Tales of Terror and Mystery

Armstrong Fragment was found in the field which is called Lower Haycock lying one mile to the westward of the village of Withyham upon the Kent and Sussex border. It was on the 15th September last that an agricultural labourer James Flynn in the employment of Mathew Dodd farmer of the Chauntry Farm Withyham perceived a briar pipe lying near the footpath which skirts the hedge in Lower Haycock. A few paces farther on he picked up a pair of broken binocular glasses. Finally among some nettles in the ditch he caught sight of a flat canvas-backed book which proved to be a note-book with detachable leaves some of which had come loose and were fluttering along the base of the hedge.