month of March arrived and with it much improved weather. The snow melted, and early spring flowers poked their heads through the moorland turf. The various work and trade across the moor returned to normal.
Young Preston Stickles spent much of his time in boarding school. Boo
