The Maid of Sker
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Blackmore Richard Doddridge. The Maid of Sker
CHAPTER I. FISHERMAN DAVY A FISH OUT OF WATER
CHAPTER II. HUNGER DRIVES HIM A-FISHING
CHAPTER III. THE FISH ARE AS HUNGRY AS HE IS
CHAPTER IV. HE LANDS AN UNEXPECTED FISH
CHAPTER V. A LITTLE ORPHAN MERMAID
CHAPTER VI. FINDS A HOME OF SOME SORT
CHAPTER VII. BOAT VERSUS BARDIE
CHAPTER VIII. CHILDREN WILL BE CHILDREN
CHAPTER IX. SANDHILLS TURNED TO SAND-HOLES
CHAPTER X. UNDER THE ROCK
CHAPTER XI. A WRECKER WRECKED
CHAPTER XII. HOW TO SELL FISH
CHAPTER XIII. THE CORONER AND THE CORONET
CHAPTER XIV. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EVIDENCE
CHAPTER XV. A VERDICT ON THE JURY
CHAPTER XVI. TRUTH LIES SOMETIMES IN A WELL
CHAPTER XVII. FOR A LITTLE CHANGE OF AIR
CHAPTER XVIII. PUBLIC APPROBATION
CHAPTER XIX. A CRAFT BEYOND THE LAW
CHAPTER XX. CONFIDENTIAL INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER XXI. CROSS-EXAMINATION
CHAPTER XXII. ANOTHER DISAPPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XXIII. INTO GOOD SOCIETY
CHAPTER XXIV. SOUND INVESTMENTS
CHAPTER XXV. A LONG GOOD-BYE
CHAPTER XXVI. BRAUNTON BURROWS
CHAPTER XXVII. A FINE SPECTACLE
CHAPTER XXVIII. SOMETHING ABOUT HIM
CHAPTER XXIX. A VISIT TO A PARSON
CHAPTER XXX. ON DUTY
CHAPTER XXXI. TWO LOVERS
CHAPTER XXXII. AMONG THE SAVAGES
CHAPTER XXXIII. IN A STATE OF NATURE
CHAPTER XXXIV. WAITING AND LEARNING
CHAPTER XXXV. THE POLITE FERRYMAN
CHAPTER XXXVI. UNDER FAIRER AUSPICES
CHAPTER XXXVII. TWO POOR CHILDREN
CHAPTER XXXVIII. A FINE OLD GENTLEMAN
CHAPTER XXXIX. NOTICE TO QUIT
CHAPTER XL. FORCIBLE EJECTMENT
CHAPTER XLI. THE RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE
CHAPTER XLII. THE LITTLE MAID, AND THE MIDSHIPMAN
CHAPTER XLIII. A FINE PRICE FOR BARDIE
CHAPTER XLIV. PROVIDES FOR EDUCATION
CHAPTER XLV. INTRODUCES A REAL HERO
CHAPTER XLVI. AFTER SEVEN YEARS
CHAPTER XLVII. MISCHIEF IN A HOUSEHOLD
CHAPTER XLVIII. A BREATHLESS DISINTERMENT
CHAPTER XLIX. ONE WHO HAS INTERRED HIMSELF
CHAPTER L. A BRAVE MAN RUNS AWAY
CHAPTER LI. TRIPLE EDUCATION
CHAPTER LII. GREAT MARCH OF INTELLECT
CHAPTER LIII. BEATING UP FOR THE NAVY
CHAPTER LIV. TAMING OF THE SAVAGES
CHAPTER LV. UPON FOREIGN SERVICE
CHAPTER LVI. EXILES OF SOCIETY
CHAPTER LVII. MANY WEAK MOMENTS
CHAPTER LVIII. MORE HASTE, LESS SPEED
CHAPTER LIX. IN A ROCKY BOWER
CHAPTER LX. NELSON AND THE NILE
CHAPTER LXI. A SAVAGE DEED
CHAPTER LXII. A RASH YOUNG CAPTAIN
CHAPTER LXIII. POLLY AT HOME
CHAPTER LXIV. SUSAN QUITE ACQUITS HERSELF
CHAPTER LXV. SO DOES POOR OLD DAVY
CHAPTER LXVI. THE MAID AT LAST IS "DENTIFIED."
CHAPTER LXVII. DOG EATS DOG
CHAPTER LXVIII. THE OLD PITCHER AT THE WELL AGAIN
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In the summer of the year 1782, I, David Llewellyn, of Newton-Nottage, fisherman and old sailor, was in great distress and trouble, more than I like to tell you. My dear wife (a faithful partner for eight-and-twenty years, in spite of a very quick temper) was lately gone to a better world; and I missed her tongue and her sharp look-out at almost every corner. Also my son (as fine a seaman as ever went aloft), after helping Lord Rodney to his great victory over Grass the Frenchman, had been lost in a prize-ship called the Tonner, of 54 guns and 50 °Crappos, which sank with all hands on her way home to Spithead, under Admiral Graves. His young wife (who had been sent to us to see to, with his blessing) no sooner heard of this sad affair as in the Gazette reported, and his pay that week stopped on her, but she fell into untimely travail, and was dead ere morning. So I buried my wife and daughter-in-law, and lost all chance to bury my son, between two Bridgend market-days.
Now this is not very much, of course, compared with the troubles some people have. But I had not been used to this matter, except in case of a messmate; and so I was greatly broken down, and found my eyes so weak of a morning, that I would not be seen out of doors, almost.
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However, while she had her cry out (as the tide would never wait), I took the liberty of stowing all my fish and fishing-tackle on board of that handy little boat, which I began to admire and long for more and more every time I jumped from the rock into her foresheets. And finding how tight and crank she was, and full of spring at every step and with a pair of good ash sculls, and, most of all, discovering the snuggest of snug lockers, my conscience (always a foremost feature) showed me in the strongest light that it would be a deeply ungracious, ungrateful, and even sinful thing, if I failed to thank an ever wise and overruling Providence for sending me this useful gift in so express a manner.
And taking this pious and humble view of the night's occurrence, I soon perceived a special fitness in the time of its ordering. For it happened to be the very night when Evan Thomas was out of the way, as I had been told at Nottage, and the steward of the manor safe to be as drunk as a fiddler at Bridgend; and it was not more than a few months since that envious Scotchman, Sandy Macraw (a scurvy limb of the coastguards, who lived by poaching on my born rights), had set himself up with a boat, forsooth, on purpose to rogue me and rob me the better. No doubt he had stolen it somewhere, for he first appeared at night with it; and now here was a boat, in all honesty mine, which would travel two feet for each one of his tub!
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